Not like you wouldn’t have realized this already, but Industry in Progress is indefinitely on hold. I love doing this website and I want to thank everyone for all the positive feedback I’ve gotten, but right now in my life, it’s just very time consuming to keep up all on my own. Things might be [...]
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May 12, 2010
Industry in Progress is… in progress…
Hey! See how the site looks like crap right now? That’s because I’m currently redesigning the CSS. So just hang in there and hopefully in a week or so Industry in Progress will be back with a new look and *gasp* new posts! Thanks for your patience with the eyesore for now. *nyx
March 5, 2010
New NOT rumors about iPad release
Okay. So this isn’t technically publishing related, but since I posted all about the iPad rumors yesterday, it’s only fair that I write about the truths today. This morning Apple announced the iPad will be available in stores April 3. Pre-orders will be happening beginning March 12 both from the online store and for in-store [...]
March 3, 2010
New iPad rumors flying
After a relative lull in iPad rumors following the announcement of it’s existence in January, the rumor mill has started once again as people begin to speculate on release date and pre-orders. The latest round comes courtesy of MacRumors. Rumor 1 speculates a March 26 in-store release. So far there has been no word on [...]
March 2, 2010
Publishing math and the e-book
In case you missed it, click the little graph that rocked e-books consumer’s worlds, below (I told you I like graphs!), to read the New York Times article from Sunday, Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book. I didn’t want to summarize it because 1) I read numbers backwards. Thus I’m terrible at math and would [...]
March 2, 2010
2010: The year of the e-reader
After talking a lot recently about their other model, the DR-950, ASUS has officially announced it’s DR-900 e-reader. The reader boasts a 9-inch, seems to operate with touch interaction, and boasts a battery life that supposed lasts 10,000 pages on a single charge, but beyond that, it’s pretty standard (as an iPad competitor). WiFi, 3G [...]
March 2, 2010
More books than games in app store
In good news for Apple (is there every bad news for Apple?) they shouldn’t have any trouble getting people to buy books from the forthcoming iBooks, since, according to a recent study by MobClix, there are already more book apps than game apps in the regular app store (that was a lot of apps). Though [...]
March 2, 2010
Random House to set up in-house video game divison?
Apparently. Only the only article I’ve found about it so far is on the Wall Street Journal. And I can’t read it. Because pay wall. But then again, if you’ve read this at all before, you know how I feel about Rupert Murdoch. Whatever. I thought people might find it interesting. If YOU want to [...]
March 2, 2010
Macmillan CEO speaks on agency model, etc
There’s not really a good way for me to summarize this, but, in case you missed it, Macmillan CEO John Sargent addressed confusion over the agency model, Apple, availability, and so on, on the Macmillan Speaks blog yesterday. Check it out below. Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price After the [...]
