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Originally Posted by JaneD
Must be a slow news day, because the LA Times has a giant front-page article about the iPad. It's mostly about the advantages of embedding video in text, but it's a pretty wide-ranging article about how digital gadgets are changing the publishing industry.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,2712081.story |
The future of reading is a little presumptuous, I'd say. There is always something else on the horizon.
However I came onto something interesting in Zinio, my favorite app. I was going through the available titles and my eye caught a free issue. It's the Readers Digest special joke issue. Yes, you can laugh; a highly cultural work.
Because it was free I downloaded it. Throughout the magazine there were commercials on demand for Geico. That little gecko always amused me so I tapped it.
The commercials were part of the page layout and set inside a gilded frame. As the commercial goes on, nothing changes with the layout. Usually a commercial brings you to some other page that doesn't let you leave but those are tastefully set and non obtrusive.
If this is the future of reading, I'm in.