Does every software publisher really want to get into the data center business?

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Autodesk Inventor Publisher software-which provides an alternative to traditional instructions by generating 3D interactive instructions that run on iPad, Android devices and on the web-powers the building instructions.

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In March, IBM released software called WebSphere Transcoding Publisher, which transforms content to match the capabilities of mobile devices.

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And now anyone with a modem and a few dollars can become his own publisher by using simple software to create a blog -- a kind of diary of opinion or a running journal that also provides links to articles and other Web sites.

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This reviewer was admiring of it, and then tickled to notice that the publisher's spell-check software program had added nonsenses to the text (Peter Brought, for example, for Peter Brough).

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Map publisher Rand MacNally this week previewed a road atlas software product for the Palm m500 series of handheld.

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"Nothing could be less content-neutral than doing self-help law, " says Stephen Elias, associate publisher at Nolo Press, a privately held Berkeley, Calif. book and software company that publishes WillMaker, Small Business Legal Pro and other self-help guides.

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John Wiley and Sons, the textbook publisher suing Kirtsaeng, has its share of backers as well, including the movie and music industries, software companies, and other book publishers.

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