Thursday, January 31, 2008

Amazon Acquire the Audio-book Market?

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Today we read about the biggest digital news to hit the news for many months. Surprisingly it wasn’t top to the industry news but its implic...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Prepare for the Future Today

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We read today about the potential future of mobiles from two different and diverse sources our good friend and futurist Ray Hammond and the ...

Fighting Scientific Plagiarism

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Southwestern Medical Centre researchers have developed a text-searching tool developed that compares multiple documents in a database for si...

Should Authors be Paid by National Archives?

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Whilst the omnivores hoover up library’s works and national digital archives are created in the name of digitisation and preservation, there...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Browse the Internet on the Move

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Mobile browsers have to date been consumer unfriendly. It was if the web could only be accessed via the laptop or on a limited service via t...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Webispodes?

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A new word has reached us ‘Webisodes’ which appear notto be chunks of a work so much as marketing extracts and new supplemental materials. P...

Jobs says No to an iBook

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Steve Jobs the man who gave us iTunes, iPod and iPhone is reported as commenting on the Kindle, "It doesn't matter how good or bad ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Who says you can't take technology to bed?

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We often hear the comment ‘who wants to curl upo in bed with a screen when you can have a book.’ Maybe we are looking at the beds we know an...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Predictive Text

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Why do we believe that the future is bad? Why do we look backwards believing that the world we knew before served us better and that books a...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Ok where is the catch?

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How often do we see something and ask why didn’t I know about it? If I didn’t know about it is there something wrong with it? Does anyone kn...

A Good Week for Digital Music and a bad one for DRM

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This week Sony BMG, which represents artists such as Bruce Springsteen, the Foo Fighters, Santana and Justin Timberlake, effectively put the...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

There is Gold at the End of this Rainbow

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Radiohead ‘Rainbows’ was the first to be offered as an ‘honesty box’ buy with fans paying what they thought it was worth to download it. The...

Pushing back the Borders On Demand

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We read today about Borders move into the on demand in the store offer with Tribeka. It makes sense to offer the widest inventory and servic...

So how do we Identify a Chunk?

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The trick to any machine to machine communication is identification of the product and clarity as to what to do. The ISBN was a great identi...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

So You Think You Know People?

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What would you expect to be the most searched words on Google? Yes you probably guessed right “sex” which in many countries is number one. H...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Libraries Switch On Visitors

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We read from Reuters that according to a survey just published by Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than half of Americans vis...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year!!

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We welcome 2008 and believe following 2007 it will be the year that makes significant strides forward on digitisation. We will definitely no...

Childrens' Second Life?

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When we think of children’s entertainment with think books, games, TV, toys, films etc. We often automatically think of the format before we...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

RIAA Play King Canute

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The record industry stands like King Canute commanding consumers not to copy and share music and like Canute it appears doomed to fail. It h...

Nescape RIP

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Today brings more news that demonstrates that no one can assume the right to exist in the digital world forever. Netscape Navigator, the wor...

Even the Mighty Wal-Mart Can Get it Wrong

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Wal-Mart has withdrawn its online video download service which it pioneered with Hewlett Packard only a year ago. Wal-Mart was the first maj...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Talking eBooks

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Talking books are one thing but talking ebooks? Iranian inventor Ramin Sedighi has demonstrated a prototype of his talking ebook , which is ...

US Consumers are Becoming 'Broadcasters'

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New consumer statistics from a Deloitte & Touche new-media survey of 2,081 Americans, conducted October present some very interesting in...

Samsung Flat TV Update

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Samsung has announced it has developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an worldwide race for organic displays. Ac...

The World is Definately Flat!

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Sony will stop making rear-projection televisions and focus on liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technolo...

Warner Rolls over to DRM Free

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Until now Warner has been resisting selling music downloads in MP3 format without DRM. However this week they relented and signed a deal wit...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Reviewing Our Predictions For 2007

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At this time of year every paper is looking both back over the last 12 months and forward over the next. Predictions are made and quickly fo...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Another Giant Technology Step Forward

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Intel last week announced a tiny drive called Z-P140 that could help bring the power of desktop computers to handheld devices. The flash-mem...

Hymns on line

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The US Christian publishing market is significant in its size and has long been innovative with developments such as its own TV channels. Th...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

A Year in Digital Music is a Long Time

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When iTunes started to dominate the music download market it looked a forgone conclusion that their position would be sustainable and that c...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Palm RIP?

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Remember Palm that handheld manufacturer and one of the first to offer an ebook reader? Palm, which has a worldwide staff of 1,150 has annou...

The Joys of Price Fixed Markets

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Amazon has been ordered to end free delivery on books in France. It has taken three years but the French Booksellers' Union (Syndicat de...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Penny Fiction

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An interesting article from Associated press tells how ebooks are being sold and used to support gamers. The important point was made that t...

Is Google in taking us up into the Clouds?

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Imagine a world where you don’t need to worry about data. Where your files are only accessible by you, from anywhere around the world, on an...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

New Copyright Rules for All?

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We read with interest the lengthy report on the recent European publishers and copyright debate under the European Information Society Commi...

Jouralists should check their stories

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We again spent time following through the links of a news article reported in The Bookseller to discover yet again the posting was noise. Th...

The Cat is out of the Bag

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The music business appears to be switching its business model so fast that it is in danger of really screwing itself. Imeem has now finalize...

Are You LinkedIn?

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So we have teenagers on Bebo and Myspace, students and young aspiring socialites on Facebook and professionals on LinkedIn. The world divide...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

Disney World 2.0

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Walt Disney's Internet arm is about to launch a UK portal aimed at teenagers and showcasing its games, films, music and social networkin...

Educational Games

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Doug Thomas, an associate professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, is developing a game ...
Friday, December 07, 2007

The Internet is arriving at Terminal 1.

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The cabin crew will be coming among you to hand out your complimentaary , drinks and laptop connevctions. In the event of turblance please l...

News , Noise and Old News

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Its weird that you see something in the press and wonder where you first read it and then what is behind it. Today we were drawn to an artic...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

How do we reward the songwriters?

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Music continues to loose its way and it looks more and more likely it will go DRM free and be free to consume on an ad paid model. 7digital ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Nokia Want the Music Consumer

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Nokia plans to offer unlimited music downloads. The world's biggest mobile manufacturer has announced a deal with Universal that will ef...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Is Facebook Fatally Wounded?

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Imagine you put all your details into Facebook and were one of the millions who backed the social site over the others. Just like Gordon Bro...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Spam and Facebook

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The two areas we hear most about with respect to the Internet are spam/junk email and social networking sites. To some the later is a godsen...