I may comment on these later, but wanted to get them ‘on the radar’ for the time being. The facebook developments could be huge.
Facebook making its new currency mandatory for developers
Digital Comic Distributor/Social Platform Graphic.ly raises $3 Million
Wizard Magazine, a Pop Culture Staple, shuts down all print
but it’s not happening in a vacuum.
Now with Borders planning its bankruptcy, B&N can take steps necessary to protect themselves, knowing that publishers will have to accept whatever terms given. It doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have had to do this anyway, but Borders cracking first gives them a slight advantage.
This will trickle down to the mom and pop book stores soon, via less product from publishers, and tighter credit requirements.
I’m a few days late on this story, but it’s too awesome not to comment on. In Utah a 14 year old boy has created an iPhone app game knocking Angry Birds out of its top spot. Angry Birds, and many app games, are a great example of how modern technology is democratizing the world, and decentralizing creativity’s ability to flourish; this kid just took it to a whole new level.
It comes at odd timing with Steve Jobs stepping down in his role of CEO at Apple, who himself was one of the 1970s/80s equivalents of the new upstart.
Retailers just got a whole lot of graphic novels coming to them REAL cheap if they want ’em.
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