News to Use 12.05.2007
Adobe’s New CEO Zeroes in on Web [USA Today]
Shantanu Narayen takes over as Adobe, best known for Photoshop, Acrobat and PDF digital document tools, is shifting many of its wares from boxed software to online services.
Amazon’s Kindle Won’t Spark Your e-Book Fire [Salon]
The retailer gets a lot right with its new reader. Too bad it’s so damned expensive. Now where did I see that op before?
Consumer Reports Surpasses 3,000,000 Online Subscriptions [Folio]
Consumer Reports magazine announced that its site has reached 3-million paid subscribers, a milestone for the company and for the Web at large.
New Year Not Looking Happy for Magazine Publishers [AdAge]
In this iffy economy, only titles that rely on luxury advertisers seem optimistic.
Online Comics are Vivid, But Will They Lure Fans? [LATimes]
Marvel’s bold move: It has taken thousands of its classic issues along with selected current titles and re-engineered them panel-by-panel to make them into something akin to a sleek Internet slide show.
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