In a letter to shareholders, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shared ten reasons Internet TV will grow quickly over the next few years. He predicted:

Eventually, as linear TV is viewed less, the spectrum it now uses on cable and fiber will be reallocated to expanding data transmission. Satellite TV subscribers will be fewer, and mostly be in places where high-speed Internet (cable or fiber) is not available. The importance of high-speed Internet will increase.

We’ve collected his ten reasons below, a fascinating look at the way infrastructure and apps will evolve over the next few years. You should read his complete letter for more details.

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Do you use your Android tablet as a writing tool? One writer posed a common problem in a Reddit post:

I carry around a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 wherever I go. It wasn’t long before I grabbed a bluetooth keyboard and started doing some of my writing on the go. I’ve been using Polaris Office and dabbling in Google Drive, but I still feel like I haven’t found a program that really gets formatting down or provides the experience I’m looking for.

We’ve collected the best responses below. If you have more suggestions, include them in the comments section.

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Happy birthday, William Shakespeare!

To celebrate, we’ve rounded up free copies of the 30 most popular works by the great author on Project Gutenberg. Follow the links below to download for your Kindle, iPad, Nook or other digital reading device.

If you want all these poems and plays in a single place, you can download a free copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. If you don’t feel like reading a whole play, try Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

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Thanks to a simple Google Drive form, Boston residents can offer shelter for Boston Marathon attendees stranded in the city following the horrific explosions yesterday.

If you need a place to stay in Boston, sign up at this link.

If you have a place to offer someone on Boston, sign up at this link.

You can see all the responses collected in this Google Doc. Here’s more: “If you’re in town for the Marathon and need a place to stay, please fill out this information. Here’s a list of people who have a place to offer, but please fill this out first”

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TabTimes and the Application Developers Alliance revealed today that the Tabby Awards deadline has been extended until May 6th.

The contest will celebrate the top consumer apps in the world of tablets, exploring some of the best mobile content. The company has also launched Tablet Ecosystem, a new conference in September. Here’s more from the company:

The TABBY AWARDS competition is open to consumer applications written for the iOS, Android, and Windows 8 operating systems. The competition covers 27 categories including Entertainment, Games, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Music, News, Shopping, Social, Sports, and Video. A panel of experienced app developers, designers and publishers, as well as tech bloggers and journalists are being assembled to judge the competition.

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular AppNewser headlines of the week.

They include apps to clean your Android device, free transcription tools and a photo finding service for online writers (video embedded above).

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3. Best iPad Stylus for Writers

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5. Free Transcription Tools for Writers

6. Imgembed Lets Photographers Connect with Online Writers

7.  Send Free International Texts with These Apps

8. Websites Where You Can Download Free eBooks

9. Free eBooks of the Week

10. ‘The Saturday Evening Post’ to Publish F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Collection

News aggregation app Flipboard added the ability to create magazines in an update two weeks ago, and creators have now produced more than 500,000 magazines on the site.

The company created a sprawling infographic about the growth. Here’s more from Flipboard:

It’s been two weeks since the new edition of Flipboard was released, allowing readers to collect and curate things they love into magazines on Flipboard. If you haven’t had a chance to download Flipboard 2.0, be sure to upgrade today.

LinkedIn has acquired the social reading company Pulse, making a move to become a “professional publishing platform.”

According to the release, they purchased the company for “approximately $90 million, subject to adjustment, in a combination of approximately 90 percent stock and approximately 10 percent cash.” Stanford graduate students Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta founded Pulse in 2010. Here’s more about Pulse from the release:

Pulse currently has more than 30 million users who have activated its iOS and Android-based news reader apps in more than 190 countries. Pulse is available in nine languages, and approximately 40% of users are outside the United States. More than 750 of the world’s leading publishers distribute their content through Pulse.

According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP) StatShot report for the calendar year of 2012, total trade sales rose six percent  in 2012 compared to the same period last year (AAP chart embedded above).

The AAP looked back at the digital transformation, reporting that digital books now make up 22.55 percent of net revenues in the trade publishing industry. GalleyCat has a breakdown of sales by format and category last year. Here’s more from the report:

In 2002, those Trade publishers reporting eBooks to AAP noted the format represented 0.05% of their total share of net revenue. By 2006, eBooks were reported as 0.50% of participating Trade publishers’ net revenue; it reached 1.18% by 2008. The following year, the digital transition was underway and percentages reported grew rapidly:  from 3.17% (2009) to 16.98% (2011) and now, for 2012, 22.55%.

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Thinking about self-publishing your book with Kobo’s Writing Life Program? The video embedded above will give you a detailed introduction to the platform.

You should also download a copy of the Kobo Writing Life User’s Guide (PDF). If any of the terms are confusing, you can check this Kobo Writing Life FAQ. Here’s more from the digital publisher:

Do you have a story to tell? Are you an author with a bestseller just waiting to be discovered? Want to reach out to millions of readers in over 190 countries? Do you own the digital rights to your work? Then have we got the tool for you! Kobo Writing Life is the one-stop, do-it-yourself publishing portal.