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• Can iPad revive the news?
• iPad: éditeurs et médias québécois se disent prêts
• iPad: un iPod littéraire?
• Manga Publishers, Comics Creators React to the Apple iPad
• Bienvenue dans l’ère du iPad
• L’iPad, joli mais peu révolutionnaire
• Les espoirs derrière le iPad
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• Apple iPad et les livres numériques
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Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Paul Gravett’s Best Of 2009: Manga
• Diamond Will Order It Even if Previews’ Orders Disappoint
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• Michel Rabagliati : L’univers de Paul et autres petites choses
• Plus de livres électroniques à rabais pour Amazon

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• State of the Union: Highlights, reactions, analyses
• Quad/Graphics swallows rival World Color Press
• U.S. budget targets jobless

Humour

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Media, Culture & Society

• Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger dies at 91
• Maman blogue inc.
• The Web Way to Learn a Language
• Bande dessinée – Paul à Québec honoré à Angoulême
• The 82nd Academy Award Nominations!
• Tou.tv- plus de 745 000 branchements en une semaine

Montreal & local politics

• Les demandes syndicales «un peu élevées», dit Marois
• No garbage pickup; Part of blue-collars’ rotating strike
• Steel-wheel métro cars, instead of rubber, is best way to roll

Science & Technology

• Ginger dino shows colours of the Cretaceous
• U.S. plan to return to moon ‘is dead’: administration advisor
• Virgin Mobile Canada goes live with iPhone, HSPA+

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(updated at 18:12)