Thursday, October 29, 2009

100,000 Apple Apps and The Pretenders

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Apple claim that it now has approved over 101,887 applications with some 93,118 being available today in its App Store. That’s some ten time...
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'Help! I'm stuck in a Sony factory'

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While we were in India managing all things digital we got sent this highly amusing photo. It was taken on Saturday in Waterstones Canary Wha...

Google Eyes Up Education

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Google’s empire spreads faster than the British, Roman, Ottoman and other empires. Its reach into the social fabric of life is faster than a...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Publishing in 2010: Part 3

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Yesterday we look at some of the changes that are impacting publishing and posted our thoughts: Publishing in 2010: Part 2 Today we look at ...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Comparing eBook Readers

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A great comparison chart on all the various ebook readers out there from Mobileread http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

Publishing in 2010: Part 2

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Yesterday we started looking at the changes that are impacting publishing and posted our thoughts: Publishing in 2010: Part 1 Today we look ...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Publishing in 2010: Part 1

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When we look around the book industry today we see constant and accelerating change, which is often in conflict with previous changes, or th...
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Mobile Week

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One of the smartphones we eagerly await is the Nokia N900 and although you can already be pre-ordered directly from but still has no availab...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

eInk and Chips

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Today the cost of eInk devices is still high and although it is falling the drop is not sufficient to engage mass adoption. The devices are ...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Litopia New Site

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Now and again a fresh perspective on publishing comes along and engages with the audience on the matters that count to them. Peter Cox has w...
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Kindle on the PC (not Mac)

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Obviously not a great thing in itself but means that all the bases are covered in Kindleworld. This may present a better option for those wh...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Pricing Winners and Channel Losers

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The US digital edition of Stephen King's "Under the Dome," a new 1,088 page novel, will be released 1 month after the hardback...

Does Two In One Offer A New eReader eDGe?

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So we have the Nook which finally combines the two worlds of greyscale eInk and full colour display.We hear much talk and speculation of an ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Google Spreads Its Reach

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So what does Google want to be when it grows up, or should that be what doesn’t it want to be when it grows up? Last week we had the announc...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Fancy an eRoll-up or a bit of Nookie?

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Lately it feels like you turn your back for a minute and up pops another ebook reader and today is no exception. AUO have announced a 6” fle...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Spring Design Show That Two is Better Than One E-Reader

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Spring Design has announced an e-reader called Alex, which some believe may be the long awaited Barnes & Noble device. Alex has a 6″ e-i...

HTC Hero, 3 Mobile and Spotify

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Mobile phone operator 3 has been somewhat lagging behind the iPhone party in the UK but today has announced that like its pioneering of Skyp...

eBook Devices Are Multiplying

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Walking around the Frankfurt Fair and especially in Hall 4 one was impressed with the number of ereader devices on show. The booths weren’t ...
Friday, October 16, 2009

So where Do Read An eBook?

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So we think we have to compete with the usual suspects for leisure and entertainment time? However it is clear that people’s habits young an...

Zennstrom and Friis Enter the Music Streaming World

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We have written much lately about the digital music streaming services spearheaded by the likes of Spotify and now those serial digitaria Ni...

One Laptop Per Child Scores Heavily In Uraguay

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We have not read much about the ambitious one laptop per child initiative lately but far from doing nothing it has been busy and now Uruguay...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tools of Change Lands At Frankfurt

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So Frankfurt started with a full house at the inaugural Tools of Change conference at Frankfurt. All the right people were there and the exp...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Is Book Retailing Predicable?

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So as we have been thinking a lot about music and the retail impact of digitization, we now wonder what will happen to bookstores in the fut...
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Sky To Enter The Music Streaming Business

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So Sky has announced that it is to launch an online music service that will offer customers access to more than four million music tracks fo...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

LG Offer eBook Readers Solar Power

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LG has announced that it has developed a solar panel for a Sony e-book reader. The chip is less that 1 mm thick, 10cm wide and 10cm long and...

Musicians Want the RIght to Terminate Licences in 2013

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Apparently today musicians can’t revert their rights ,so if the sign up to a bad deal they are stuck with it. But this is going to change an...
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Winnie and Tigger Go On A Digital Venture

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Children want books that engage them, often with pictures that help them to visualise the story and expand their interest. Do ebook readers ...
Friday, October 09, 2009

A Billion Videos A Day

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It seems a lifetime since we talked about the superhighway being a ‘dirt track’ and questioned whether the bandwidth would ever happen. We n...

B&N To Go Colour Screen?

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So is Barnes & Noble launching their ebook reader next month or next year? A 6-inch touchscreen with a virtual keyboard from Plastic Log...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

Does Flash Have An iPhone Workaround?

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We applauded the announced move to get Flash established across the smartphone world, even if this excluded the iPhone. This is not just abo...
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The Great Book Bank Robbery - Think Again

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Judge Denny Chin has set November 9th as the date by which Google and its partners must submit a revised settlement for the court’s prelimi...
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UK Mail Mounts As Amazon Votes With Its Feet

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Earlier this week we wrote about the challenges that Royal Mail has given Internet commerce and small businesses. Now comes what could be a ...
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Are We Listening To The Music Industry?

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We are often asked to look at other media segments and learn from their experience and one that is often quoted is music. We are also often ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

In Rip Off UK You Could Pay 25% More For a Kindle?

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The long overdue event has finally happened and Amazon is shipping Kindleworld outside of the US. Will it raise ebook sales – almost certain...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

eBook Pricing Remians 'A Dog's Dinner' - All Over The Floor

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Mark Coker the founder of Smashwords wrote a provocative piece in the Hugffington Post this week entitled ‘Why we need $4 Books’. This raise...

Stop Making AdSense?

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When they first appeared we tried AdSense and AdWords but found that although it may work in specific markets or genre, it didn’t work acros...
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Paul Henry Smith and the Fauxharmonic Orchestra

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When do you pay for an orchestra and when do deploy a digital one? Paul Henry Smith fronts the Fauxharmonic Orchestra which is comprised of ...

A Bit of Everything Mobile

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The Toshiba Biblio handheld reader has been announced. Is it a mobile phone, a reader and mini notebook or a hybrid looking for a home? Mayb...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Goods Still Have To Be Delivered

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In 2001 UK’s Royal Mail service tried to rebrand itself as Consignia, but soon rebranded itself back as Royal Mail. Having wasted public fun...

The Digital Will Change In A FLASH

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We may be at the cusp of a major step change in how we present digital content and context which may go further than many expect and make di...
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Look, No Power Cables

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Ever sat in front of TV and took a long hard look at the myriad of cable at the back? As we sit ay our desk we look underneath and see a sea...

Another Day Another eReader

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We start to wonder whether we have seen some of the new ebook readers before? Note only do they have the same ‘lookie likie’ screen technolo...

Is 3D TV the next Wave?

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Could 3D TV be the next thing after HD TV. Existing 3D camera set-ups use two-camera systems to capture the left and right eye of the viewer...

The Evening Standard Gambles On Free

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Newspapers can’t seem to decide what to charge or not charge for their content and the impact is not just with digital but physical copy too...
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Sharing Content is Easy, Tracking Isn't

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A good friend of ours often tells us about the latest challenge they face as a publisher in tracking down copyright infringement. We find ou...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Vook: Sounds Like?

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When we heard of the release by Simon & Schuster of their Vook we were intrested to see it and understand how it linked multi media. The...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

HBO Cube: A Different Perspective

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Sometimes you see something that makes you look differently at things and shows you what is possible in this new digital age. We have talked...