Although he told trade magazine Screen International that shooting in Argentina could turn out 30 per cent cheaper than the U.S., Coppola says it is not just about the money.
Gemstar sells a paperback-size device with an 11.5cm-by-7.5cm screen and a magazine-size tablet with a 15cm-by-20cm screen.
The company split itself in two, one half publishing the magazine and the other managing the mainframe database of content that powered the magazine (and eventually, on-screen listings.) Benefitting, perhaps, from the fact that the content of the magazine was highly structured (and repetitive) to begin with, the database part of the company set out to abstract the ongoing production of the listings from their printed form.
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With live tiles, NOOK for Windows 8 customers can easily get right back to their last read title, be alerted to the arrival of new issues of their magazines and newspapers, or even pin a favorite book or magazine to the Windows 8 Start screen.
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According to Screen Digest, a British trade magazine, a major film release in the United States is typically shown on 1, 300 screens, compared with 450 in Germany and even fewer in other rich countries (see chart 2).
Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
It's been difficult for magazine makers to create compelling digital editions that fit every screen size and resolution.
The success of comedies like American Pie hardly suggests that today's viewers despise the intellectually undemanding, while Keaton's The General is "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made" according to the London listings magazine Time Out.
Yes, seriously -- an LCD screen with some form of internet connection embedded directly into copies of a physical magazine.
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Updates Streamed Instantly to the Start Screen: NOOK for Windows 8 features live tile image integration that delivers real-time updates right on the device's Start screen, including the customer's current read, specific progress within a book or magazine, latest periodicals or pre-ordered titles recently delivered to customers' Library, and more.
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