magazine subscription services‘Netflix for Magazines’ Services Explain Why They Are Not Doomed (Media Shift)
It must be depressing to hear so many people say that your company’s business model has no future.
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The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere (Open Culture)
And so you might imagine how pleased I was to discover what looked like classical Latin in the real world: the text known to designers around the globe as “Lorem Ipsum,” also called “filler text” and (erroneously) “Greek copy.”
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Goodreads Has Decided That There is No Friendzone for Authors and People (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
The social network added new relationship options on Friday. Ostensibly intended to better define how authors and the hoi polloi interact, the new options are causing more problems than they solved.
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How One Woman Swapped Big Pharma for Publishing to Fulfill her Dream (CNN)
When Tewa Onasanya couldn’t find a single fashion magazine aimed at black women on the shelves of a shop in Essex, England, she decided to start one herself.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Mrs. Mike (and others)

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