Thursday, June 04, 2009

Going From Free to Pay

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John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media Corp. which owns cable channels, satellite-television operator DirecTV and baseball’s Atlanta Braves,...

A Year is a Long Time in Today’s Technology World

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We now see the inevitable division of content delivery focus, with Google going for the online reading route, others sticking to the offline...

HP Have eSkin?

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HP has announced a new display technology called “eSkin”. “HP eSkins is in fact a dynamic digital surface (and not just a static display) t...

Indigo To Launch a EBook Reader?

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CTV Canada broke an exclusive that Indigo Books & Music Inc. are currently planning to go with an exclusive E-Book Reader manufacturer d...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Google's Wave

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Only yesterday we wrote about peeling back the layers of GoogleWorld and now we read about another. Wave, is a new communications platform t...

Pinning the Tail on the Donkey

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Today book pricing can be often regarded on a par with pinning a tail on a donkey. It’s not an exact science, its often a stab in the dark a...
Monday, June 01, 2009

eInk and PVI Crearte One Vertical eInk Company

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E Ink, the company that invented the e-paper displays on all the lookey likie ereaders such as the Kindle, Bebook, Hanlin, IRex and Sony and...

The Show Must Go On?

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Things change. Sounds glib, but reality is that nothing remains as it is forever. So why are we taken aback when many start to question the ...

GoogleWorld Is One Big Onion

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So Google is now officially going to be the biggest digital bookseller on the planet. The New York Times reports on the latest layer to be p...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

3 Screens In One could Kill Single Screen eReaders

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Imagine a screen that operates in different modes; full colour, bright and conventional LCD; a very low-power, sunlight-readable, reflecti...

Connections From Ibiza

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The last few days we spent time with a good friend David Currey in his and his partner Gary Hodge’s wonderful villa on the lively island of ...
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Brave New World's 1,000th Article!

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When we started this blog at the end of 2006 we had just finished the Brave New World report and set out to continue to inform the publishin...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Nokia launch Ovi App Store

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Nokia the number one mobile player has finally launched its Ovi Store. The service will rival BlackBerry, Android and of course Apple’s app ...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Google Attempts to Placate Its Library Community

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Sometimes you read news and can go straight to the core point and understand it other its like treading through treacle and you have top thi...
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iPhone Appworld

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Gartner report that the apps are clearly driving the smartphone market which has grow by some 3% and is now 13.53% of the total number of ph...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Borders Enter A Brave New World

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Borders Uk in going live with its new e-book service in the UK has taken a significant step into the Brave New World we reported on some two...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Pirate Bay Judges Walk the Plank

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The founders of The Pirate Bay were recently found guilty of breaking copyright laws and sentenced to one year in prison. The men were order...

So is $9.99 the eBook Price Point?

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BooksOnBoard, the online eBook and Audio Book shop, has announced a massive discount on current New York Times Bestsellers, slashing prices ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Readers Only Need One Place?

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ReadersPlace aims to be the social networking site for book clubs, offering global interaction, debate and thoughts about their favourite b...
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Who Needs Esperanto

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Esperanto was a ‘quango language’ developed in some vain attempt create a generic language we could all use. It failed. For some time Googl...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Hulu To Step Into Kangeroo Void

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Its ironic that the day that news broke that Orange has decided not to acquire the technology that was developed for Project Kangaroo, Hulu ...

Its Good To Talk

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What may you ask is the mobile termination rate and what does it mean and cost UK mobile users? UK telecomms regulator Ofcom has announce...

So What Do You Between The Sheets?

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We used to curl up in bed with a good book and if we were cold a hot water bottle but today perhaps the computer gives us both and some radi...

Used Games Kiosks

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Ars Technica gave us a fascinating insight into used games with a report ‘The facts behind the game-trade kiosks’ . It tells of a new kiosk ...

Can You Live Even a Week Without Technology?

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The BBC have a video of some teenagers in Los Angeles who took part in an experiment to find how they would cope without their electronic ga...

Looking at the World Through a Lens

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The New York Times has launched a large-format photo blog to showcase photojournalism projects. The blog is aptly called Lens, draws on the ...

How Thin Is Your TV?

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How thin can TVs go? Apparently by changing the underlying technology LG has created what it claims is the world’s thinnest LCD TV panel whi...

Cybook Opus Takes Ebook Readers Smaller

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So as the eink readers go after the textbook and newprint world and get larger one has decided to go pocket size and compete with other mobi...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Palm and Apple Will Contest June

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June looks to be the ‘mobile month’ with the much awaited launch of the Palm Pre in the US on the 6th June and whatever Apple are going to a...

On Demand Overtakes the Rest

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We now have more US on demand and short run titles coming to market than those produced by traditional production methods. However, what doe...

Giving eink a Bad Name?

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So you roll over in the early hours of the morning and look at your watch and can instaly see the time , no more squinting and trying to rea...

Digital Textbooks Are Only Part of The Solution

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We read today in the Bookseller that ‘Amazon prepares for 'textbook e-reader wars'’ . The story emulates from Evan Schnittman, vice-...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Scribd today iTunes Tomorrow?

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Last December Social publishing firm Scribd announced that it has raised $9 million and had hired George Consagra, former chief operating of...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Kindled

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Would you pay to read this blog? The answer would probably a resounding no. We may get upset but the reality it isn’t what you pay for and t...
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You Are Never Too Old

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Who said that the technology and digital revolution was only for the young? When Ivy Bean heard that a 97 year ago French woman was the olde...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Making Your Mind Up or Not?

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Apparently by some divine intervention, or stab in the dark, The New York Times will decide by the end of June how to charge content and wha...

Hearst's Views on Digital Magazines

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The Telegraph covers an interesting interview and article with Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines Cathie Black president of Hearst ...

Spotify Plans and US Entry?

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Our favourite music streaming service, Spotify, which has more than a million UK users and provides a legal alternative to unlicensed file-s...

A Cheap Kindle?

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A Kindle for under $100 on Ebay! Be careful with the splinters in the finger!
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Asus has launched the Eee PC Seashell slimline netbook in London. The 10” LED screen, has a power-efficient Atom N280 processor, 1GB of memo...

No More A Roaming We Will Go?

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Vodafone has become the first mobile phone operator to abolish roaming charges, meaning its customers will pay the same price abroad as they...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sony Reader to Carry Adverts

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New Media Age reported that Sony is likely to soon include third-party advertising opportunities on its Sony Reader as more publishers come ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Encore une fois

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Amazon has announced a new program called AmazonEncore in which they will license and republish previously-published books that they believe...

French Three Strikes Makes the Statute

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The media world has been quietly watching the French attempts to implement a ‘three strikes and you are out’ law for punishing people who do...

Brave New World Revisited Part 1: Are we all Participating

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There have been some interesting debates in the blogshere and over emails about what appears to be the threat of the new entrants and the ov...

BBC iPlayer Under The Sheets?

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We have written before about the hugely successful BBC iPlayer but were amazed that it now claims to stream 12GB of data every second, and s...

Dell Deliver the Mini10 Netbook

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Dell has announced the arrival of its Mini 10v netbook which is now available on it website. So the netbook market is starting to hot up and...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Another Day Another eBook Reader

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We read today in Tech radar of yet another ebook reader set to launch in the UK later this month. At first glance it looks the same as the ...

Book Piracy: A Case of Whack-A-Mole

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Last month we wrote about the issue of digital book piracy and along with others such as Peter Cox at Litopia, raised the bar on the public ...
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Bring Your Own iPhone to College

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It may have been the case once that you could go to school without a pencil or a textbook but the Missouri School of Journalism have taken i...