dreaming in circles,
my sleeping eyes
achieved nothing.

(Source: mykl)

…there is a much smaller market for telling the truth than for shading it.
If the desktop-publishing revolution had required every newspaper, magazine, and book publisher to write their own computer software in order to lay out pages, that revolution wouldn’t have happened.

Jason Snell

(explaining “why iBooks Author is a big deal for publishers”)

Das Keyboard black

For those who crave an old-fashioned clackety keyboard: Das Keyboard.

Available keyed for Windows, blank, and soon the Mac.

The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention, especially not one as ill-targeted as SOPA.
Tim O’Reilly, publisher

(Source: myklbiz)

Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper is printing lies or the truth, we here at V.F. are looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.

- Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?

Out of silence, a squall
drives down the valley. 
With one stroke, 
the firmament’s fury
paints a downpour.

(Source: mykliam)

This is new territory for mainstream papers, who have always had head count rather than engagement as their principal business metric.