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Top magazine publishers plan to develop open standards for a new digital storefront à la iTunes, as well as the related technology to allow consumers to access magazines on portable digital devices. See www.foliomag.com.

Patents were awarded to a recently developed inline manufacturing process to apply and fully conceal an RFID tag in the cover or spine of hard cover products such as books, DVDs and CDs. See www.rfidsb.com.

Some call the prototype of a Sports Illustrated digital magazine for future tablet-format appliances “dazzling.” See www.minonline.com/news/12862.html.

“Ways to Go Green Without Losing Your Shirt”: A print-on-demand and e-book for creatives.? See www.graphicsgonegreen.com.

“I loved your [blog] description of newspaper reading. (“It is not unlike a whale scooping up plankton.”) That line made me LOL.

“I like the Kindle concept, but I am not sure it's for me. I obviously am a big fan of reading books printed on paper, too. Perhaps the next generation of tablet PCs will help us adapt. Print on paper will never go away, but burying our head in the sand won't slow the change either.” — Tim Sharr, president, Prosit Print Solutions (Broomall, PA)

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Excerpt | Increased business activity eventually will enable a return of at least some of the direct mail volume that evaporated over the past year or two. But whether renewed mailing activity will mean restoration of the volume of 2007 is another matter. It is more likely that, when economic times improve, total mail volume will reset at a new, lower level. This can be attributed to two factors: diversification and migration. See http://blog.americanprinter.com/in-focus.

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