Sunday, November 21, 2010

EMI versus MP3tunes: A Question of Safe Habour

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We have often raised a question of whether the “safe harbour” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) work. Our point is th...

The Daily: Exclusive iPad News

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Imagine a digital newspaper created specifically for the tablet world and published by News Corp and Apple. No print version, no online just...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Do You Enjoy Social Coupons?

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Yahoo must be kicking themselves for not buying Facebook but in the hairy hit and miss online market you win some and you loose some. Google...

Has Christmas Come Too Early For eBooks?

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The money appears to be on the ebook, ebook readers and tablets being the Xmas gift this year, so we thought it timely to cast a quick view...
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Managing Digital Sales Data

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When we gave physical inventory it was easy to count the books out and count them back in, but in the digital world there is only one going ...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Things Your Mobile Camera Will Not Do

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We recently previewed the Bluetooth mobile camera that fits on the earpiece of the mobile and now we have discovered two further camera deve...

Amazon is Becoming the True Publishing Vertical Business

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So you think you know what Amazon is but think again as the global brand makes more media moves which although small show just how savvy the...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

So What Is Social Reading?

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We read a lot today about social reading which itself is somewhat of a challenge to understand and some would suggest nonsensical because of...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Colour or Black and White Madam?

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E Ink are launching ebook readers with colour screens. The eInk Triton is a 9.7” screen that can displaying over 4,000 colours.It consists...
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Tablet Divisions

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A lot of the debate between the Galaxy Android tablet is to do with whether you are a Apple fan, or sceptic looking for options and alternat...
Monday, November 08, 2010

EMI: Another One Bites The Dust?

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How often do we hear the cry to learn from the digital mistakes of others? The finger often rightly points to the catalogue of mistakes that...
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Sunday, November 07, 2010

The Queen Goes Social

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Facebook now boasts more than 500m users but can now boast royal patronage and the Queen to its list of subscribers. The Queen is launching ...
Saturday, November 06, 2010

Microsoft Out To Spoil The Rise of Android

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Microsoft has reportedly come up with a new way to compete with Google and that is to charge royalty fees to prevent the likes of Acer from ...
Friday, November 05, 2010

Lost Book Sales Dot Com

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Often what you don’t know is more important than what you do know. Finding out why people don’t do something may be more informative than re...

SkyFire Addresses Flash on Mobile

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Sometime someone comes along and demonstrates where the consumer demand really is and show those who ignore it, or think they know better, t...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

UK Copyright Review Must Listen To All Sides

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Nearly a decade ago, I received an invitation to a big BBC lunch to look at the digital world. I turned up to join a group of teenagers and ...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Shaken and Definitely Stirred?

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We are starting to see a shift in backlist authors and agents now starting to take control of their digital rights and separate these out fr...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Hello The World Is Not Flat - It's Digital

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We will once again state the obvious, ‘Publishing is a Rights Business.’ This has always been the case, but as we move into the new digital ...

NBA = Net Book Agency

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We don’t welcome back the Net Book Agreement in the UK and especially through any backdoor and have written before of this somewhat valueles...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

MySpace Going One Way And It's ....

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MySpace was the social network and then came along Facebook. Some would suggest Murdoch bought the wrong one, others that he bought the righ...

4 Glimpses Into Today's Technology

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RadioHead? Why not reduce those mobile phone base stations that blot up our landscape and give everybody a wearable sensor that could make p...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Is Time Up On The Wrist Watch?

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Do you wear a watch today and is it seen as mere decoration and jewellery or a practical tool? Some people today go without the previous obl...

LimeWire Dealt a Bitter Blow

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A US federal court has issued a "permanent injunction" against LimeWire one of the world's most popular peer-to-peer fileshari...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Automated Library Book Dispensers

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Six months ago we spoke at the Seoul International Book Fair in Korea and wrote about a automated library book dispenser (see above) 'Ko...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Amazon Start To Teach Us How To Share eBooks

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Imagine you want to share a book with a friend. Today you simply give them your copy and hope that they will both enjoy it and give it you b...
Friday, October 22, 2010

What Mobile Heavyweight Suits You?

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So you have to buy a new PC but the old one has still got life in it and could be retire to the office if you had the flexibility to work on...

Coffee Latte and eBook to Go Please

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When Starbucks signed up Paul McCartney and others to release their latest albums through them, it was interesting and some would agrue it m...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Public Libraries: PA's Plan Fails to Join the Dots

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We are pleased that the issue of free to lend from a public library, versus a fee to buy from a reseller has been brought out into the open ...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

This is a Rights Business

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This weekend saw an interesting letter published in The Daily Telegraph ‘Books on Demand’. The letter focused on print on demand and claimed...
Monday, October 18, 2010

French Government To Organise A Giant Music Sale

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At what level is government subsidy in the arts acceptable and where is the line? The protesters current demonstrating in France against the...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Borders US Rushes In To Join The Self Publishing Offer

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It appears anything Barnes and Noble can do so following B&N’s launch of PubIt, Borders follows them into the self-publishing beauty con...
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