Thursday, January 06, 2011

Amazon Just Keeps Flowing

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt predicts that by 2015 Amazon could be as big if not bigger tha...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Is eBook Exchange Wise Dot Com?

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An old Shaman Friend from Canada, Duke Redbird, once wanted to test new ecommerce ideas in a real time online environment and called it ‘Is ...
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The Weakest Book Chain Link?

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The demise of the current book chain channel is probably far more predictable than the demise of the independent bookstore. These retail gia...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

CES: Smartphone Runners Neck and Neck

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A new report released by Nielsen on January puts Apple iOS as the top smartphone operating system with 28.6% market share ahead of RIM's...

Kenya: Why Not Digital Textbooks?

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It not often you see the third world demand for textbooks and potentially a OLPC program brought home so starkly as in an article in the Bus...

Do Not Track Me!

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The US Federal Trade Commission has proposed that consumers be allowed to subscribe to a "do not track" system similar to the ...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Ten Digital Reflections

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If we look back over the decade of the ‘noughties’ we see ten technology/service step changes which have all in their own way enabled publis...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

2020 Vision: A Look Back At 2010 and Thoughts on 2011 Part 2

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At the end of 2009 we made 10 predictions for 2010 and today we quickly review the last 5 of these. The objective is to understand the shift...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

2020 Vision: Review of 2010 and 2011 Predictions Part 1

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At the end of 2009 we made 10 predictions for 2010 and today we quickly review the first 5 of these. The objective is to understand the shif...

Can We Secure Our Privacy?

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Hot on the tail of this year's Facebook issues over privacy and the question of Google's Street mapping program collecting extra dat...

OLPC: Needed for the UK?

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The recent Minimum Income Standard report in the UK proposed that computers with internet were ‘ essential for households with working-age...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Nook Gives Christmas a Miss

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Barnes and Noble has received many admirers for its latest Nook coloured reader. Imagine giving a brand new Nook to someone special for Chr...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Can Authors Now Do It Digitally Themselves?

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Is this is the long-awaited dawn of creative writing, where digital not only redefines the book, how it is created, developed, promoted, dis...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Acer Tablet Cometh

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Tablets are to become the device of 2011 and the choice will be wide but they will all be chasing the iPad. Among the Android followers is A...

Branson's iPad Project

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Sir Richard Branson, is the UK media magnate, industrialist, airline operator has built a wide range of businesses on his Virgin brand. Virg...
Friday, December 24, 2010

IBM Look Into The Big Blue Skies

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Remember that once technology giant IBM? There was a saying once, ‘you never get the sack for buying IBM,’ but those heady days of mainframe...

eBible Delivered on a Digital Tablet

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First there was the tablets of stone that came down from the mountain, there was of course the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Guttenberg Bible and th...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Slimline LG Please

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The upcoming CES (Consumer Electronics Show) at the beginning of next year is going to once again excite and stir the market with new innova...

Libboo: Crowdsourcing a Novel

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It may not be as focused, or well constructed as Michael C Milligan‘s livewriting project , but Libboo aims to achieve a similar result – a...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Mobile eReaders Just Got Smarter

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Ebook reading has moved from being restricted to one device, to being interoperable and enjoyable across multiple devices. We now have to ac...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Lillian Teaches Us New Social Tricks

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In the past we have written about Ivy Bean who died at 104 earlier this year. She wass a very active user of twitter with tens of thousands ...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Now Who's Bottom Of The Class?

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First it was a slide ruler, then a ready reckoner, then a calculator, now a US state exam board in Oregon is to allow students not only onli...

Today DRM Tomorrow?

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Amazon’s TV kindle advert is both a powerful and compelling one which ticks most of the consumer buttons. It says to the consumer that they ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Japanese publishers accuse Apple of copyright infringement

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Apple stand accused by a consortium of Japanese book publishers of copyright infringement in that they a selling pirate titles through their...

Playboy Get a Hard Drive

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Stuck for a Christmas present for that male boss, pal or partner? Bondi Digital Publishing, is offering a very special gift for those lookin...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Kobo Goes Social

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Kobo Introduces Reading Life from Kobo on Vimeo . Social reading is about creating an engaging experience that we as readers what to share...

Music Lessons?

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During a Christmas shopping expedition we went into HMV and discovered that the format has radically changed. CD Music was now at rock botto...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Digital Lessons: Magazine Brands

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We may assume that magazines will be an obvious digital winner and that the physical format has a very limited life, but perhaps we need to ...

Digital Writer's Block

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We have always read about writers block and of stories where even the best of authors have found themselves ‘frozen at the typewriter’ and h...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Sony Say Yes to Japan (Again) But No To Denmark

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The news that Sony was going home to Japan to launch its latest devices in Japan this month along with a dedicated virtual library brought b...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Have We been Googled?

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At Frankfurt in 2009 we attended the Google announcement on Google Editions. At the time it was somewhat overshadowed by the debate over the...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A Rights Business With No Rights Registry

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Many see digital as opening up new opportunities one of which is to identify those old best sellers that have gone out of print and get then...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Tax Can Be So Taxing

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When austerity is all around, many fundamental givens start to get reviewed and often what we all took as a universal practice may appear to...