Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Amazon Continue On Their 'Mission'

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Remember those early Amazon days when people said they wouldn’t make profit and that they could continue to run at a loss. Amazon stuck to t...

Public Libraries, The Internet Archive and Double Standards?

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As libraries become a battleground for ebooks, who will win the digital library business? A heated debate appears to be looming as the Inte...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Place Your Bets: Amazon, Apple or Google?

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The battle between Amazon, Apple and Google is heating up and each are clearly adopting different strategies and book market positions. Foll...
Monday, June 28, 2010

YouTube is a Safe Harbour

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Safe harbour is one of those relatively new concepts which syas that in principle a Internet service can’t be held responsible for what othe...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Project Canvas Steps Forward

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The BBC has been given the go-ahead for Project Canvas which could be a major step in the evolution of full internet TV and is likely to be ...
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Library Budget Cuts And Challenges Are Global

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In the US library budgets are being slashed. New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a budget reduction in state aid to libraries of $2.5 ...

Plastic Logic to become an Urban Myth?

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We all waited and waited and waited. Everyone said it would change the face of eInk and take it into the corporate space and bring newsprint...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Bibliophile Offers Thousands Of Collection Points

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Sometimes something so simple is created one wonders why it hadn’t happened before. Today a 30 year old UK mail order and online bookseller/...

Sorry No Case for The NBA

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We read many blogs and articles, which like ourselves see only part of the picture. We also read the feedback and comments made sometimes by...

Wanted Digital Piracy Director

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We have seen an increased effort by publishers to track down piracy and now Macmillan U.S. operations whose imprints include Farrar, Straus...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

2000 Years of Art but Apple Knows Best - Update

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Perhaps sense does prevail in Appleworld after all. We wrote previously about Apple censorship of comic nudity in a new rendition of James J...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Do Pixels Per Inch Matter?

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How many Androids equal an iPhone? Some would say that the iPhone is better than them all but the reality is that the healthy competition th...

News Corp Buys Skiff

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News Corporation continues on its somewhat unclear digital strategy and the company has announced the acquisition of the digital Skiff platf...

Selling Your House Via Google Maps

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So you select an area you would like to live in on Google maps. You can look at street level, review where all the local schools, doctors, s...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

When Is Tablet and eBook?

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We all know that there are a number of players focusing on the textbook market and Apple is about to join them. So it was refreshing to see ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Kindle Goes Waterproof

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There will always be cool accessories for gadgets. Some will be useful and beg the question why they weren’t done in the first place, others...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Irex The First of Many eReader Casualties?

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IREX Technologies BV developed the first eInk way back in 2004 and spun itself from Royal Philips Electronics a year later. It has champione...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

2000 Years of Art but Apple Knows Best

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Steve Jobs is getting a track record for hypocrisy. In 2008, on commenting on the Kindle he said, "It doesn't matter how good or ba...
Monday, June 07, 2010

The New iPhone 4 and iOS 4

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Steve jobs has announced at his Worldwide Developers Conference the iPhone OS 4.0 and iOS 4. iOS 4 will support; multitasking, folders, imp...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Cambridge University Library Digitise Their Treasures

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Cambridge University Library has been a legal deposit library since 1710 and since that date has acquired a copy of each book and journal pu...
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Want A True Media Playing Tablet?

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We are going to see many tablets to compete with the iPad and many appear to be coming on the Android platform today. So Google is going hea...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

litopia After Dark: The Longest Digital Day

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litopia After Dark last week ran to one of its longest podcasts and cover book ownership, self publishing and much more certainly worth a li...
Friday, June 04, 2010

Charge Your Mobile On Your Bike!

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The simplest of solutions are often overlooked or suppressed. There have long been patents that would dramatically reduce our dependency on ...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

Sony Predicts - A New Writer's Prize

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We read in the Telegraph that Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division, claims, ‘Within five years there will be m...

Is Publishing Digital Ready?

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Pricing is a very emotive subject be it physical, digital, rare , bargain or any book. Who sets the and controls the price is itself centre ...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

The $100 Tablet Cometh

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Would you buy a tablet if it cost $100 US? What if it was powered by a 1GHz Maxwell Armada 610 application processor that could encode and d...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Wired Gets Wired

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Wired magazine has to many been the guiding light informing many as to the opportunities and challenges of our new digital age. Its somewhat...

Will Dedicated eReaders Survive the Mulit Media Push?

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Last week Jeff Bezos stated that a colour Kindle was some way off and that he had "seen several things in the laboratory, but they are ...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

JK Rowling To Go Digital?

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J K Rowling has always stood firm against ebooks and was even subject to a 2009 April Fools joke stating that the anti ebook author was goin...
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Sony on a Roll

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So you fancy rolling out a screen so thin it can be wrapped around a pencil? Sony has announced a rollable full colour 4.1" OLED displa...

Who Will Win The Pooles?

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We must now rethink storytelling in this new media world. This doesn’t mean we divorce ourselves from the written word, but merely from some...

Beware of eStangers

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Beware of strangers was and is good advice. This week we read that Google Editions is aiming become the wholesale digital aggregator to the ...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Kindle DX Fails The College Test

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Last year Amazon went on a campaign to win over college campuses with to their Kindle DX. The big question is whether it passed or failed th...

Kenya to Nationalise Textbook Publishing?

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Imagine the government stating that they were to start to publishing textbooks and in doing so obviously take control of the market. Would i...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Pick up an iPhone Bargain at Wal Mart

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Why pay top ticket for the latest must have when you can buy it at a price we can all afford in a supermarket near you. Be it the latest Dan...
Monday, May 24, 2010

eBooks: Free From A Public Library Near You

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We have raised the issue of the UK public library versus the High Street and seen little constructive movement. Some would argue that the pu...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Epson To Enable Colour eInk

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We have long said that eInk today is ‘black and white TV in a coloured world’. The reality is that consumers want colour and a media converg...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Google TV

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Google has launched a TV service that starts to redefine the television and continue its convergence with the web. The "smart TV" ...

Japan Faces Digital Black Ships?

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We naturally assume that the Japanese market is far more advance digitally than the West but that is not the case. The lead that they have s...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Android 2.2, Faster and with Flash

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Android has now attracted 21 hardware makers and 60 carriers in 40 countries and there are now over 60 compatible Android devices. Google cl...