Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Morning After the Great Book Bank Robbery

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Today there is much rejoicing in the digital ranks. After all Google has just bought the industry for what would appear in this crazy world ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Great Book Bank Robbery?

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Today is a sad day for copyright and publishing as we know it. Google has settled their long standing case against the publishers and author...

Kindle in the University

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The race to capture the US university market presents some complex digital issues but offers huge opportunities and rewards. In August we wr...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Mobile Broadband is About to Get a Lot Faster

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The future is dependant on high mobile bandwidth. This will enable mobiles to compete head to head with wired services, including today'...
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Photographer Takes Copyright Fight to U.S. High Court

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Interesting copyright issues continue to be fought out over reusing previously published material in new digital editions. The legal debate ...

Oprah's Favorite New Gadget

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Ok who would you choose to promote your brand and product in the US? The answer is both simple and as they say a ‘no brainer’. Oprah has don...
Friday, October 24, 2008

So what of newsprint in the digital age?

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We bet you wouldn't do that with a Kindle or Plastic Logic device! We have heard as many, if not more, predictions about the death of t...

Buy One - Get A Bundle For Free?

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The New York Times today reported that Dell are to sell computers with preinstalled bundles of music from Universal Music Group and films th...

London Librarys' Big Secret Dump Bin

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We have written before about public libraries dumping books in skips for land fill and now The East London Advertiser informs us that Tower ...

Celebrity Culture

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We have all seen the rise of the celebrity culture. Is it any different from those that went before or is it that private lives are now more...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Under Starters Orders

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James Lichtenberg yet again hits the nail on the head when he says that ,’the iPhone is not a "phone", it is a computer, a very co...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Hic!!

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Ok its midnight and you have had a couple of glasses of wine or just got in after a few drinks out with the office pals. You check your emai...

Digitising the Editorial and Production Processes

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Click below to read Martyn Daniels speech to the 30th Editur International Supply Chain Forum in Frankfurt Book Fair on 14th October, 2008. ...

Are eBooks Wise Dot Com?

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Article written by Martyn Daniels and published in Bookseller Frankfurt Show Daily 16th October,2008 A Native American shaman friend, Duke R...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Pick Any Number

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The fog finally lifted over Frankfurt this morning and two hours later than expected we touched down on all too familiar territory. On our a...

Can You Share a Kindle?

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We were pointed today to an interesting blog by Walt Shiel 'A View From the Publishing Trenches' He raises an issue that we had not ...

YouTube TV Shows

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It great to be able to go out knowing you can always watch that TV or radio show you missed via the Internet. Now YouTube has started to run...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

The Technology Award Goes To...

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When it comes to design and that special factor that makes a technology device a 'must buy' Apple clearly lead the way. At the UK’s...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Who's Going to Kiss the Frog Now?

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A good friend publishing consultant and thinker James Lichtenberg once related that publishing was similar to two frogs mating. They produce...

Walmart Listen and DRM

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We told you about WalMart’s announcement 'WalMart Call Time on DRM' 29th September to close down its DRM music servers and the poten...

What Role Do Libraries Play in the Digital Age?

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Many have asked what the role of the library will be in the new digital age? For some it’s about funding, for others information access and ...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Magazines On Demand

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So you want to print a glossy magazine and do it on demand? A start-up called Magcloud is bringing vanity self publishing to the magazine wo...

Groundhog Day

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Remember the CDRom debacle of the mid 90s and the dotcom crash of 2000? We may believe today is Grounhog Day. The market has a canny way of ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Another Day Another Blackberry

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Reuters have reported that RIM (Research In Motion)will roll out yet another mobile later this year! This touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone...

Opportunity Knocks

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The world’s banks are crashing all around us, shares are in freefall, pensions and savings are in the air, financial figures quoted appear t...
Saturday, October 04, 2008

New Sony PRS700, Kindle 2, iRex but Little Change

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So leading up to Frankfurt we have the new Sony PRS 700 ereader making an appearance along with a new marketing US promotion. We have the ne...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Flat meets Round World Head On

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Yesterday we spent some quality time becoming acquainted with Flat World Knowledge and through Eric Frank, its co founder, we learned much a...

Some Good News From Washington This Week

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The Credit crunch and bail out of the US banking system is bad news but it has given us some good news. Due to the emergency rush to pass th...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Richard Charkin Author

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Today Richard Charkin became an author. It wasn’t a novel, or travel and best restaurant guide, or even a book on 21st dress code, but a pri...
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Always Online?

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We first had WiFi hot spot and networks in hotels, cafes and city centres. We then had the dongle, a USB stick with a WiFi modem that enable...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Questia's Social Network

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As social network sites go its hard to judge Questia’s new Research Wizard. In principle it make sense to link researchers into a community ...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

The New Research Order is Zotero?

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The world of academia, STM and professional publishing used to be so simple. Paper ruled the way and with it huge corporate created addition...
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Wal Mart Call Time on DRM

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Everyone ones worst nightmare, is to find that the bought betamax or eight track collections when the world went VHS and CDRom respectively....

EU News

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The European Parliament is one of those governmental bodies who you either love or hate and often at the same time! Last week appears to be ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Nokia Tube October 2nd?

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So Nokia is about to launch its iPhone answer. The Tube will follow the likes of LG, Google and Samsung and be Nokia’s answer to the touch s...

Who owns what?

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The world of content would be lost without the world of context, which helps qualify it and enable the consumers to select it. In the early ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Is Winter upon us?

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We are constantly reminded by every headline and news broadcast that we are in a credit crunch or as we used to refer to it a recession. Thi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Nothing New Here!

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It is often interesting how we all join up dots differently and that we know what we know but all too often don’t know what we don know. Tod...

Sandisk and Music

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On the 20th of August we wrote about SanDisk: ‘Obviously one thinks about pre loaded MP3 music that could potentially play on any music enab...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Business Can Pay?

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As expected the new iRex Digital Reader landed today. Geared towards the business user and to compete with the Plastic Logic unit, it has a ...

Any News is Good News (200 words please)

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We often read Michael Hyatt’s, President and CEO of Christian publisher Thomas Nelson’s blog of his insights and thoughts on the world of pu...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Worder or Wordia

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Wordia.com is an experience which given the appeal of sites such as Wikipedia is bound to be a success and at the same time also derided by ...
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Get Smart?

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An Apple patent application, filed in March of 2007 and published last week, describes a ‘Smart Garment’ that would allow a device to authen...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Another Day and Another Big eReader

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Septemberfest is well on us now and another digital reader announcement is in the making. Not to be undone by Plastic Logic’s reader we now ...

Is It Right.com?

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This week we had a long discussion with a friend who is a literary agent and as usual we ended putting the book world right. The topics were...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

MySpaceMusic Team a Formidable One

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We have seen the music industry turn itself upside down and inside out since Napster first undermined their business model. Now we have the ...

So What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

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So What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? is the question adults often ask young children but one we find ourselves increasingly asking ne...