Dead Elvis

Last weekend, I went to see Salt, the new action-thriller movie starring Angelina Jolie. No…

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Learning to fly

Joe Wikert, who works at O’Reilly Media, also authors a blog, Publishing 2020, which is…

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Making frenemies

Toward the end of the management class I teach at NYU’s M.S. in publishing program,…

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Beyond belief

After about a month of dancing, NewsCorp. announced at the end of June that it…

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It makes no sense

Because it would be easy enough to spend my waking hours critiquing the project methodology…

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Pirates’ wages

In the July 8 issue of Rolling Stone, correspondent Michael Hastings profiled General Stanley McChrystal,…

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Boom, like that

Across the street from where I work (and blog), an elementary school has been dismantled….

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Preserving formats

At the New York Times, Ashlee Vance recently reported on Ray Kurzweil’s efforts to bring…

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Another modest proposal

Earlier this year, Macmillan president Brian Napack outlined a seven-point plan to “stop piracy”. At…

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