Thursday, March 31, 2011

Will Kinect Be Bigger Than Tablets?

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Speaking at a lunch held in Sydney by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Microsoft ‘s chief research and strategy o...

Google +1 = Social

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Google’s hold over the search world is significant and everyone understands the term 'to be Googled'. They have built a massive busi...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Music Lessons?

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Music is a complex business that is not just about selling recorded music. It like all media is fundamentally a rights business with creatio...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Asus Eee Pad Transformer - Tablet or Laptop?

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The first table we saw that impressed was a HP laptop whose screen could be swivelled and the reason it was impressive was it was then used ...
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MySpace Heads Downhill, Whilst S&S Seek A Tweens Social Solution

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Remember a social networking site called My Space? It transformed Lily Allen from a bedroom performer into a star and the Arctic Monkeys fro...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Catherine Cookson: The New Agency Model?

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When you have sold over 100 million books, been the most borrowed author for many years in UK public libraries and had many of your works tu...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Great Book Bank Robbery - Feedback

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We have all read the press coverage, but what is often far more enlightening is industry and specific feedback from blogs. Here are some art...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Great Book Bank Robbery - A Close Shave?

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Remember Judge Chin and the Google Book Settlement? Well it appears that the judge has finally made his ruling and his answer is NO! We obvi...

Amazon Dump Lendle By NoReply eMail

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Amazon has acted and effectively shut down, Lendle, revoking its access to the API that made their ebook lending service possible. Interesti...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Come Fly With An eBook

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Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, has four hundred etitles available in English or Chinese which can be read in the airport on some thir...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Are eBooks Being Straight-Jacketed by pBook Thinking?

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Today many see digital as an evolutionary and perhaps it’s the assumption that are being made in this thinking that is causing the issues, c...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

HTC Flyer Tablet On Its Way Next Month?

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HTC’s Flyer will next month enter the tablet wars and it will offer something different – pen input. This will make it maybe a little more t...

Half The UK Registered on Facebook!

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Experian Hitwise’s latest report claim that social networks are the UK’s favourite online destinations. Facebook and Twitter registered 2.4b...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

YouTube Quality To Improve With Green Parrot

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We found today’s news that Google has bought Irish company Green Parrot Pictures with the objective to improve the quality of the video foot...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

EU Aims Their Arrow+ on the Heart of Digital Copyright

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There are two rights issues we have written so much about over the last few years, one being the hierocracy that publishing is a rights busi...
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'Smartphone and Free Kindle', Certainly Sir!

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If you were a ereader platform and wanted to extend your market in the UK the best option to do it is through bundling it in with mobile pro...

Zune Today, Gone Tomorrow

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Microsoft may have made history with the sales of their Xbox Kinect but it appears the writing is on the wall for their Zune media players. ...

Freeing eLibraries to Compete?

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The book world appears to be caught wanting on one hand to promote reading, the love of books and sharing books as an experience and at the ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Nanotubes Could Make Mobile Life Even Easier

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Last month we wrote about Nano technology developments at Harvard that could revolutionise chips now we have nanotube technology from a tea...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Kinect Officially The Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device

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What holds the record as the fastest selling consumer electronics device? Could it be the iPhone, Kindle, iPad , Playstation, xBox, or was i...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

iPad2 and the Tablet Contenders

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Apple has launched its second generation iPad tablet computer. The new model has a faster processor, front and rear cameras, improved graphi...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Bibliophile Granted Royal Warrant

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Booksellers are often the unsung heroes of the book trade. They are the ones that engage with the consumer, entice them to buy and effective...

BBC To Make International Service Cheaper Than UK

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It as if all media is caught between, digital sales versus digital subscriptions, versus digital bundles , versus digital free. It is someti...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Digital Library Madness: 26 and You Are Out

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In being able to potentially offer ebooks for free and from anywhere, against the retail model of payment, the digital public library now ch...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

GBS : Today's Mary Celeste Mystery?

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The Mary Celeste was a brigantine merchant ship that was found on 4 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, i...

Alex eReader Joins The Scrap Heap

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CES 2010 was the springboard for ereaders with many new devices coming to the market. It was clear that there would be casualties and that o...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Bookselling Now Faces the Need to Change

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The BBC recently ran a series of programmes which brought home the changes in High Street retail and how retailers have had to adapt to cult...
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HTC UK's Number 1 Smartphone

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Apple's iPhone has slipped from number one to sixth place in the list of the most sought after smartphones in the UK claims mobile track...

Amazon Prime Head to Head With Netflix

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Amazon has announced the launch of new video streaming service that gives Amazon Prime members unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Daylight Robbery

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Window tax was introduced in England and Wales in 1696, effectively taxing houses by the number of windows they had. Many windows were merel...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Who Wins As Bookselling Suffers?

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We are hardly 7 weeks into the New Year and we have already had more bad news on the book publishing High Street than in the whole of last y...
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