Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Expresso on the High Street?

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The Espresso Book Machine, has been coming to publishing for some time and in the last year we have continued our updates on the machine’s p...

Serialised Publishing Returns

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Hats off to Solaris Books in planning to serialise Chris Roberson’s next fantasy novel on its website for free. ‘Three Unbroken’ will be pub...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Democratisation of Ads

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Today we read about a young student Nick Haley, at the University of Leeds, England. He created a commercial for the iTouch, posted in on Yo...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Library Dumps Books

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Wiltshire County Council, which encourages people to recycle, has been attacked by environmental campaigners and charity workers. This is no...

Phoney Wars

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The long awaited entry of the iPhone into the UK market is now only days away. On 9th of November the fashion icon that has started to redef...

Google Take Two Steps Forward and One Step Back

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Google like all major brands spreads its services at an alarming rate. Today we hear about ‘Google 411’ a free business telephone directory...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

If the Omnivore Cap Fits...

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Well we couldn’t believe our eyes on reading of the giant who we called an omnivore has actually adopted the name for its new blog site! In ...

NewsSpace Democratisation

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HarperCollins and MySpace are both part of the Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire. It therefore not surprising to read, that MySpace is getti...

We are not Alone

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The driving forces that we see changing publishing may appear to be different but are very similar to those being experienced by others. In...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

GodTube

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One of the genre we envisaged diverging at speed under digitisation was religion. Today we read about www.GodTube.com a $2.5 million Christi...

Direct from Manufacturer?

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So printers now aim to go after the drop ship market space and offer the Publisher’s a direct market and full margin. Its an interesting pro...

How Many Users Saw Your Ad?

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If you were placing an advert you would want to monitor the number of people who saw it and if possible the resultant conversion rate and fr...
Monday, October 22, 2007

The Cat will not be put back in this Bag

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Audio books appear to be in a digital tug of war. On one side stands the music industry who are rapidly changing business models, are digita...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Scanning The Library World

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Whose library is best and which collection offers the richest content when digitised? We have seen the giant hover that is Google making a l...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Man eBooker Prize

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The Man Booker Prize is taking a bold step to reach the widest audience and are in negotiations with the British Council and publishers over...

Democratisation or Self Publishing

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So where do aspiring new authors go to get published? They can try a publisher or an agent, but the slush pile gets bigger and the rejection...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Zero email Friday

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The email has had a significant impact on all our lives and has made communication both a pain and a pleasure. Even with spam and junk email...
Monday, October 15, 2007

A Democratisation of Penguins (Puffins? -ed)

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The man who gave us the ‘long tail’, Chris Anderson, is now giving us the democratization of technology. An approach, which effectively exte...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

LongPen Reaches Across Restricted Borders

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It was interesting to read today in the Times of some very insightful words about writing from Margret Atwood. She has recently added a new ...
Monday, October 08, 2007

50 50, Ask the Audience, or Call a Friend?

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On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair comes an interesting survey by them, that were published in today’s Bookseller.com. They surveyed 1,30...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Turning a Negative into a Positive

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The selling of review copies has long been a practiced the world over. A good friend of ours, Fred Bass, the owner of that iconic bookstore ...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Zune Revamp

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Microsoft is ramping up its ‘iTunes and Apple competitor’ Zune offer. The question are whether it is merely following in the shadows and whe...

So who still has a Betamax Player?

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So one year after all the hype we now find ourselves reading about another reincarnation. The new PRS505 Sony reader models are now availabl...
Monday, October 01, 2007

For What's it Worth

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Today we read about that Oasis’ forthcoming single, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, is to be released as a DRM-free MP3. Yesterday many bought the ...

A New Dawn for Travel

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BBC Worldwide has purchased travel Publisher Lonely Planet. This should not be a shock to anyone and reflects that we are now moving into a ...

It Just Makes Sense

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Hats off to Alison Kennedy at Egmont, who is pioneering the grading of rating the forest sourcing of papers against a set of environmental c...
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...