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Apt Reading

We use Instapaper to remember to read good stuff on the web. We thought you might find some of it interesting too, so here it is.

Starred picks:

A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria

http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-real-web-design-application/

Daring Fireball: WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up

http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/wwdc_wrapup

Here Comes Clay Shirky

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/43565-here-comes-clay-shirky.html

Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie | Harvard Magazine Jul-Aug 2010

http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/07/fifteen-percent-of-immortality

Printable Antwerp guide

http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/printable-guide/belgium/antwerp

The World's Greatest Con Man: Helg Sgarbi: News + Politics: Details

http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/200909/the-worlds-greatest-con-man-helg-sgarbi?printable=true

Champlain College Publishing Initiative » Websites for Books: A Review

ever seen. The colors work together nicely and all, but honestly, they’re just boring. Pastel blues and greens definitely don’t stir excitement in my chest. Aside from what looks like the basic we. […]

http://www.champlaincollegepublishing.com/?p=629

What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness

http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=14609

How real? - Neven Mrgan's tumbl

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/441478284/how-real

How not to to negotiate for digital rights - BLOGOS

http://www.uponline.nl/blogos/?p=111

To read:

As the reborn Kindle proves, looks don't count for everything | Technology | Technology | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/29/kindle-ipad-ereaders-john-naughton

Poynter Online - Top Stories

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=188741

SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/

The royalty math: print, wholesale model, agency model – The Shatzkin Files

http://www.idealog.com/blog/the-royalty-math-print-wholesale-model-agency-model

One-Word Explanation of Why Enhanced E-Books Won’t Work | Publishing In the 21st Century

http://ereads.com/2010/07/one-word-explanation-of-why-enhanced-e-books-wont-work.html

My Life in Therapy - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08Psychoanalysis-t.html?pagewanted=all

Designing from one end to the other | Mark Boulton

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/designing-from-one-end-to-the-other

Book Publishing News: Global Children's Publishing Market to Reach $9.66 Billion by 2015

http://bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/global-childrens-publishing-market-to.html

Three new ebook platforms nearing their debut – The Shatzkin Files

http://www.idealog.com/blog/three-new-ebook-platforms-nearing-their-debut

Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever

ws a homeless alcoholic and talks with the hospital he is constantly in and out of and determines that the man costs them about a million dollars a year because he is uninsured.  Besides the fabulous. […]

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php

Archive:

Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law: Profiling, Targeting, Behavioural Advertising

http://laurencekaye.typepad.com/laurence_kayes_blog/2009/05/having-attended-a-very-interesting-forum-on-behavioural-targeting-social-networking-and-the-challenges-of-online-privacy-yes.html

What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

Amazon Launches Publishing Program - 5/14/2009 7:50:00 AM - Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6658267.html?desc=topstory

ongoing · Less Like Oration

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/25/Long-and-Short-Forms

Jean Touitou - Page 2 - Interview Magazine

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/jean-touitou/2/

Jean Touitou - Interview Magazine

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/jean-touitou/

Full Text of Jason Epstein's TOC 2009 Keynote - Tools of Change for Publishing

http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/02/full-text-of-jason-epsteins-to.html

The Tyranny of the New - Page 2 - Art+Books - Los Angeles - LA Weekly

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-06-17/art-books/the-tyranny-of-the-new/2

A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria

http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-real-web-design-application/

Andrew Wylie's publishing deal with Amazon: The Day of the Jackal | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2010/07/andrew_wylies_publishing_deal_amazon?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/dayofthejackal