Thursday, March 12, 2009

Oh Brother! Yet Another eBook Reader

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Read an eBook week seems to have caught on in the east with yet another pretender new ebook readers First we have Brother, the company famou...

Does Apple Share Our Dream?

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Reuters deliver an interesting report that claims that Apple will take third-quarter delivery from Taiwan touchscreen specialist Wintek of a...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Welcome to the Screen Racers

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HP has just set up a company, in collaboration with 3M spin-off, called Phicot to make plastic eink screens which if successful could cost a...

Talking Tracks - The New Shuffle

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While the world was debating a new iTouch versus a Apple touch screen netbook, Apple brought out a talking iPod shuffle. The new stainless s...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Google Twittering ?

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Just when you thought the world of acquisitions was slowing down we read today an interesting column in eCommerce Times titled ‘Will Twitter...

Wolfram Alpha to Take on Google?

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As rumours surface about Microsoft still being interested in Yahoo and reopening the ‘will they won’t they ‘or on off search engine wedding ...

Wrist Phones - Room For a Kill?

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So James Bond has got competition! First there was the LG wrist phone and now another Korean company has enter the market with Hyundai Mobil...
Monday, March 09, 2009

Music Goes Down The Tube

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YouTube is to withdraw all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Socie...

Hachette Embraces Bookshare

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Producing books for the visually impaired has always been difficult as they needed special large print, Braille or an audio edition and th...

The iPhone Overtakes Windows Mobile in Nine Months

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Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS has had the most applications available for many of its 9 years. However, App Store tracker 148Apps.com no...

Becareful What You Wish For - NelsonFree

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The film business has a staggered release strategy, which over time becomes shorter and often a little confusing as the stagger varies often...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

Should Music Contracts Reflect Today's World or Yesterday's? Part 2

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No sooner had we posted our copy yesterday than the jury has ruled in favor of Universal Music Group in the label's court battle against...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Should Music Contracts Reflect Today's World or Yesterday's

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The one-week trial between Universal Music Group (UMG) and F.B.T. Productions (Eminem) closed this week with FBT asserting that ‘When a musi...

National Digital Library Tickets?

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The Bookseller today covers the UK shadow culture secretary Ed Vaizey thoughts on their , "Renaissance for Libraries". Much of wha...

The Newspaper Project

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We have read much about the death of newsprint and the difficulties it faces on many fronts. A group of newsprint executives who wanted to ‘...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Groundhog Day - The Pixelar eReader

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Can you name this ebook reader? Well it looks familiar, and not unlike so many so we were intrigued to see if was any different. The review ...
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'Rock Band' Book The Beatles

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The Beatles music may still not be available for sale on iTunes but soon many will be able to experience them in their own room and live the...

Facebook to Revisit Classified Ads

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Facebook is to upgrade its online classified adverts by teaming up with Oodle to launch a new classified section that combines selling and ...

For Those who have Everything

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Have you every wondered who dreams up some of the solutions that sound good at a glance but just lack real substance when examined more clos...

Barnes and Noble Acquire Fictionwise

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The ebook reseller Fictionwise has acquired by Barnes and Noble for $15.7 million. The news and an exclusive interview with Fictionwise’s Sc...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

iPhone Makes Music

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Take four girls, one cool cover and a bunch of iPhone and iPod touch apps and you can clearly create something uniquely different.

For Sale - Friends Reunited

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Broadcaster ITV is to let 600 jobs go and are looking to sell its Friends Reunited and Scoot websites. Chairman Michael Grade is widely rep...

Thew Great Book Bank Robbery - Its All About Orphans

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As the clock ticks slowly towards the Google settlement closure, voices are starting to be heard and debate is starting to take place. It ma...

Amazon ebooks Now on iPhones

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Owners of a iPhone or iPod Touch can now access and read the same content Amazon content as the Kindle. Amazon have taken the logic step tha...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Can I UseYour Screen Please?

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Just when you thought that the keyboard was going to die and that touch screens were the new thing Asus have caused a stir at CeBIT with a k...

Dream PC?

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Back in October 2008 ASUS and Intel launched WEPC.com. The sites slogan was you dream it, Asus Builds it, Intel Inside and it was all about ...
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Mobile and iPhone Growth

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Its interesting that on the same day we read that O2, who own the exclusive contract on iphones in the UK, is reporting that it has sold a m...
Monday, March 02, 2009

What's in the Name - Netbook?

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We can’t use the term netbook and will find another word for it. Perhaps; spacebook, notebook, mini-laptop, handtop, handbook, whatever. App...

New eBook Readers for 2009

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Another show, another launch, more announcements and even more speculation on the ebook front. Following hot on the heels of the mobile pich...
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Hearst to Move Onto eInk?

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It is unclear as to whether individual media companies will follow the Amazon route and build their own devices and try and control their ow...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

Google News Adds Ads

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Google have started to run small text ads on the pages of its Google News service. This again raises the advertising debate between Google a...

Kindle Text to Speech Part 2 - The View From The Other Side

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Technology is supposed to enhance the experience, convenience and introduce new features that aren’t available through the existing environm...

‘Ugh …You Again’ an Interactive eBook for Kids by a 10 Year Old

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A comical insight into a student's struggle when her ‘worst friend ever’ returns and she faces being forced to be friends with the goody...
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Missing That Common Touch

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When watching Jeff Bezos on the Daily Show one of the most embarrassing moments was when he used those three letters DRM. You could see an ...

Spotify Convergence?

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When we want to listen to music our first choice today is to click to Spotify set up our playlist and relax. The UK and Swedish free ad paid...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Kindle Text to Speech - Make Your Own Mind Up

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We came across two interesting articles which are worth reading about the Amazon text to Speech conflict with the Authors Guild. We believe ...

Amazon Back Off or Redrawing the Lines?

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Last night we were once again on the Litopia After Dark panel and one of the interesting debates was on the subject of Amazon’s Kindle 2 te...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Nokia To Make Laptops?

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When first heard the rumour we had to draw breath but given all the PC manufacturers are moving into the Smartphone market why not the smart...

Penn University to Scan on Demand

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The Google library scanning program has been very successful in its appeal to many libraries in scanning the public domain works and now man...

After the Bond Watchphone now a Bond eReader

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We have the James Bond watch from LG, which coming soon to an Orange store near you in the UK. Now we have a special 007 ebook reader editio...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Safari 4 Has Landed

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Apple has released a new beta version of its Safari 4 Web browser for both PCs and Macs claiming it the world's faster browser executing...

Google Mobile on Windows Mobile

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If you have Widows Mobile you can now have an improved Google search application
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This Book Is Only Available At....

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We read about exclusive deals with retailers, exculsive deals with digital devices, exclusive releases that are only initially available via...
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Bezos On The Daily Show

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Make your own mind up but its funny and shows how not to sell ebook readers The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Jeff Bezos Dail...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

GMail's Lights Just Failed

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It’s alarming how things just fail. When it’s the car or something in the home or office, we invariably utter some choice words and move one...
Monday, February 23, 2009

Supply Chain Thoughts 3 Digital Reality

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Digital logistics presents opportunities that enable the book trade to remove the physical logistics constraints that caused so much waste. ...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - As Long as Google Exists

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Ars Technica reports today on the chairman of the Association of American Publishers, Richard Sarnoff’s speech at Princeton on the Google Bo...

A Splash of Colour Makes A Difference?

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When you buy a car do you buy the grey model or the vibrant red? The Dell Mini 10 certainly will put some sizzling looks into the notebook r...
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How Do You Want Your News Tomorrow?

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The financial burden from an advertising downturn, rising costs for newsprint, the migration of readers to the Internet, the huge debt some ...

Happy Birthday Litopia After Dark!!

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We are pleased to celebrate the first birthday of Litopia After Dark . It seem an age since we were first asked to contribute to this extr...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Supply Chain Thoughts Part 2

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How many books are given away as review, gratis, or inspection copies? In the academic world, inspection copies can often account for a doub...