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The in-flight magazine may be on its last legs. In yesterday’s Guardian Media Section Conor Purcell speculates that environmental pressures and the cost of fuel will render the in-flight magazine obsolete. Emirates will soon drop its house magazine:

According to Emirates’ president Tim Clark, the decision to ban all onboard paper will lighten the aircraft by a tonne. “It’s 2kg per seat and 500 seats, a worthwhile saving,” he says. “We are doing it because of fuel prices and the

Google has now opened up its developing database of Knols. See the official announcement (“a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic”), and Danny Sullivan’s helpful assessment. Danny provides a good outline of what Knol is doing and how it works. His reservation is particularly interesting:

Overall, I still lean toward not wanting Google to do this. I remain concerned that by hosting this content, it plays too much in the content owner space when its

What is Mygazines? ….. (answer from their web site)…”Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community.”

The service appears to be in part a YouTube for magazines, and an aspirant social network. The technology is adequate to impressive: the magazines are rendered in Flash, and the user is able to mark. ‘share’, comment upon, pages and magazine articles. The system is largely automated, except that some of … Keep Reading

Jazzwise is now in our magazine shop.

• Table of Contents
• Japanese pianist Hiromi
• Saxophone Summit

Scrapbook joins the shop:

• Lots of links and post codes.
• Table of Contents
• Scrapbook of the Year competition.