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Nearly 60 years ago in a kitchen in Chicago, lightening struck. (more)

Playboy is coming to Apple’s iPad, and despite Apple Chief Steve Jobs’s commitment to “free[ing] the world from porn,” the magazine’s app won’t censor ladies’ naughty bits. (more)

Remember when Wired’s debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a while before that type of performance is seen again. Digital sales dropped toward the end of 2010 for all the magazines that make those figures available to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. (more)

Entertainment Weekly has ranked the top 15 entertainers of the year in their latest issue, on stands now. (more)

As families nationwide struggle to keep their mortgage payments up to date, it seems the market in fantasy homes is as buoyant as ever. (more)

Textbooks companies have faced a number of challenges in recent years, such as open course content, an increasingly vibrant used-book marketplace, new publishers proposing alternative pricing models, and new federal rules requiring the unbundling of expensive add-ons from the traditional texts. (more)

These aren’t your average red-carpet knockouts. Meet Vogue magazine’s 10 best-dressed women of the year, selected for a special edition of the magazine — its first ever. (more)

The Daily Beast Web site and Newsweek magazine will announce Friday that they are teaming in a joint venture aimed at giving the ailing newsmagazine some new-media energy and the fledgling Web site a modicum of old-media credibility. (more)

The New York Times cultivates an image as the preferred read of the intellectual elite, but at least one of the paper’s higher-ups seems to think its customers aren’t all that bright. (more)

Katy Perry isn’t shy about showing some skin – just don’t expect her to bare all. (more)

Since its inception the publishing industry has operated like an aristocracy. An elite few held the power to essentially determine if an author’s work would be allowed in the public square. It was publication without self-determination for authors. For no matter how passionate or motivated an author was about his or her work, the fate of the book rested entirely with a few publishing houses. Those days, however, are over. Everything has changed.

Publishing becomes a democracy thanks to technology
In the mid-1990s, the convergence of three emerging technologies laid the groundwork for a revolution in publishing. First, desktop publishing replaced traditional typesetting, which meant an individual could design a book more quickly and cost effectively. Second, the debut of print-on-demand (POD) technology meant copies of a book could be printed individually at costs comparable to traditional, large offset runs. Third, the internet became a retail distribution channel. This leveled the playing field for authors who wanted to distribute their books broadly and cost effectively. These technologies, all developing at the same time, meant the elite no longer held the power. Authors now had it. (more)

The romance between Jersey Shore queen Snooki and ex-Iraq veteran Jeff Miranda has gotten so serious that he has decided to propose, and only RadarOnline.com has exclusive photos and details! (more)

News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is embarking on an ambitious plan for a new national digital newspaper to be distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple Inc.’s iPad and mobile phones. (more)

The woman who sparked a national firestorm by recounting Rand Paul’s youthful indiscretions to GQ magazine is now clarifying her account: She says she was not kidnapped nor forced to do drugs by Paul. (more)

On Thursday night, writer Christopher Hitchens was interviewed about his cancer diagnosis on CNN by Anderson Cooper. The interview comes on the heels of his article in Vanity Fair this week that goes into extensive detail about his struggle with his diagnosis of esophageal cancer, which coincidentally also afflicted his father. (more)

Maybe Newsweek staffers met with the wrong Harman. (more)

Most men have their hands full with one woman. By his own admission, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has bedded over 2,000. But the 84-year-old sex icon is more than a mere Lothario. The just-released documentary “Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel” portrays Hefner not as a soft-core pornographer, but as an outspoken proponent of the First Amendment. (more)

With the country as divided as ever on race, some turmoil has boiled over into the fashion world: Essence, a magazine that targets African-American women, has hired a white woman, Elliana Placas, as its fashion director. (more)

Preparations were underway this morning for President Obama’s arrival at Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s home in New York City (more)