Sunday, January 31, 2010

Are Apples Go For You?

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We all watched and waited with open breath as Steve Jobs unveiled the latest iP – the iPad. So we started with the iPod, iTouch, iPhone now ...
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Rumble in the (Amazon) Jungle

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Last week was a big week for books with everyone expressing their support, or their concerns for Apple’s industry game play on their iPad. P...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Rethinking the Future: A Different Perspective

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Sit back and allow your mind to take this in. It makes you think differently and points to a future that is different to the view we may hav...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Music on Demand = Book on Demand?

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As we sit and listen to Spotify, free over our Android phone we now read that HP has joined forces with Omnifone, a cloud-based unlimited mu...
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MusicDNA = BookDNA?

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Music has gone through the hedge backwards over the last decade, It has seen a powershift from the music companies back to the artist and th...
Monday, January 25, 2010

"Please, sir, I want some more."

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Are authors revolting? Some would leap to the barricades before we have had to time to explain that the question is not aimed at a general v...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Amazon part 4: Give it Away

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The New York Times asks the question ‘How do you make your book a best seller on the Kindle?’ Their answer: Give copies away. The article p...

Amazon Part 3: 70% Royalty

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There are many issues in the Amazon announcement that, starting in June, it will offer 70% royalties on book sales after delivery costs, whi...
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Amazon Part 2: DRM Free

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Amazon’s Digital Text Platform which I aimed at small publishers and authors, now gives publishers the choice to “not enable digital rights ...

Amazon Part 1: Kindle Apps

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The Amazon is the world’s longest river and has such crosses much territory and many lives and is not unlike its namesake, the world’s bigge...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Sky News Reports On eBooks In UK

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A Sky News piece piece with ourselves in camera
Friday, January 22, 2010

And Our Mobile Winner Is...

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So in the week the world was Slated and Amazoned , we took the long overdue step of upgrading our mobile. We choose Android and HTC Hero an...

Reconciling Digital Sales Isn’t Easy

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Does a publisher always know what has been sold and how much they are owed? In the physical world it is a relatively easy to account for and...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Mobile World Continues Spinning

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Today we read that many of the leading publishers are cutting deals their with Apple and while we all deliberate on this, the potential iTun...
Monday, January 18, 2010

C4 Book Club: Oi'll Give It One

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'The TV Book Club' was broadcast last night on UK Channel 4 and if you missed it you cand see it by clicking here . We found oursel...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Where Did All The Music Retail Go?

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We often are asked why we think that bookstores can survive better than their counterparts in music? We have said that many will not adapt a...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Unroll the News

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Can you imagine sitting on a train unrolling or unfolding your flexible screen and having instant access to whatever newspaper you want and ...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Upload and Wait = Digital Piracy?

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Today’s trade press is littered once more with assumptions about the state of book piracy and its impact on revenues and the market. This is...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

2020 Vision: Textbooks Must Be Digital

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A new California law, Senate Bill 48, says any individual or company selling textbooks to the University of California, California State Uni...
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Is Digital Collaboration In Publishing Feasible?

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We have long argued that those best suited to leverage and promote the digital opportunities, are those with the most interest in the physic...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Google's China Crisis

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In an interesting and somewhat surprising move Google’s Chinese relations have worsened, to the state that they have decided to take on the ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

GBBR: Right On Chinese Authors

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So when is it right to apologise to one group of people but not apologise to another when you have done exactly the same thing to both? The ...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

eInk Today But Gone Tomorrow?

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It now appears that anyone electronics firm standing has created their own ebook reader. Everywhere you turn you find a new one and as we ha...
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Saturday, January 09, 2010

News versus Noise: CES Part 1

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So what else has emerged from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week? The Greening of Notebooks Sony introduced not one but four n...

There's Money In That Slushpile

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So how much is the Publishing Slushpile worth today? What would you pay for a pile of self published books which have not seen all those val...
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Friday, January 08, 2010

Everybody Must Get Taxed

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If we adapt some well know Bob Dylan lyrics to ‘Everybody Must Get Stoned’ and replace the word ‘stone’ with ‘tax’ we have some reality of h...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Tablets Slate 'Lookie Likie' eBook Readers

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It’s a new year and as always the Comsumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is bombarding us with new ereaders, tablets, mobiles, TVs etc.Today...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Hodge-Potch of a Library Policy

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In our New Year Predictions we made reference to the opportunities and dangers that face the digital public library in the UK. We have writt...
Monday, January 04, 2010

The Author Is Victim?

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In the article which was published in the New York Times today, ‘There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen’ ,Jonathan Galassi, the Pr...

Palm Wake Up But Has The Coffee Gone Cold?

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Palm Pre was launched with much fanfare and was to be the next iPhone killer with its new smart webOS platform but has failed to capture the...
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A Tablet A Day...

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So the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is about to open its doors with two of the biggest players lurking outside, Google poise...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Who's Brand Is It Anyway?

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So you think you own a brand and can control it in a global economy? Surely no one can pretend to be Pepsi, Wal-Mart, Apple, etc.? The Inter...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

Another Year and More 'Lookie Likie' eBook Readers

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Ok we can't separate these two new eink 'lookie likies' on anything other than looks so can you spot the Owen E1 and the Dulin ...

2020 Vision: Digital Predictions for 2010 Part 3

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Having already made seven predictions for 2010 and into the next decade, we continue and offer our final three. 8.Publishers We have talked ...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Is Google's Nexus One About to Take Off?

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So what are Google going to unveil next Tuesday at their big Android press gathering? Many believe that they will launch the Google Nexus On...
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2020 Vision: Digital Predictions for 2010 Part 2

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Yesterday we looked at the first four predictions for publishing in 2010 and into the next decade. Today we continue and offer a further thr...
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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