Friday, December 22, 2006

A Day at the ebook Races

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Another ebook reader STARbook is to be launched in Taiwan by China-based eRead, a Chinese language electronic book distributor. The portable...

The Glass is Half Full

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King Canute tried to order the waves back and failed to win his battle against the tide. We all know that story but more importantly we now ...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Google Maps All Faster

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Google has bought European Internet mapping company Endoxon. This further strengthens its position in the battle of maps. Just like hundreds...

Ingram's Digital Venture Moves Forward

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Ingrams announced take over of Coutts is further demonstration of their digital intent. It comes on the back of Kent Freeman’s impressive pr...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Face Value

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In early 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook at Harvard University. The objective was to replace those traditional printed face books, wh...
Friday, December 15, 2006

The Proof is in the Reading

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‘ The Iraq Study Group Report ’ was published in the US last Wednesday by Random House’s Vintage Imprint at $10.95. It was an instant best s...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Nevermind the Width feel the Quality

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Search, discovery and qualification are key value services in the digital world. Many automatically assume that the search engine omnivores,...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

BookSense to go Digital

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BookSense.com the American Booksellers Association Internet bookstore program has signed an agreement with the new Ingram Digital Ventures ...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Movers and Printers

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It is easy to forget paper in a digital world where we all have email, mobile phones, laptops, and are permanently ‘connected’. Yesterday’s ...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Omnivore Wars – The First Salvo

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With a shot across the bows of its arch rival, Microsoft finally launch its ‘Live’ programme. From Thursday, anyone wanting to view an obscu...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Brand New Screens for eBooks?

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For many years the major problem was backlight screens, you just could not read them in daylight. We all assumed the answer would be eInk. H...

Wi Fi for free

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Today Manchester City Council has unveiled plans for a citywide Wi-Fi network which will cover 90 percent of the Greater Manchester area. Th...

Search and Browse Inside

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Since its launch, Amazon’s ‘Search Inside’ function has slowly been adopted within the market and has clearly added value to the buyer exper...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

Omnivorous Digital Wars

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In the BA report ‘Brave New World’ we raised the question of new market entrants – the omnivores. These beasts are different to all that hav...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

VAT

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VAT Every now and again the dreaded tax question rears its ugly head. Are books different? Should they be subject to tax or be seen as educa...
Friday, November 24, 2006

Review copies on eBay

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Today we read that printed review copies are being sold on eBay. What is better for the review copy, it potentially finding a good home or b...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Sharing the Digital Pie

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I read an interesting article in www.booksquare.com today that a friend had forwarded me. It relates to the low royalty payment that its au...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Political Digital Drivers

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Will governments make the digital difference and if they do, will publishers rise to the challenge? We wrote in our recent report ‘Brave New...
Monday, November 20, 2006

A Play with Words

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Macmillan is reported as about launch a new audiobook player, called Word Play. This sounds great news and clearly follows what many have sa...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Digital Content will sell all Books

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Today we read about Random House’s new promotional preview for Thomas Harris’s his long-awaited novel Hannibal Rising. They plan to post cha...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Google rules the search waves!

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Today we read about the search engines and the dominance of Google in the market. Hitwise analysts at http://www.hitwise.com/ have publishe...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Welcome to the Booksellers Association Blog

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This is the new Booksellers Association blog.
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