Sunday, August 31, 2008

It’s Good to Recycle

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A friend recently asked why their best selling title of only a couple of years had been remaindered. Why they hadn’t been offered stock and ...

Store Once, Render Many?

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It’s interesting to look at the economics of publishing with respect to the digital opportunities we now face. Today a book is sold and the ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Today’s Word Is - Apomediation

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Many years ago we worked for a Supply Chain Director in a major retail operation who started his departmental meetings collecting words. Eac...
Friday, August 29, 2008

A Kindleless Christmas?

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The rumours about a new Kindle reader have been circulating and fuelled the ‘Septemberfeast’ vision of pre Frankfurt rivalry between Sony, A...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry Steps up toStarts to Fill the Void

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Our thoughts on rights ownership in both the current market and future digital one are well documented. For an industry that is all about ri...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Mobiles for the Deaf

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Mobile phones enable people to communicate almost regardless of where they are located. However, since mobiles work on voice communication t...

DRM Free Music Continues

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It seems every month another nail goes firmly into the Music DRM coffin. This turn it Sony Ericsson who according to PC World relaunched its...

Amazon Buys Shelfari

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We got back from a short break in Slovakia to the usual pile of email. In among them was an interesting publishing string about Amazon and t...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Catch them Young

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'Catch them young’ could be the cry from Apple as the iPhone goes into US education. Today’s New York Times reports on the iPhone moves ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

So What's In Your Pocket?

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Mobile technology moves at a pace that changes daily and make you realise that it still has note even scratched the surface of its true pote...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Books on Sticks?

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We have seen the Barbie on a stick, we have seen the podcast on a stick so why not an ebook on a stick? Why not go one better and have a bro...
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Size Does Matter!

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This week we read that Hewlett Packard are to release two new laptops that are lighter, thinner and have extended battery life. The EliteBoo...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Fictionwise Make a Wise Move

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We have written many times about Smartphones and the convergence of technology and applications to this platform. The recent iPhone applicat...

Have You Time to Read This?

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So how do people spend their leisure time? Have we turned away from the TV and being couch potatoes and become gizmo and Internet geeks? A r...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Rabbit, Rabbit , Rabbit

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Rabbits are cute little fluffy animals that we all love. They often bury away underground and unseen and then you see fields of them. So it ...
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Audible launches IndieFirst

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Yesterday’e Bookseller Bulletin covered a interesting piece on Audible’s launch of a new imprint service ‘IndieFirst’ which aims to publish ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Amazoncentricity

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So Amazon's Kindle e-book reader is tipped by CitiGroup analysts to sell more than 380,000 units in 2008. They also predict that it will...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Short Stories Are Needed

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We read much this week about short stories, its apparent demise within the UK and how the US in contrast is now growing the genre and has wr...
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Zuned Out

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A few years ago a New York publishers told us that 'last year we had a title that sold 2 million and was a failure.' 'How?' ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Blackberry Boldly Moves Forward

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Anyone who ever doubted that mobile convergence was upon us take note of the latest offer from BlackBerry who are set to release their ‘Bold...

A Conflict of Interest

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We have written before about Nicholas Negroponte’s , One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) mission to develop and deploy a laptop for under $100 that ...

Peter Gabriel: A Digital Music Poineer

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Often we find articles which are just too good to condense and encapsulate what we would want to say. Today The New York Times has an articl...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Trojan Horses

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Ars Technica covered an interesting subject that we all know is stalking around every corner - that of PC viral attack. NGSSoftware have dev...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

eBooks For Free

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We have raised the question of the role of the library within the ebook world. We have written about Overdrive’s Digital Tour and libraries ...

A Brave New World?

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You would expect even competitors to realise that in an un-established and immature market that a certain amount of collaboration is healthy...

WOWIO is Back!

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Platinum Studios, Inc. who own an library of more than 5,600 comic book characters have globally relaunched the digital ebook distributor WO...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

US Education Establishments Forced to Play Copyright Cops

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In the US a bill has been passed in the House that will empower the secretary of education to withhold federal financial aid money to school...
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Come Fly With Me

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Almost a year ago we wrote about the testing of Internet services in planes by JetBlue Airlines. Last month an American Airlines flight from...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Another Day, Another eReader

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Having failed miserably to master the basics of German at school we must thank the Bookseller for the translation of the German report in T...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Smartphones Look a Smartbet

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The New York Times today reported that in the first 10 days after the new iPhone after launched owners downloaded more than 25 million appli...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

DIY instructions on Hacking the Kindle

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OK you own a Kindle and want to know more well visit www.kindleformatting.com The usual suspect are lined up; a Kindle blog and links to oth...

Observations From the Sun

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Sitting back reading paint, drink and generally unwinding over the last two weeks on in Majorca was bliss but it did bring home a few intere...

The Disipline of Market Leaders

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Having worked for market leader organisations in various industries it is easy to distinguish them from the pack. Some believe that size cou...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Sampling, Chunking, Permissions and Whose Line is it anyway?

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Rights permissions were once described by a very knowledgeable industry colleague as being a publishing mystery. The request was ‘like a pie...

Rights Reversals

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Can you believe what some may describe as the arrogance of some publishers to use digitisation as an excuse to land grab copyright? We wrote...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

15% of What?

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One of the thorny issues that continues to hold up the full adoption of ebooks by publishers is the question of rights. Should that be a que...

Wiki Madness

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What on earth do you want to print copies of Wikipedia for? As soon as you transfer the first page to print, its out of date. As the print i...

Christian Digital News

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We read that 7,000 vendors and retailers attended the 2008 International Christian Retail Show in Orlando last week. This is a $4.6 billion ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Copyright Quick Guide

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We have written much on the subject of copyright and there is much more to write. The thorniest area is that which we referred to as the ‘gr...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Sell Students Stuff

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SellStudentBooks.com is one of those ventures that is simple and hits you like a brick when you see it. Set up as a student social network s...
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SeptemberFest - The ebook Races

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It appears that size, contrary to everything people say, does matter, or so Amazon believe. As a result, it is reported in Wired that a new ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Overdrive Announce US Digital Tour

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Marketwatch reports today on Overdrive’s Digital Bus tour across the USA. The bus tour travels under the name www.digitalbookmobile.com as i...

Amazon on Demand

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Amazon has announced Amazon Video on Demand which will be available to a limited number of Amazon.com customers this week and widely availab...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Another Day, Another ebook reader

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Fujitsu's FLEPia e-book Colour reader is rumored to be close to launch. The A4-sized readers don't have an integrated backlight, but...

A Sad Day for Publishing News

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It’s a sad day when we see the trade magazine Publishing News announce its closure. Fred Newman was one of the first to sit down with me and...