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Printed Electronics Becoming More Relevant to Our Market Segments

February 17, 2012

Printed Electronics is on the verge of becoming a relevant technology for several of our market segments. Organic LEDs, flexible displays, RFID tags, printed discrete...

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

February 17, 2012

About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis…clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter....

Time for QR Codes on Campaign Signs?

February 15, 2012

More often than not, QR codes will simply add clutter and are not useful to the campaign. There are, as always, some cases where using...

Hearst to Link Digital Editions with Amazon

February 15, 2012

Is it a magazine—or catalog? Hearst Magazines is going all out, with plans in the coming weeks to start making many of its Kindle Fire...

QR Code Killer? Touchcode Opens Content by Tapping Paper to Screen

February 15, 2012

Dubbed Touchcode, the new technology works by embedding  a thin layer of capacitive material in printed items like business cards, tickets, magazine pages, or product...

How to Become a Multimillion Best Seller on Kindle (Then Move in on Print)

February 10, 2012

John Locke’s story is perhaps known to you. John was an insurance salesman who started to write books in his spare time. He is now...

Marketers See Budgets Rise and Lead-Gen Paramount

February 9, 2012

“It’s a relatively positive outlook for 2012,” said Bob Felsenthal, publisher of BtoB. “Only 7 percent of marketers expect their budgets to be cut this...

Jonathan Franzen: eBooks Are Damaging Society

January 31, 2012

Jonathan Franzen has launched a passionate defense of the printed book, warning that our desire for the instant gratification of e-books is damaging for society....

The Bookstore’s Last Stand

January 29, 2012

Barnes & Noble, once viewed as the brutal capitalist of the book trade, now seems crucial to that industry’s future. If it were merely to...

Children’s Books Get 21 Oscar Nominations

January 27, 2012

Included in Tuesday morning’s announcement of the 84th annual Academy Award nominations were a whopping 21 nods for films based on kids’ books, demonstrating that...

 
 
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