“The deal, which gives Microsoft a 17.6 percent stake, values the Nook unit at $1.7 billion — roughly double Barnes & Noble’s entire market value as of last Friday — and bolsters the bookseller’s efforts to make its digital business the linchpin of its future growth.”
Month: May 2012
A Challenge To The MPAA On Who Represents The Movie Business
“The relationship between IFTA and MPAA is a telling example not only of how lobbying gets done in Washington but also of how perceptions are formed.”
Rise Of The Artist-Endowed Foundations
“Artist-endowed foundations are the sleeping giants of philanthropy,” says András Szántó, a New York-based analyst and cultural consultant. Indeed, these charitable foundations, endowed by an artist with assets (archives, property and art among them) used for the public good, are quietly but dramatically changing the US art landscape through their grant-making programmes, scholarship, research activities and contributions to museum collections.
The Rise Of Face-To-Face Story-Telling
“While they’re partly driven by a craving to get out of their screens — and sometimes tiny living quarters — and into the real world of physical contact, they’re also working around a dissatisfaction with traditional political and media discourse, according to Mark Winston, director of SFU’s Centre for Dialogue. Newspapers and TV don’t bring people in touch with each other like this.”
Does The iPad Have Any Use For Classical Music?
“Granted, music editing software and even some apps are better than they used to be. But while musicians and industry buffs occupy themselves with apps such as Sound Hound, Turntable, or even the I Am T-Pain app (which makes your voice sound like that of rapper T-Pain), or with mastering Pro Tools, do classical composers get anything out of the new iPad?”
Can The Suburbs Be Saved?
Herein lies the great complication of suburbia. Its myth – of wealth, whiteness, a steady-job in the big city, and a space to call your own – keeps getting in the way of the big-picture: the thousands in need of change. If architects are to “save” the suburbs, and redesign them based on their multiple realities, they’ll have to start by separating themselves from the myth. By bursting the ‘burbs’s bubble.
Five Ways To Get More People Into Movie Theatres
“For all the talk of a box-office renaissance, the truth is that most of the gains of the past decade have come from rising ticket prices, not more people seeing movies.”
Tony Nominations Announced
The new Broadway musical “Once” led the Tony Award nominations on Tuesday with 11 nods, including for best musical, director, actor, actress and choreographer, while “Peter and the Starcatcher” led the unusually strong pack of plays with 9 nominations.