Monday, January 31, 2011

Facebook Deals Comes to Europe

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One day after saying that the social network giants were keeping to their own tracks Facebook declared that it is to launching a deal servic...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Are You Linkedin?

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Facebook is for friends and family, whereas Linkedin is for business and contacts and Skype for international VOIP. That’s the way we use th...
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David Byrne: Talking Ahead

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We often look at individual promotions and see an innovative approach or some joined up thinking and Bicycle Diaries from David Byrne is jus...

'Obscurity is a greater threat to writers than piracy'

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In 'Litopia After Dark', panellist Nic Alderton gave us a great quote 'Obscurity is a greater threat to writers than piracy...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

eBooks Can Be So Taxing

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A group of some 42 MPs have signed a House of Commons motion by Glagow Labour MP Tom Harris advocating the scrapping of VAT on ebooks. The p...

Kindle Direct Publishing Arrives With TED

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Today we have the launch of TED Books and the rebranding of the Digital Text Platform (DTP) to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) . What both v...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Litopia After Dark: £1 Books – Fleecing The Writer Or Flogging A Dead Sheep?

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Last Friday we were once again on that stimulating and provocative Litopia After Dark Pod broadcast. We even missed the beginning of the re...

Music Unlimited: The Gang Show

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If you can’t beat them then join them. After years of feeding new start-ups the major record labels have finally got together to start thei...

Can You Hear Me Major Tom?

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Normally, space exploration creates new technologies, which in turn are adopted to create new terrestrial products. Now UK engineers are pla...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Who Owns That Song?

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The music industry are committing to build a song rights registry which will help it develop and work with new online music services and als...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Publishing's 'Napster' Moment is Now!

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The Book Business is now experiencing its ‘Napster’ moment. It is not about file sharing and digital distribution, but about an industry fac...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sony eBooks Finally Make the Platform Party

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There is a clear move away from the single platform ereader offer, to one that is capable of rendering ebooks on all platforms. This doesn’t...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Amazon Take All Of LoveFilm

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If you already own 42% why not close the door and buy up the remaining 58%? That’s what Amazon effectively have done today in acquiring the ...

Flat World Knowledge Gets Bertelsmann Investment

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Bertlsmann are putting in $15m funding for Flat World Knowledge, a college textbook publisher seeking to commercialise “open source” educa...

Universal Donate Musical History

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The music producer Universal Music Group, has donated the largest ever collection of music to the US Library of Congress. The donation is o...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Connecting the Unconnected for £98

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We have seen the start of a government drive to address the great unconnected in the UK. If may be ensuring all have the same opportunity in...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

CAMBO – Campaign For Real Books

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In the UK and increasingly right across Europe, beer drinkers are familiar with CAMRA, which since it was formed in 1971 has grown from stre...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

DRM Hacking Now At The Back Door?

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We all know about the issues of trying to track copyright infringement. We have seen many torrent scripts that claim to break various DRM en...

eInk Goes To War!

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We had to remind ourselves it wasn't April's Fool Day when we read a rector in The Telegraph that UK defence contractor BAE Systems...

What More Can Any Music Lover Want?

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Two of the most successful and innovative music services Spotify and Shazam are planning to team up connecting Shazam users directly to musi...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Google Make a Wise Move On eBooks

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I remember fondly walking into the offices of ebook technologies in San Diego some three years ago. We say San Diego, but in reality they ar...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Swiss Army Dongle

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Sometimes you see a gadget and get it straight away, on other occasions you simply question the logic. Today Gizmodo covered The world'...
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Should Digital Public Works Be Exclusive?

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According to The New York Times , the European Commission look likely to respond to the pressure to limit the amount of time private compani...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Microsoft Objects to Apple 'App Store' Mark

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Apple is the master of trade marking and wanting to stamp its mark on all things. It took them some 30 years to finally draw closure on the ...

Paper Not To Be Wasted

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Paper costs are rising not by a few points but by a whooping 25% this year. That pressure is coupled with other cost rises and makes the new...
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Piracy Continues

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First there was Napster who opened the door for others to follow and now we find that there are now a large number file sharing sites and th...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Dual Core Smartphones Set to Shake the Market

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A new era of smartphone will hit the streets next month with the launch of the first dual core smartphone, the LG Optimus 2X. The LG Optimu...

British Library Opens Its Rare Treasures In Apps

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You can now view 100 of The British Library’s rarest works on your iPhone, iPad or an Android device. Search categories such as Science, His...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

Firefox Grabs European Top Slot From IE

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer has fallen from its number one slot as the most-used browser in Europe. According to StatCounter, Firefox ...
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Would You Buy an eBook Reader Off This Man?

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When we saw the promotional billboard outside Waterstones store in Bath we thought we should see what the consumer experience would be. We l...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Its The Same Old Song

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When sales fall six years running you have to be brave to keep faith, or have a trick up your sleeve. When the drop happens during a period ...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

Book Pricing Madness?

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Today we took these pictures in Adsa, Island Gardens, London. Just in case you can’t see it the price of the majority of the books is £1. Ye...
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