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  GenCon Interview: Jason Bulman, lead designer for the Pathfinder RPG

  2163 readersThe Pathfinder role-playing game was originally developed under the Open Gaming License as a “replacement” for D&D 3.5th edition after Hasbro announced it would no longer be supporting the game. Hasbro was changing over to its new, streamlined D&D 4th Edition rules, which suddenly left all the 3.5th-edition supplements its OGL had fomented without an

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  B2B publisher launches new digital trade publication; designs tablet edition and online flipbook in the form of a print magazine, right on down to the fonts and layouts

  1151 readersImagine for a minute that you have been given a task to create a sign for, say, a garage sale. You buy a giant piece of cardboard and a few magic markers and you give them to an artist. An hour later they come back and give you the sign: a giant piece of cardboard

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  The Hunger Games vs. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  1229 readersHaving read Suzanne Collin’s books makes watching the movie a better experience overall — something that is truly rare in Hollywood. By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-chief The odds are in its favor. On Saturday I was able to steal away a few hours to see The Hunger Games movie with my wife. Later that night, with our daughter finally asleep,

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  Magic Town – a virtual world based on popular picture book characters

  1418 readers  From the press release: What is Magic Town? Magic Town is the first virtual world based on popular picture book characters. As children explore the vibrant landscape and click on the houses, they’ll find stories, games and puzzles. The stories are presented as Livebooks™, our proprietary, interactive story format.   Why Use Magic Town?Reading captures children’s

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  Quick Note: Kindle Fire to ship one day early

  943 readersFrom the press release: Amazon.com today announced it is shipping Kindle Fire, already the bestselling item on Amazon.com, one day early. Kindle Fire offers more than 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, magazines, apps and games, as well as free storage of Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync for books and movies, a

• For Digital Publishers and Device Manufacturers, CES 2011 Was All About the Deal

  894 readersBy Hannah Johnson LAS VEGAS: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) concluded on Saturday with over 140,000 total visitors and 2,700 exhibitors representing a huge range of products and companies, from the largest technology giants like ...

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  Tablet Vs. Smartphones: INFOGRAPHIC

  114 readersWeb design company Plaveb has created an infographic called, “Tablet vs. Smartphone,” which explores adoption rates of different devices among the different genders and age groups. According to the graphic, games make up 39 percent of downloads on smartphones, while games make up 67 percent of the apps downloaded on tablets. We’ve embedded the entire infographic

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  26% of March Madness Viewers Watching Via Mobile Apps

  582 readersMBA@UNC has created an infographic called, “Marketing the Madness” which explores the advertising trends for the college basketball tournament known as March Madness. According to the graphic, 26 percent of fans used their mobile device as their primary viewing devices for the games. In addition, 69 percent of viewers used their mobile devices while watching the

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  University of Wisconsin Press picks up on ebooks

  1993 readersFrom an article in The Capital Times: “Level 7,” a science fiction book by Mordecai Roshwald about a post-apocalyptic dystopia published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1959, has gotten a new life in the present thanks to the Amazon Kindle. Krista Coulson, electronic publishing manager for the UW Press, says “Level 7” was

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  Hybrid publishing – RPG Games lead the way

  1637 readers  Virduk left a message on Clytie's Borders article: You know one thing I always wanted from retailers was bundling of an ebook code with the physical version. A bit like what happens with BluRay discs. There is one small segment that produces ...