Wired magazine did an unusual thing today: they published a story online before printing it — because news broke. Amazon has a new, searchable book archive which amounts to a huge leap toward making books searchable…. a (semi)browsable database of 120 thousand books… 33 Million indexed pages. Wired had an exclusive on it — a really smart piece by Gary Wolf — but it wasn't going to hit newsstands for three weeks (ah, the wonderful 19th century world of magazine publishing), so editor Mark Robinson and others at the mag decided to put it online at wired.com. I'm told this was standard practice back in the publication's pre-Conde-Nast day, but it's interesting to see this happen again for the first time in what would appear to be a long while. Link
Wired Magazine publishes story online before printing it
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