Saturday, February 07, 2009

Kindle 2: Two Days to go ?

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Digital Christain Music on Demand

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In the past, songs were always song the same way, but now you can go to a church and a song could be sung a little differently in every chur...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Mobile Books are Here

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The NYT reported that Google will make their 1.5 million public domain books, that are available for free on PCs and now also make these acc...

Mobile Broadband Harmony and Demand Fuels UK Change

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The BBC report today that regulator Ofcom is planning to make a wider band of spectrum available for mobile broadband services than original...

Audiobooks Just Got a Look Clearer?

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It heartening to read in PW, that the major US trade houses are very close to fully embracing DRM free audio books. The reality is that virt...

Yet another Day and Yes Another Smartphone Entrant

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You can add Notebook manufacturer Asus and navigation system manufacturer Garmin to the increasing list of smart phone contenders. It make t...
Thursday, February 05, 2009

Happy Birthday Facebook

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Most 5 year olds have a birthday party and invite their friends around to share cake, games and fun. Facebook is no different and for its 5t...

Another Day, Another Smart Phone

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We appear to be having a new smartphone every day. Interestingly they are now coming thick and fast from the PC manufacturers. Dell, Lenoivo...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

So Is The UK Going Digital Selectively?

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The anti BBC people will be no doubt rubbing their hands at the news that the Kangaroo joint project between BBC, ITV and Channel 4 is to be...

Toshiba to Shake the Mobile Market?

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Last week it was Dell now its Toshiba. It is clear that the computing manufacturers are all seeing a bright future for the smart phone and a...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Paper View

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We were intrigued by several reports of a new format the ‘video book’. We didn’t stop to ask whether it was BluRay or DVD, but just wanted t...
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Couch Potatoes Sprout

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In 1721 when James Franklin started his weekly newspaper, he invited readers to contribute. One of those readers was his typesetter and brot...

India to Produce its Own Cheap One Laptop Per Child

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The BBC today reported that India is to announce a educational technology investment that will not only impact the likes of the OLPC (One La...
Monday, February 02, 2009

What is the Impact of Digitising Public Libraries?

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Today we read of the surge in library demand and the obvious return to free public libraries when money is tight. Last month we wrote about ...

Lightning Sources Strikes 2 Million

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Print on Demand (POD) is still relatively new but is now well established in the publishing world. In its inaugural year Lightning Source UK...
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Smartphones to Kick the Trend

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ABI Research Inc have announced new mobile projections saying that they expect the 14% of mobiles shipped in 2008 being smart phones to incr...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - A different Perspective

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On the weekend that Google’s Legal Notice of their settlement hit the UK broadsheets, we wonder what it will take to get the debate on the s...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Riverdeep Mountain High

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When times are good and credit is cheap some build significant empires but when winter comes and the sub prime ice storms come then that deb...

February 9th - eReader Day

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We have written on Plastic Logic’s ereader which first surfaced at last year’s CES show and has taken a year to market. This is good news as...

Google ‘This Site May Harm Your Computer’

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Would we have ever expected to try to log onto Google and enter a search to be told that it was dangerous? Some would say that they were onl...

Zumba a Mobile that is Different

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UK based IA Technologies who specialise in military equipment have as developed the Zumba phone. So what is special about this phone and mak...

Child Safe Books - An Update

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It appears the sense has prevailed and the somewhat rushed US act we wrote about last week has a one year stay for further testing. CPSC PRE...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Dell's MePhone to Challenge IPhone and the Rest?

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Dell is expected to announce two iPhone and Blackberry competitors sometime next month. Code-named MePhone, the phones will run on Google An...

Where's the Digital Content?

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We have often argued that consumer digital book demand today is a demand operating in a vacuum. Compare just the titles in print or the titl...

Is it Wise.Com - newprint on demand?

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Imagine going into your local newspaper shop and being offered 890 newspapers from around the world, some 81 different countries and 38 lan...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Death of the Independent Book Review?

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This week news broke that The Washington Post’s ‘Book World’ will stop as a stand alone printed entity on 15th February. Its printed reviews...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Keitai Lessons in Writing for Mobiles

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We have written several times about the Japanese ‘keitai’ mobile phone books and how the writers are adapting to this new format and reachin...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

February 9th - Kindle 2 Day?

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So what do; the Beatles and The Ed Sullivan Show, American combat troops and Vietnam, Lithuanian democracy, Carole King and Mia Farrow and A...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

MSN Loose the Music Plot

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Many have long thought that Microsoft had lost the plot and yesterday some will have thought they definitely had when they launched MSN Mobi...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Amazon Take Off their eBook Format Gloves

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Publishers Weekly today announced that Amazon.com has notified its publisher and author clients that it plans to cease offering e-books in t...
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Google Delivers $5.7bn in Q4

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Some sobering figures were revealed by Media Week last week. Google's ad revenues are bucking the industry trend and are still rising. G...

OLPC Continues

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We have long supported the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which develops low-cost education-oriented mobile computers to sell to gover...

Digital Changes Driven By Hard Times

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In tough times people take different choices and are often more discretionary in their spending. Do you buy a new laptop with full-features,...

Child Safe Books

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We all sucked books when we were young and the most damage they could do was when a hardcover was thrown at another child in anger. Last we...

Sangria Red and Red - Spot the Difference

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Sony and Harlequin last year celebrated Valentine's Day with a limited-edition pink eReader that came preloaded with 14 Harlequin love s...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Legal Notice

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On the 16th January on page 9 The Bookseller printed a whole page ‘Legal Notice’ on behalf of the Google Book Search Settlement Administrati...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Its All About Rights

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Robert Dalton’s article in the New York Book Review, (see belows), prompts us to raise a number of questions with the proposed Google settle...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Great Book Bank Robbery - A Reseach and Information Library Perspective

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A well constructed and logical article by Robert Dalton, a professor at Harvard in the 'New York Review of Books', titled ‘Google ...

Springer Has the Largest eBook Offer?

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There are only a few publishers who can boast a significant ebook catalogue and Springer is clearly at the front of the list. Today they off...
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Litopia After Dark

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Last night we were once again invited to participate on the panel of Litopia. As well as an informative daily Litopia has a weekly broadcast...

UK considers Broadband Levy on Piracy

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Today we read of the impending major UK government report by Lord Carter the Communications Minister. The report looks at how ‘piracy’ shoul...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Crunchpad Prototype

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We wrote a few weeks back about the potential of the large iTouch tablet we. We hope it happens and believe it would be a real ‘killer devic...

Follett Announce a New Educational Reader

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We have seen the recent emergence of more digital formats and readers some of which are mere pretenders and others confusing noise. Today we...

ePricing - Be Careful What You Wish For

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Fictionwise the ebook specialist retailer appear to be monopolising the publicity machine of late. In one breath they claim to have "on...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

US Magazine Digital Revenues Must Change

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The web continues to impact the US magazine sector with some 18 titles stopping their print presses in 2008 and now being joined only this m...

If Facebook Where a Country?

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If Facebook were a country it would be the 8th largest on the planet and would be bigger than Japan, Russia, the UK and most of the develope...

3 Mobile to Offer Books on the Go?

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We were pleased to read from several sources that Mobile operator 3 is to offer its customers the chance to download over 1,000 ebooks and a...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem or DRM to You and Me

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Who would you place your bet on, Apple, the largest music retailer, or DECE, a US consortium of entertainment, retail and IT companies that ...

ePub Enters the Public Library

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Members at both Cleveland Public Library and CLEVNET member libraries can now download EPUB eBooks from the library's website. The EPUB ...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Blu-ray Maybe Too Late

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Sometimes the spoils of war are too late and surpassed far easier than they were won. Last year Sony appeared to have won a bloody video for...