Thursday, September 27, 2007

Congratulations on a Significant Coup

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The news that Richard Charkin has left Macmillan and joined Bloomsbury is both interesting and intriguing. Jack Charlton when he was appoint...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Author Care

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Authors are the creators of the content the intellectual property that turns the wheels of the book business. The often all too forgotten he...

Social Networks Grow

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Social network sites are clearly the in thing and are developing in many ways. Today we read that News Corporation is set to launch a mobile...
Monday, September 24, 2007

One Laptop per Child

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The One Laptop per Child programme has not received the backing many expected and has experienced what one may say is the difference between...

One More Cup of Coffee Before I go

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So where is the money in the music business? Where do artists make their bucks? Yesterday the channel was clearly defined and the money came...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Borderline

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Welcome to Borders beta web site http://beta.bordersstores.com/online/store/Home. It looks clean and fresh and the navigation also looks goo...

IBM Enter the Office Again

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One day after the Microsoft bashing from the European Commission comes the inevitable first skirmishes of the potential pending wars. IBM i...

Who do you turn to?

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The other day I was clearing out some old journals and came across the Publishing in the 21st Century research papers that were sponsored by...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Audiobooks Move Forward DRM Free

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We said that it would happen but we didn’t expect it so soon but the nail in the DRM audio coffin is now firmly being hammered home. eMusic ...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Digitisation Does Not Start at the Back Door

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The question of what to do in the digital world and when to do it perplexes many today. Different sectors are clearly moving at different sp...
Friday, September 14, 2007

World's Greatest Bookstore?

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The ‘world greatest ebookstore’ has been announced. Is it Amazon, Google Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo or any of the usual suspects? No it has bee...

Books for Free?

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Books for free where everyone gets paid, author, publisher and retailer! This may sound far fetched but it is happening today. The money wil...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Another Nail in DRM?

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Microsoft has patented via United States Patent 20040204943 a digital watermaking technology refered to as Stealthy Audio Watermarking. Is i...

A Facebook with Wrinkles

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In the Brave New World report we intimated that the ‘silver surfers’ should not be forgotten as they had; higher disposable income, more lei...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Howlin' Wolf

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What’s that noise? Is it a Beluga Whale, or a Boreal Owl, or maybe a Yosemite Toad? Maybe it’s the new ringtone from the Center for Biologic...

IPhone One million Units and Growing

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Apple has just sold its millionth iPhone which it achieved in less than three months after it’s debut. Ok some may have found fault with it ...

Quick and Dirty Snippets

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Holtzbrinck Publishers has launched an online website offering free podcasts, called Quickanddirtytips.com. The website clearly suffers from...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Medical Journals for Free

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Where can the medical world learn about the latest practices and technology and know that these articles are valid and have been peer review...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

eBooks - the Next Chapter

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The gloves come off and the digital wars really start this year. Amazon is set to launch the much hyped and long overdue Kindle ebook reader...

Customised Childrens Books

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HarperCollins together with publishing partner Penwizard are working with Noddy license-owner Chorion to launch printed "books on deman...

What do you want to call it?

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Some of us have always struggled to see textural works as books or journals and remember the shock and horror of many when all works were fi...
Monday, September 03, 2007

The Race to Drop DRM

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The wars between Bezos and Jobs are starting and the first salvos are not to be books, but music downloads and the area that Bezos had previ...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Tell Me Where I am, Please

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The new TomTom new high-end product, the TomTom GO 920 T, has voice recognition. The device also includes new enhanced positioning technolog...

Textbooks for Rent

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As US College students all prepare to return to campus, Bookrenter.com have launched a new textbook rental service. Why rent when you can bu...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Disintermediation?

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We now hear about the coming wars between the iPhone and the new Nokia phone. Both will hit the UK market later this year but both differ in...

Not Waving but Drowning...

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I read with great interest Fred Newman’s piece on Bookselling in the Digital era which was featured in Publishing News this week. Many of th...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Helping Journalists Thrive, Network, And Collaborate On The Web

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In a thought provoking article, the blog Publisher2 raises the issue about the impact that digitisation is having on reporters, editors and...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Kiosk Downloads

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Ripfactory’s CD squared is a retail kiosk which enables customers to purchase a CD in a shop and transfer the music onto their portable musi...

Watermarks – A DRM free environment?

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Watermarks have started to become the new buzzword. The name comes from the faintly visible watermarks imprinted on stationery that identify...

Publishers in push to sell direct online

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The Bookseller reports on publishers' moves to sell direct to consumers online. They reported on Random’s launch of their direct-to-cons...
Monday, August 27, 2007

'eBooks are Coming' - a response

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As I returned from my annual break where nothing was digital or remotely ebook to find some interesting news and some usual ‘August noise’. ...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Who is Amazon?

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Amazon.com, has launched a new self-publishing service called CreateSpace which will make it easier for all budding authors to be published....

It has Finally Happening – SpiralFrog

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In the Brave New World report last year we wrote about SpiralFrog a free music download service whose business model is based on advertising...

NB Content is becoming Free

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The ability to charge for content especially in non-digital media like newspapers, magazines, and video was based on a limited supply of qua...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Skype moves ever closer

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Some may argue that we write a lot about VOIP services such as Skype and that this is not relivant to publishing. Maybe they are right and m...

AA Guides to London

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Travellers to London can now find their way around town using the new AA Smart Travel Guide which comes on a memory card and can be played o...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Keitai Novels

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There are many differences between Japanese and western cultures. The differences have always been fascinating to try and understand. Over 1...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

Eminem's music publisher sues Apple over downloads

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Eminem has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple for allowing music downloads onto iPods without permission. The suit, filed in Detroit by E...

Cheaper Journals?

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Cheaper journals? I had to read the article again as I must be dreaming. It was like listening to Gordon Brown giving us all a tax cut – the...

VOIP takes to the Skies?

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eMarketer reports figures from the Yankee Group which estimates that 9% of all US households subscribed to VoIP (voice over internet) servic...

First the iPhone now the gPhone

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As mobile phones become more sophisticated and mobile network speeds faster and Wi-Fi more pervasive it is clear that the computer connectio...
Friday, August 03, 2007

So how do you identify a digital fragment?

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Nielson informs us that the number of titles published in 2006 in the UK has grown from 110,925 to 115,000 and globally in the English langu...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Fair Use versus Free Use

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The issue of copyright appears again today in the New York Times where they report on an association of computer and communication companies...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Digital Spin on Reverting Rights

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I read Oliver Brice’s opinion column in the Bookseller with great interest. Here was a legal man talking on the subject of rights in the dig...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

TV is about to change forever

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Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are not new to this blog and no doubt they will appear again. But whereas their previous ventures are known...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Welcome to Barbie World

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Barbie is being reborn — she’s got outfits galore — but the doll also has some unusual features as this Barbie, who is smaller, also functio...