The company responsible for the most popular consumer product of all time is getting even better at giving people what they want.

Apple’s current crop of computers built for professionals — up and down the board—are undoubtedly the very best they’ve ever made. The fact that users are unhappy is purely a failure of marketing.

The role of Facebook and particularly Facebook’s impact on the publishing industry, has become an area of intense interest and conversation as developers, editors and publishers ask each other “What happened?” I want to focus on a particular detail of this story that hasn’t received the attention it deserves, in…

When somebody goes out of their way to state the obvious in public that usually means the opposite is true and the speaker knows it. …

The Mac Pro and iMac will be updated when new keyboards are ready with the touch stripe (what’s it called?) Until then, we wait. No big deal, the computers they sell now are very fast.

Originally published October 22, 2012 by Blake Eskin. After spending more than two years writing my book about the Holocaust, I needed to start thinking about something else, anything else. In a used-book store, I found “Scarne on Teeko,” and with it a creative way forward. It turned out that…

Originally published October 15, 2012 by Natalie Podrazik. We’ve been working for more than a year on a platform for independent publishing. Our service lets readers support their favorite writers and subscribe to their work. For writers, we have built a simple way for them to deliver their work to…

Originally published: October 24, 2012 by Tim Moore. Before I got involved with 29th Street Publishing, I spent my time experimenting with publishing on the iPad in my own magazine, Letter to Jane. When I launched the first iPad issue of Letter to Jane, the term “magazine app” was the…

Originally Published: October 25, 2012. During the first half of 2011, Natalie and I were reflecting upon the internet’s promise of bringing creators and their fans closer together. But many new products were injecting themselves into the middle of this relationship, and that dismayed us. This pattern began to manifest…