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April 2012

“There are roughly 105m multichannel TV households in America, of which 77m do...”

– Bill Nelson, HBO’s chief executive, paraphrased in the Economist’s article from last August: HBO and the future of pay TV. (Re-reading that article was prompted by a friend asking why I hadn’t streamed Veep to see if I liked it. The answer is that I can’t pay HBO to let me do so.)

“Where pixel art celebrates the idiosyncracies of digital, adding a...”

– Enthusiasms: Coming to Terms with the Present.

“Foyles is to leave its iconic flagship store on Charing Cross Road and move to a...”

– Foyles flagship store to move at The Bookseller, from February 2011. Despite this being announced over a year ago, I’d either missed it (or forgotten) until reading the Independent’s (rather depressing) article on the ‘bland makeover’ of Soho (via mondoagogo). Still, at...