Friday, November 27, 2009

Redrawing Borders Part 1

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The news of Borders UK going into administration demonstrates the changes happening in book publishing. It will be bad from many and good fo...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

iMagworld

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Imagine joining all the publishing houses together on one digital platform that will support every conceivable device from mobiles to PCs. ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tesco to Sell iPhones

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It seems the UK is now open season for all who want an iPhone. Only yesterday we were offered one from a service provider who isn’t supposed...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

What ELSE Would You Want?

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Having been alerted to the new and ‘next iPhone killer’, we spent time absorbing the slickest, heaviest and at times, most frustrating marke...
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Line Up The Exclusive and Special Editions

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Here's a good game for Christmas - line up the Sony exclusive readers. 1. UK retailer John Lewis exclusive. 2. The Ian Fleming / James B...

Exclusive Digital Bundling To Sell More Tin

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Bundling a ebook reader to an exclusive ebook launch is a bit scary, as it sets yet another ‘exclusive’ deal and feeds on scarcity and deman...

Fry Tweets His Objection to Mandleson's Piracy Bill

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Stephen Fry is once again showing the power of Twitter and using it to try and thwart the government's proposed internet piracy legislat...
Monday, November 23, 2009

'Pieces of Eight' : Parts 2 and 3

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Pirate Empathy Some artists understand copyright and have long protected their works others know little and clearly get confused. NME cover...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

‘Pieces of Eight’ Part 1

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Today we hear all about the world of DRM (Digital Rights management), copyright, pirates, and a wide debate on what is fair use and what is ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ordnance Survey Maps for Free

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The UK Government has announced that Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010. The objective is to jo...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Google Applies Lipstick to The Book Settlement

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Well for most people Friday 13th came and went and left them unscathed. Unfortunately, before the clock could strike midnight Google deliver...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Moto Portable Media Players

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We came across Moto Labs by accident but where struck by the clarity of their thinking and positioning of Google's Android operating sy...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Google Sets Its Sights On World Domination

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We haven’t had time to digest the latest maneuvering in the Google Book Settlement, but will do so soon. Meanwhile Google continues to stret...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Are Symbian’s Days numbered?

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Symbian once ruled to mobile waves and was the operating system used by the major players. Then Nokia acquired it and ‘opened it up for all’...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The £1,500 eReader

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VentureBeat review gave us something to think about, the $1,500 digital reader from Intel. We automatically think is this like comparing app...

Predicting Endangered Gadgets

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What do you believe will be the top ten ‘endangered gadgets’ that will need luck to survive the end of 2010? Pixmania, the largest electroni...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Another eBook 'Lookie Likie'

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Now we suggest you decide what is different apart from the name? We bet you can even give the specification of these devices without looking...

Sky Sports Are Cheaper on an iPhone

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Today Sky charges from £26.50 a month for Sky Sports 1 or 2, or £35 for its total sports package - excluding ESPN. Now Sky Mobile TV, the la...

Where In The World?

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When it comes to looking at new offers we always like to check out the deal – doesn’t everybody? So looking at the new 'Kindle for the P...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Shazam Cashes in with Premium Service

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One of our favourite iPhone apps is Shazam. We sat at David Byrne concert and pointed the iPhone at the stage and instantly knew that song t...

GBBR: Beware Friday 13th

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Who would pick a day such as Friday 13th to go to court? Rather than bury themselves under the sheets and wish the day away, the parties to ...
Sunday, November 08, 2009

U2 Open Up New Revenues Online

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We once watched sport for free on TV but increasingly we now have to pay to watch it live and even those national soccer games are under thr...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

GBBR: Monday 9th November 2009

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We may all remember this date in the future. It is the date when the perpetrators of the Great Book Robbery stand once more before the court...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

More eInk and Chips Please

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Its Friday so it has to be more eInk and Chips! Last month we wrote about eink and chips and Freescale Technologies teaming up with eink to...

A Day At The Tablet Races

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So who will emerge in the forefront of the tablet race? Some ask if there will be a race or will the bookies favourite ‘Apple’ merely turn u...

The iPlayer is Coming to TV

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A few years ago we all had to have a VHS player, then a DVD player and some made it as far as Blueray, but streaming the Internet and consol...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Mobiles, eBooks, Androids and Media

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The Pulse Report from San Francisco-based analysts Flurry claims that in the last four months, book apps have exceeded the popularity of gam...

Confused.com

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We get confused when we type in ebooks.com and ebook.com and discover two different Australia companies both selling ebooks. Must be somethi...
Sunday, November 01, 2009

eInk at 200MPH and Clearly Round the Bend?

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When we see the current eInk eBook readers being brought to market we wonder how many the market can absorb and how many will loose their sh...
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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...