Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Thoughts From India

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As we sit in Bangalore in the India IT capital, surrounded by technology, some of the brightest technology minds and a hive of activity, we ...
Monday, December 01, 2008

The Future is Not Binary - Do we really know the Consumer?

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Publishing has in the main been a mass market sector. However the digital age has turned many conventional marketing demographics and mass m...

Europeana Stutters into Life

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Europeana, the European digital cultural database launched this month was immediately swamped and brought down by the demand on the service....
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The Future is Not Binary – Creating and Developing Intellectual Property

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To become digital, publishing has to digitise its internal processes and break free of the book jacket and spine that has long ‘straight jac...

The Future is Not Binary

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As we sit here in India we are surrounded by diversity not just in culture, wealth, talent but also technology. India is the powerhouse of m...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Amazon to Sell Online Mobile Rentals??

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Last week literary agent, broadcaster and industry insider Peter Cox questioned whether Google would introduce an ebook reader to further mo...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Its All About Content and Rights

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As we all ponder over how we reward the creators of content in this new digital era we must realize that the issue covers all media and cont...
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The Mobile Noise Versus The Mobile News

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The smartphone world has started to become the latest ‘in’ place and we are starting to see the explosion of mobile applications. We have lo...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Nokia Set To Go After Blackberry

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From next month Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email. Nokia, who dropped plans to develop their own eema...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Another Perspective?

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Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and specializes intellectual property and has worked, advised, spoken and written ...

Google to Close Lively

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It appears that not everything that Google does turns to gold and less than six months after its launch their answer to the virtual worlds o...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Unplug That Charger Now!

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We have all heard about how much climate damage Cows can do, or gas guzzling cars, or airplanes or even leaving office lights on all night b...

Google Gets Life Archive

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Life magazine is making its huge library of photographs dating from the late 19th century to today available via Google. Life photographs of...
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PCMag Stops Print to go Full Online

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ZiffDavis the iconic technology and gaming media company announced yesterday that is to cease physical print production of PC Magazine and ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

It Could Never Happen - Part 2 (EPIC 2015)

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Another video not as professional as that we promoted earlier this week and although now a year old tracks the digital era and makes you thi...

Adobe: The Web in a Flash

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Although the new smartphones have raised consumers' demand for Web browsing, game-playing and movie-watching, the web pages are often ha...

Amazon Clouds

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As more and more applications are built on the Web, their availability and scalability become critical concerns. Amazon Web Services are now...

One Step Closer to a Full Pardon

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Associated Press report that a Federal Judge, John Sprizzo in Manhattan has ‘tentatively approved’ the settlement of lawsuits between Google...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Google Pub Quiz

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Seemingly why is it that so few people concerned that Google has created one rule for themselves, whist everyone else still are governed by ...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

It Could Never Happen?

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Watch, question and think the unthinkable.
Friday, November 14, 2008

Fred Newman 1932 - 2008

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Fred was one of the first to welcome me into the publishing world and had that journalist thirst to both understand the issues and the edito...

Google's Digital Book Jigsaw

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First we had Amazon’s Search Inside, then the explosion of widgets in every shape, colour and format. Now we have the mobile phone applicati...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Great Book Bank Robbery - the Debate Starts

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At last someone is starting to stand up to Google and not be seduced by a few pieces of silver. The UK Bookseller Association has fired an a...
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Harnessing the Publishing Network

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The new market challenge is not traffic but turning networks and their traffic into money. Anyone can dream up a new service, or feature, bu...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Try Out Technology in a Hotel Near You

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Hotels are so different; it’s what makes stopping in them such an adventure. Having spent so much time travelling both for pleasure and on b...

International iPlayer

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Having just got back from Canada my first television moment was to browse BBC’s iPlayer and make a note of those programmes I would have lik...

Music Just Got 'Sticky'

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The digital music revolution is now entering its next phase. The first phase merely dumped the music onto your player, the content was the s...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Another ebook reader

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Coming across another ebook reader should stimulate us to look hard at it and listen to the market’s reaction to it and ponder whether it wi...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

The Network Helps Dicate the Shape of the Future

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Digital downloads are today what CDRoms were in the early days of the Internet – the best digital platform - but are digital downloads the f...
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Bibliothèques

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We have previously questioned the role of public libraries in the age of the digital download. Our question is not so much on their validity...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Obama Drives Newpaper Demand

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Reuters report that the November 5th newspaper editions on Obama's victory flew off the newsstands and some major newspapers struggled t...
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So Who Would You Place Your Money On?

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So how many Kindles, Iliads, Sony and ereader devices have been sold? Today we read in Cnet.com that Canalys has released market share figur...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Another Day at the Races

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Microsoft and LG have signed a strategic collaboration agreement in R&D, marketing, applications, and services in mobile devices. Samsun...

Games are not just for Christmas

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What would be your reaction be if your agent says that they have an offer to turn your book into a game? Would you hesitate or jump at it? V...

Content For Rent?

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When we lease a commercial property we enter into and contract. The contract recognises more than anything else, that life changes over tim...

So Where Do NetBooks Fit In?

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The Netbook is becoming the portable device for many. It is ultraportable, an inexpensive laptop designed for Web browsing and light tasks. ...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Enter the Dragon

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We read a review today on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10. For those who have never heard this software, it is one of the leading voice recognit...

The Great Book Bank Robbery – More questions?

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Is it Wise.com Part 2 TMCnet editor Michael Dinan, in his article ‘Competitive Internet Advocate: Google's $125 Million Book Deal Is Sne...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Is it Wise.com?

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Part 1 At last some are now questioning the logic of the great giveaway and whether it is a wise move to reward what some believe is the thi...
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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