Sunday, May 03, 2009

Hulu Captures Disney

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Hulu, the video streaming site, has now secured Disney, and with it comes ABC. With some 42 million visitors a month Hulu has , in the last ...

Brewster Kahle On The Google Settlement

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Today we read a transcript of an DemocracyNow interview with Brewster Kahle on the Google Books Settlement. Kahle is Founder of the non-pro...

Is GBS The Best of a Bad Job?

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As expected people are starting to realise that the Google Book Settlement delay is a wakeup call to at least consider the future of publish...
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Brainjacking: Something to think about

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Can your secret desires, passing thoughts become public knowledge? The Times claim that Scientists are using technology to open our minds , ...
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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Piracy: Its All About Open Rights Management

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Piracy is a word now synonymous with copyright infringement, but where did it originate from and what is happening today to address it? Ben ...
Friday, May 01, 2009

There Are Big Gaps on The Digital Shelf

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As more books are available as both ebooks and physical ones we find some surprising gaps on the digital shelf. These gaps may be down to ri...

It's a Man's World

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Hachette Book Group USA has launched the "Urinal Test" iPhone app to help promote the "The Man's Book" by Thomas Fin...

Android Moves

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The G1 was the first Google Android phone to launch in the UK through T-Mobile and sales are reported to have exceeded their expectations wi...

You Tube Enables Child Birth

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So your wife is expecting your fourth child and you decide to Google ‘how to deliver a baby’ and you watch a You Tube video on childbirth ‘H...

Rare Book Sells For £35,000

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In these days of ebooks, discount book wars, ‘3 for 2’ offers and digital uncertainty its reassuring that a rare first edition can still be ...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

eBook Reader Line Up

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So as most ebook readers promise to get bigger the new BeBook e-book reader plans to get smaller. The new machine will be the same as before...
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Real Time Digital Conferences

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Today we received yet another email open call requesting conference papers to speak at a major conference this December. Ok 8 months isn’t f...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

So You Think You Know All About Digital?

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People often ask us how we know so much about digital devices, formats, DRM and what is happening in the digital space. The answer has to be...
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US Justice Department to review GBS

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The NYT reports that the US Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google’s’s Book Search settlement wi...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Breaking News: GBS delayed 4 months

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The good news has broken that Judge Denny Chin has granted a 4 month not two month delay on the Google settlemet. Click to read the notice L...
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UK Booksellers association Stands Up Against the Google Book Settlement

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The Bookseller has printed a letter from the BA chief executive Tim Godfray in which he has called for UK publishers to prevent Google from ...

The Great Book bank Robbery; The Heidelberg Appeal

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So what do 1,300 German authors and politicians grasp so collectively about the Great Book Bank Robbery that others have so far failed to gr...
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Spotify Reach 1 Million UK Users

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Spotify the free streamed music service we have enjoyed since its launch in the UK continues to grow unabated and now claims its 1 millionth...

Electrofluidic ePaper

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We are all familiar with eInk technology that is used in the Kindle, Sony Reader, Iliad and many more devices. The technology has a number o...

eMarketing Books

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The world of digital marketing of books is currently a world of experimentation and lots of dots but not many joined up. We have seen; widge...

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Date to be Confirmed

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Google Book Settlement is one week away from reaching first base and what looked an easy task appears to be getting harder to call. The Dist...
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Amazon Swoop Strategically

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A potentially very strategic acquisition was made yesterday by Amazon when they bought the e-reader application start-up Lexcycle. Lexcycle’...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Barnes & Noble Throw Down the MP3 Gauntlet

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Barnes & Noble has announced that www.bn.com has launched its Audiobook MP3 Store. It will provide audio-book downloads of over 10,000 t...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Lost Today But Found Tommorrow?

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Last week The Bookseller reported that Bloomsbury were to launch a "lost classics" list and that Vintage are continuing to build t...

Mobile UK News

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From 1st May anyone with a Skype friendly handset on the 3 network can make as many Skype calls and speak as long as they want. We already ...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Bookabooka Finnish Book Pirate Bay?

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Finnish Textbook Rent Service for students Bookabooka enables students to lend, rent, sell or donate books interactively. with other guys. B...

The Abdication Crisis: UK Publishing Meekly Follows US Digital Marketing

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We attended the London Book Fair this week and hence the lack of articles. Was this due to a lack of real digital news or the fact that many...

GizModo Torture an eInk Screen

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Fun with eInk taking the poor screen to the extreme limits. Watch what an eInk screen can take
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Blackwell's Espresso on Sky News

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This is Sky News piece on the Blackwell POD Espresso Book Machine. Its a pity the book just drops (literally) out!

BBC News Coverage of Blackwell's Print On Demand

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Healy to Head Google Settlement Book Registry

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So what did we learn today at the London Book Fair? First the news that appears to be circulating that our ex pat from the UK, Michael Healy...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Random House Group Explodes the Digital Spine

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The Random House Group has launched its first list of ‘enhanced’ ebooks. ‘Book and Beyond’ is aimed at extending the content past the text ...

The Brave New World Indie Conundrum

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At first glance we read the article in PW ‘Indie Booksellers Debate the E-book Conundrum’ and had pangs of déjà vu. Had we not written about...

Blackwell Steps Up To Local Print On Demand

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We congratulate Blackwell for introducing the first Espresso print on demand machine on the UK High Street. It could start the logical shift...

Mobile World Just got a Lot Harder at the Top

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Who would you blame for a 90% drop in profits? The world’s largest mobile manufacturer only made £108 million compared to £1.08billion for t...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

GBS : Googolopoloy Rules?

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Are we sleep walking into the abyss or will common sense prevail over greed and vested interests? The Google settlement is one of the greate...

Copyright Infringement Consistancy?

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Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were collectively found guilty of promoting copyright infringement th...

Gannett Deliver Bad News

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The plight of newspaper revenues was brought home in the latest figures from Gannett. Gannett’s stable includes USA Today and Newsquest who ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Its a Rights Business With No Rights Management

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Yesterday our good friend Mike Shatzkin wrote and interesting and insightful blog on rights, ‘A serious issue for big publishers’ . The deb...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Kindle 2: Reading Just Got Harder

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So the K2 is the same experience as the K1, or should that be a better experience. You would not expect it to be a worse experience would yo...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Dymocks Stall on Roll Out of Digital Kiosks

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The Dominion Post reports that Australasian book chain, Dymocks has delayed its plans to introduce digital kiosks in every store in New Zeal...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

French Reject Piracy Bill

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French politicians have rejected piracy legislation which proposed that people caught downloading music illegally three times should be cut...

Twitter Oldies

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According to comScore the world of Twitter is exploding with just under 10 million is unique visitors in February. The interesting piece how...

Kindle 3 Versus One Billion iphone Apps

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is developing Kindle 3 and this will be a larger screen version designed to be attractive and c...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Zennstrom and Friis to Buy Back Skype?

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News is breaking that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have made approaches to several private equity firms in order...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Dot2Dot

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Book publishing can always learn from other media sectors. The environment may be different but the similarities are often stark and can’t b...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

We Have Our Say On 'Customer Recommends'

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The news that Borders UK is offering customers 20% off their next purchase if they can recommend a book makes a lot of sense and is somethin...

37 Countries Negotiating a Anti Piracy Trade Deal

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Last week the French Assembly passed a law that forces ISPs to disconnect those suspected of illegally sharing copyright infringing material...

B&N ebook Noise?

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Scott Moritz, writing in The Street.com has started a rumour that, dependant where you stand, may have legs. The rumour is that Barnes and N...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Media Déjà Vu

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Whether you believe that newsprint is solid and just going through difficult times, or it’s terminally ill, or just struggling to change its...

Spotify Continues to Grow Announcing Libspotify

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We have been strong supporters of Spotify, which lets us play music on-demand and share playlists for free if you don’t mind the 20 second a...