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Can the World Young Reader Conference, which will happen in Prague this September, provide actionable ideas for newspaper publishing? According to a recent, cloying Pepsi radio spot, youth does everything worthwhile. I personally prefer to see the wiles of age tempering the energy of youth to produce generational changes that represent the experience of everyone [...]

One of the strangest design caveats in e-books and online publishing is the need to reproduce the experience of turning a page as one would with paper. The fixation on creating the simulacrum of a paper page has held sway since the earliest days of electronic reading. E-magazine platform Zinio, for example, made the page-turning [...]

Marko Saric, over at HowtomakeMyBlog.com, has a very useful step-by-step guide to creating an e-book cover. If you’ve been wondering how to make an e-book look good, it’s well worth your reading time.