Thursday, December 31, 2009

2020 Vision: Digital Predictions for 2010 Part 1

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So Christmas and another year are over and the New Year beckons. We are now at the end of a decade that has given us the iPhone, Facebook, M...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Light Up Everything With OLED

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We have reported several times on OLED (organic light emitting diodes) technology and how it could outperform eInk. So it was very interesti...
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Kurzweil Rethinks eBooks with Blio

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It is interesting that someone has realized that digital books are not so much about the device but about the reading platform. The other di...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

iSlate, iTablet iWant

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Will they ,won’t they, is the question on everyone’s lips with respect to Apple and its tablet? After much talk it appears that it is now le...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Quiz Answers: People in Digital 2009

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The answers to our last Christmas quiz on People in digital 2009 1. Margaret Hodge 2. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger 3. Steve Job...

Review of 2009 and Our Predictions

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At the end of 2008 we made 7 predictions for 2009. Many predictions made have now been conveniently forgotten but we stand by our thinking a...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hacking DRM Is Real

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When is a DRM secure and unhackable? When can anyone say that a device is unbreakable? History is littered with stories of people who broke ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Le Guin Resigns From Authors Guild Over Google Settlement

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An interesting letter from letter of resignation from Ursula K. Le Guin to the Authors Guild: 18 December 2009. Le Guin has received 5 Hugo ...

OLPC Show How To Deliver Cheap Tablets

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The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) group has slowly gathered support but more importantly started to question what people really need in a lapt...

Christmas Games: People in the 2009 Digital News?

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The answers to yesterday Quiz were: 1. Friday 13th 2. Larry Lessing 3. Jeff Bezos 4. Germany , their authors and publishers 5. Orphans 6. Ri...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Which Browser Do You Use?

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We were brought up during the Netscape Microsoft browser wars and we thought that we seen the end of the browser battles. However it’s certa...
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Christmas Games: What Do You Know About the Google Settlement?

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The answers to yesterday Quiz were: 1. Book 2. DRM 3. Eight 4. World 5. Textbooks 6. Rs 7. Sorry 8. Right 9. iPhone Apps 10.Donkey 1. Whi...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Christmas Games: Missing Words

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Complete the Brave New World Headlines From 2009 By Inserting the Missing Words The Great xxxx Bank Robbery 0 Hard and Soft xxx Pieces of...
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Just What I Don't Want This Christmas!

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Another unwanted Christmas present comes in the form of a new eBook reader that looks remarkably old and clunky and reminds us of… The Aigo ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Who Is the most Powerful Digital Technology Company in Publishing Today?

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Ask yourself who is the most powerful technical company in publishing today? Is it Amazon, Google, Sony, eInk Corp, Apple? We would suggest ...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Man from Sony Say…

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Sony has a history of getting things both right and wrong. They got the walkman right, they got the betamax technology right, but then they ...

Guilté as Charged: The Great Book Bank Robbery

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Google has at last been found guilty of what we all knew they had done - infringed copyright. Instead of running to settle and pick up the c...

iPhone Now in Second Place In US

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So as we deliberate our next mobile we read in Computerworld that the US iPhone user base is now bigger than Windows Mobile-based models an...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

So Which Mobile would You Choose Today?

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So as we deliberate our next mobile we find ourselves torn between today and tomorrow. We have to double guess what will be the situation of...
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Teletext RIP

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Technology changes and moves at a pace and what we all knew and used only a few years ago can now seem old fashioned, inappropriate and die....

The World Is Not Publisher Centric

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The news Rosetta Books has announced a deal to a one-year exclusive with Amazon for the digital rights of author Stephen Covey should come a...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Random Rosetta Returns With a Twist

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We all remember the last attempt that Random House made to stake out their claim that all the rights they had included digital. It blew up i...

Playboy App Comes to the iPhone

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For those lost what to buy the man that has everything and has an iPhone. Why not buy him a little stocking filler and let him join Mr Hefne...

Can I Return This eReader If I Get One For Christmas?

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So what is different with this new ebook reader? The Libre, from Alutrack, has not adopted eInk but has a monochrome 5-inch reflective light...

So What's Wrong With $9.99?

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When you are uncertain you often decide to hold back and watch what is happening around you. When you feel comfortable, you then step up to ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Kirkus – The Value of Book Reviews in a Digital World?

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The book trade sees yet another change, this time in the closure of the Kirkus Review. Many have not ever seen it, let alone read it and it ...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Moral Music Tales

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One would suggest that the moral that ‘those who live in glass houses should not throw stones’ is both a sensible one and one to follow. An...
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The Deal Is Not Sealed and We are Handing Out Accolades?

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It a sad day when those who have sharply divided the community and tried to brow beat all into a solution that was clearly wanting and then ...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Hart to Hart on eBooks

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Michael Hart is a man with both a mission and a proven ability to digitise literature. He is of course better know as the man behind, or in ...

Hard and Soft DRM: Part 2

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Soft DRM What we have in the physical world today is ‘Soft DRM’. We print a page in the front matter of the book which informs all of the co...

Herding Cats can be Impossible

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Hearst has announced ‘Skiff’ and now finds itself either at worst, working against the news consortium being led by Time Inc’s John Squires ...

Apple and Friends Enter Into The Christmas Spirit

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On the twelfth day of Christmas Apple could have given you, no a single partridge, pear tree, leaping lord or gold ring but twelve tracks fo...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Hard and Soft DRM: Part 1

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Hard DRM Digital Rights Management (DRM) was created to protect the copyright licence from being abused. It was perceived that it was easier...
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A Story in a Sound Bite

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Last night we participated in the most global broadcast of Litpoia After Dark. Its 98th show and one which brought together panellist from C...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

Apple on Demand?

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Apple the pioneer of the digital music download is reported by Bloomberg to be in talks to acquire online music-streaming service Lala. Why...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Views on Futurebook Pricing

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Can you remember when pricing was simple? The jacket stated the price and everyone understood what it was and the margin available. Unfortun...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Can You Cut Your Paper Waste by 25%?

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How much do we all spend on catalogues of all shapes, sizes, frequencies? We all receive the full colour catalogues, some pass more the than...

WiFi and the Digital Economy Bill

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The UK's Digital Economy Bill which is already hitting much opposition with over 22,000 objections listed on the government’s official p...

China Digital Wars

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China is a huge opportunity for all and digital publishing is no exception. It is predicted by DisplaySearch’s 'BUY: e-paper display...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Spam, Spam, Spam

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Spam is the bane of the Internet and we all spend time building rules and junking these unwanted pest. So it was good news to read that Alan...

Mobile Race Has Two Clear Winners

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We have long written that the current mobile wars have at their heart two major keys; applications and technology. The applications wars is ...

Redrawing Borders Part 2

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In the first part of ‘Redrawing the Borders’ we described the changing landscape and the polarisation that is happening across the market. I...