Brave New World

Topical items and views on the impact of digitisation on publishing and its content and the issues that make the news. This blog follows the report 'Brave New World', (http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/vcil/bravenewworld.html ), published by the Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland and authored by Martyn Daniels. The views and comments expressed are those of the author.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

'Plastic Will Do Nicely,Sir'

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The UK Payments Council today stated that the use of cash by consumers, businesses and financial organisations fell to 48% of payments...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Spotify No Longer Just Music

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When we look at the future of on demand and streamed media services the clue is in the word media. We are no longer shackled to thinking...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Are Enhanced eBooks a Digital Grail?

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What is the state of the ebook market and are there significant differences between the various different market segments and geogra...
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Thursday, April 09, 2015

A 60 Second Battery Fix?

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One of today’s biggest mobile problems is that of battery life. When the battery is fully charge the world is our at out fingertips,...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity: Part 2

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Part 2:  The Organisational Impact of Communications in Today’s World? A company may have the best product or service and the ...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity. Part 1

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Part 1:  How did we arrive to where we are today? It now seems a lifetime away when we started our technology journey which we...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

EU Approach to eBooks Is Nonsense

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This week four cultural ministers from four powerhouses; Italy, Poland, France and Germany jointly requested that the EU Commission ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Is FingerReader Positive Wearable Technology?

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We talk of wearable technology and see a deluge of wantabees who all want to be seen in their ‘Emporer’s New Clothes.’ But it often is f...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Are You iWatching?

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I have just bought a 1936 Imperial Companion 1 portable typewriter and it now sits proudly on my desk alongside today’s technology...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

So Who Is Watching and Listening To You?

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We live in a world of surveillance, moving ever closer to Orwell’s 1984. We are surrounded by CCTV cameras on buildings, streets and ins...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Where Libraries Are Sited Is As Important As What They Do?

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Public Libraries where often built as large standalone buildings in the central Victorian and  Edwardian civic centres, many of whi...
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Alibaba Starts Drone Delivery Trails in China

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Maybe the optimum size of a printed book in the near future will not be determined by the print economics, but instead will be governe...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Txtr RIP?

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Provisional administrator Christian Köhler-Ma has been appointed to German ebook service provider Txtr. Txtr provided ebook solution...

Sly Stone To Finally Get Paid

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The music industry history is littered with artists who claim they were duped into bad contracts and not paid a fair amount. There a...

Maybe Harris Should Drink Some Costa Coffee?

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What is more important and best for books, a group of intellectuals sitting round a table, or on a couch, talking about a book, or a g...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Wise Investment: Kieron Smith or Blinkbox ?

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So would you invest in a service that still has to prove itself or someone who has done it more than once and brings ability to the ta...

'The Times They Are A Changin'

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Nielsen's 2014 annual review of the music industry has negative signs in front of chain store sales (-20%), total new album sale...
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Martyn Daniels
Before entering publishing I worked for many years as a Senior Executive in blue chip organisations in the retail, oil and automotive sectors. My publishing induction was initially as Director of Strategic Development at VISTA. There I was responsible for, and a contributor to, their highly acclaimed ‘Publishing in the 21st Century’ research series, the primary creator behind publishing services PubEasy and ‘batch.co.uk’, the initiator of the development of new Front Office systems to support publishers. In 2006 I joined Value Chain International(VCIL) initially as VP Marketing, Media and Publishing before becoming their President in 2009. In July 2011 the company's operations were acquired by Syncordia. I hold two non executive positions with publishing industry players Bibliophile Ltd and Haven Group and currently setting up Read Petite a service focused on providing digital short form material online via subscription. Email mdaniels@opus57.co.uk
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