Early iBooks Textbooks Downloads Estimated at 350,000
Not bad for a service announced four days ago.
Update on the Louis CK self-publishing story
…$1,000,000 Net.
LIFE 75 - A collaboration between LIFE and The Wonderfactory. Available for the iPad. $12.99
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, LIFE’s editors have drawn on its extraordinarily rich photo collection to produce the LIFE 75 App, a selection of the very best of LIFE. Offering a unique viewing experience, the LIFE 75 App features more than 200 photos and related magazine covers, along with video and audio clips that tell the story of how LIFE was made.
Features Include:
- A unique interactive layout, presenting LIFE’s greatest photos in landscape view and related covers in portrait mode
- Numerous audio clips featuring LIFE’s past and present editors and photographers, providing exclusive insight on their time at LIFE
- Video clips in which LIFE’s most brilliant photographs tell how they got their shots
- An interactive game, Editor’s Choice: Can you choose the photo that made the cut?
- Galleries of rarely seen photos, available only in LIFE 75
- Multiple navigation points, including a “decades bar” that sorts the photos from the 1930s to the 2000s.
Some of the topics
- Up Close with the Stars: Hollywood’s brightest lights gave unfettered access to their lives. The result: special pictures of the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Memorable Moments: LIFE; was always present to capture the crucial instant, from Gen. Douglas MacArthur landing in the Philippines to Martin Luther King Jr. launching his civil-rights crusade.
- In the Wild: LIFE offers a menagerie of the exotic and domestic, the cute and the terrifying.
- At War: LIFE’s intrepid photographers brought home the horror and the heroism, including images that helped changed how Americans felt about Vietnam.
- Heroes and Villains: LIFE made unforgettable portraits of some of the most admired and reviled people of our time.
- LIFE Classics: The sailor kissing the nurse. The Marlboro Man. LIFE published images that became nothing short of iconic.
- Magical Places: The Taj Mahal by moonlight, Mt. Everest in sharpest daylight. Witness some of the world’s greatest scenic and architectural wonders.
Introducing Google Currents
The Holy Grail, Part 2
@rogerblack on publishing. Another must read.
The Holy Grail, Part I
@rogerblack on publishing. Read it.
Roger put these up a few days ago; due to lots of travel, I haven’t had a chance to post until now.
The new, restyled, ‘Intelligence in Lifestyle’ - Courtesy of the excellent design skills of my very talented friend, Francesco Franchi.
New logo by Christian Schwartz.
