BOSTON, MA — 06/23/09 — Every Fourth of July, friends and families gather around a grill to enjoy classic American food in the sunshine. No matter what you are cooking on this most popular of summer holidays, a little planning can make your barbecue the party that gets talked about all year long.To serve the best burgers, you must start with the right meat, says legendary barbecue expert Ardie Davis, author of the new book “25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling” (2009, The Harvard Common Press). The founder of Greasehouse University — the fabled institution behind the coveted degree of Ph.B., or doctor of barbecue philosophy — Davis knows what it takes to grill like a pro. “It’s best to buy ground meat from a specified cut,” he says, “like sirloin or chuck, instead of the generic ‘ground beef.’ The latter is not necessarily bad, but the quality will vary, since ground beef can come from any part of the animal.” What’s the best ratio of fat for your patties? Davis prefers 80 percent lean ground beef for grilling. “The fat cooks out and makes for a juicy burger.”
Grilled corn on the cob is a natural favorite for outdoor eating. To produce those enticing grill marks on the kernels, Davis suggests shucking the corn before cooking. Grill shucked ears of corn directly over the heat for 10 minutes, turning frequently with long-handled tongs, and serve accompanied by butter, flavored with lime juice and chili powder.
Baby back ribs make for an impressive presentation and are surprisingly easy to prepare on a grill. Whereas smoking the meat can take hours of cooking time, grilled ribs actually can be done in under an hour. Season four whole slabs with a dry rub, then grill them on medium heat for 45 minutes, turning every 5 minutes until the meat pulls away from the bone. For “wet” ribs, brush the cooked ribs with your favorite barbecue sauce before serving. If you prefer them “dry” style, spray the ribs with cider vinegar and add more seasoning once they are cooked. “I like to serve these ribs with doctored-up coleslaw,” says Davis. “Add chopped sweet red and yellow bell peppers to a bag of prepared coleslaw and mix it in a bowl with your favorite sour or creamy dressing.”
Looking for more great holiday recipes? Davis’s “25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling” is available in bookstores everywhere and as a digital book at Zinio.com/cookbooks.
BOSTON (June 24, 2009) – Zinio, the global leader for digital-publishing products and services, today announced the launch of more than 30 digital-book titles from its newest partner, The Harvard Common Press, the nation’s leading independent publisher of high-quality cookbooks and parenting books. Starting today, Zinio will be offering a 20% discount off the retail price on all digital books purchased through www.zinio.com/cookbooks.
“This is a shared milestone, as it is the launch of Zinio’s expanded digital bookstore as well as The Harvard Common Press’ entry into the digital-publishing space,” said Rich Maggiotto, president and CEO, Zinio. “Soon, cooking enthusiasts and parents will be able to enjoy the interactive benefits of digital book-reading, such as easily bookmarking recipes and sharing parenting tips, all while watching experts deliver their advice via video.”
“Over the past 33 years, The Harvard Common Press has become the country’s premier independent publisher of high-quality cookbooks and parenting books, and I am confident that our readers will embrace the new digital platform,” said The Harvard Common Press’s president and publisher, Bruce Shaw. “Partnering with Zinio allows us to deliver our latest and most popular books to our loyal readers in a dynamic new format.”
Throw those out-dated textbooks out the door because the digital age is bringing in a storm of digital books. According to govtech.com, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced plans to digitize textbooks to help aid to current financial burden in California.
Last week at a press conference held at Calabasas High School, Governor Schwarzenegger said that beginning this fall with math and science subjects, California will become the first state to issues digital textbooks to their high schools.
Today information is so easily available with the access of different technologies obtainable to students. It’s only natural that their textbooks should be just as effortless to access. No longer will students have to lug around heavy books or have to pay for such expensive books.
There are already many different outlets online where students can purchase electronic books like Zinio Digital Textbooks, ichapters.com, and ecampus.com which offer full books at half the retail value or less. It would be cheaper than the traditional paperbound textbooks, especially now when the schools are in a tight money crunch. Govtech.com said that if California turns digital, they would save an average of $400 million dollars yearly, which would greatly help the financial burden and aid school funding.
In the world of college athletics, NCAA rule infractions are a big deal. So when a collegiate football program as renowned as the University of Alabama’s is stripped of 21 wins — the most wins ever repealed by the NCAA — and Alabama players are forced to pay fines, one would assume that whatever rule was broken was very severe. The NCAA’s decision to punish the University of Alabama’s football team last week proves this is not the case.
The NCAA charged several unnamed players with violating rules regarding the free textbook privilege they receive as part of their scholarships. For a two-year period, players were requesting textbooks and academic supplies from the University of Alabama Supply Store and allowing other students to use them…
And indeed, the Alabama players broke the rules — but the University of Texas should look at the textbook “rental” idea as a method of assuaging education-related costs for their students.
Another possible solution is an investment in eBooks and readers — free electronic texts available to students. Digital textbooks and eBooks from distributors like Zinio are remarkably cheaper than hard copies and provide user-friendly interfaces to keep it as close to the real thing as possible. Moreover, students already pay for access to the University Libraries. Investing in a textbook reader system could be a way to provide students a constantly accessible interface into the University’s expansive and well-established online library system.
The tech industry is always looking for the next big thing: Bing is gaining on Google, the Palm Pre will dethrone the iPhone, and so on. One of the latest “next big things” is the duo of ARM and Android which, if you buy the hype, will wrest the PC industry from Wintel’s grip.
Because it has the DNA of smartphones–most of which are based on ARM designs–this new type of netbook is supposed to offer many advantages over Intel Atom-based models including a fast boot time, always-on wireless broadband and all-day battery life. Qualcomm–one of several wireless companies developing chipsets with ARM cores for this new market–has coined the term smartbook to distinguish these devices from netbooks.
Smartbooks were the talk of the recent Computex show in Taiwan. Qualcomm said 15 companies–including Asus, Compal, Foxconn, HTC, Inventec, Toshiba and Wistron–are working on 30 different devices using its ARM-based Snapdragon platform. The first Snapdragon product, the Toshiba TG01, is actually a smartphone for Japan, but the company showed several smartbooks as well including an Eee PC running Google’s Android. In its meeting room, ARM was demonstrating smartbook and nettop prototypes using application processors from Qualcomm and Freescale with various Linux distributions. Acer announced it would be the first to ship an Android netbook, albeit using Intel’s Atom, sometime next quarter. Competitors such as HP and Dell have previously said they are experimenting with Android as well (now HP may even be working on Snapdragon-based Minis).
At Computex, Qualcomm announced that several developers, including RealNetworks, Zinio and Xandros, are working on version of their software for Snapdragon.
Colorado Springs, CO, June 10, 2009: Today Faith Magazines announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Zinio to design and introduce a wide array of new digital publishing opportunities in the faith-based marketplace.
Zinio LLC, is headquartered San Francisco, and has offices in New York, London, Madrid, Taipai and Sydney. Zinio is the global leader for digital publishing products and services. The Zinio technology is used by more than 1,400 magazine, book and music/entertainment publishers.
Faith Magazines will leverage the robust Zinio platform, including technological and commerce services to launch www.FaithMagazines.com. This portal will be a gateway for ministries and faith-based publishers to expand their own magazine distribution through a digital publishing model. There is new evidence, according to Faith Magazines – the nation’s leading free-market consulting firm for faith-based organizations – that ministries and publishers are now rapidly adopting the new digital technology.
For decades, books have come in two major variants: Big, expensive hardcovers and smaller, cheaper paperbacks. Now Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book line has splintered in a similar fashion: The company has started shipping its $489 Kindle DX, which feels like it’s playing weighty hardcover to the more portable, paperback-like $359 Kindle 2.
The company has been pitching the DX as a better Kindle for reading richly-formatted magazines and newspapers. But it’s important to understand that the magazines and newspapers it sells aren’t Zinio-like replicas of the originals. The E-Ink display is only capable of providing a rough approximation of photos and other images, as shown by this TIME cover:
High street bookseller Borders is to launch a digital newsagent to sell magazine downloads as the popularity of e-zines continues.
It said it was in the early stages of building an e-zine service to complement its in-store range of magazines. Meanwhile retailer Boots is trialling an e-zine of its Health & Beauty customer magazine.
Borders’ online marketing manager Claire Bending said, “We’re keen to support digital formats as much as print. This type of product would support Borders’ overall digital content strategy.”
Joan Sola, president of interactive publishing house Zinio Global, said flexibility was key to success in the market. “Publishing is the last analogue media and you have to be dynamic to push it forward. You have to explore formats, not just magazine downloads but mobile and e-readers, to bring revenue and opportunities for ecommerce,” he said.
Another week, another failed magazine. But while the collapse of print media is hardly news, this demise is different.
Today’s Christian Woman was founded in 1978 to reach evangelical Christian women who wanted a publication that reflected their values. They didn’t want the crass sex talk of Cosmopolitan. They didn’t want the mainstream relationship advice of Redbook. They wanted inspirational stories of faith and Bible-based help in managing their children, friendships and marriages. Anita Bryant graced the first issue’s cover. “It was as close to what people were looking for as anything,” remembers its founding editor, Dale Hanson Bourke. Last week, TCW’s parent company, Christianity Today International (CTI), announced that the magazine’s September/October issue would be its last. “I feel like a dinosaur,” Bourke moaned in an e-mail.
The death of TCW is important for two reasons. First, it shows that Christian magazine publishing is in the toilet along with almost every other kind of print publishing. In its announcement, CTI also said that Ignite Your Faith—formerly the historic Campus Life—would close, and that 22 percent of the CTI staff would be laid off. (Christianity Today, CTI’s flagship publication, founded by Billy Graham in 1956, will remain in business.) Other Christian magazines—Discipleship Journal, Pray and CCM, the Christian community’s version of Rolling Stone—have also been shuttered in the past 18 months. New Man and SpiritLed Woman, published by the Charisma group, have abandoned print and are now available only online. “The perfect publishing storm that’s hitting everyone is hitting us,” says Harold Smith, CTI’s CEO and editor in chief. “It has hammered us.”
Welcome to the FaithMagazines.com beta site! Faith Magazines provides digital publishing resources and services to companies and organizations that produce magazines, books, curriculum, catalogs, small group materials, devotionals, and/or marketing communications that have a demand from faith-based consumers. Stay tuned for news, updates, and the coming full launch!
BOSTON, MA — 06/23/09 — Every Fourth of July, friends and families gather around a grill to enjoy classic American food in the sunshine. No matter what you are cooking on this most popular of summer holidays, a little planning can make your barbecue the party that gets talked about all year long.To serve the best burgers, you must start with the right meat, says legendary barbecue expert Ardie Davis, author of the new book “25 Essentials: Techniques for Grilling” (2009, The Harvard Common Press). The founder of Greasehouse University — the fabled institution behind the coveted degree of Ph.B., or doctor of barbecue philosophy — Davis knows what it takes to grill like a pro. “It’s best to buy ground meat from a specified cut,” he says, “like sirloin or chuck, instead of the generic ‘ground beef.’ The latter is not necessarily bad, but the quality will vary, since ground beef can come from any part of the animal.” What’s the best ratio of fat for your patties? Davis prefers 80 percent lean ground beef for grilling. “The fat cooks out and makes for a juicy burger.”
