Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Digital Future: Copying Files Made Simple

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Remember some 15 months ago we told you about Pranav Mistry of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his quest to ...

Pearson Adds Schoolnet Its Platform Offer

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Pearson, has acquired US digital education service Schoolnet for $230 million. Schoolnet was founded in 1998 and helps teachers in student a...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Nook Stops Short

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Is the Barnes and Noble Nook Color, an ereader eink killer, or an iPad tablet competitor? Barnes & Noble’s updated e-reader Nook Color c...
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See You In Court

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Are the only real beneficiaries of the new technology age the lawyers? We have seen the music industry take legal actions on copyright infri...

Sony Network and New Tablets Collide

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Some have been known to release bad news when there is lots of other bad news, but not good news on the back of bad news. However, Sony has ...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

A House of Books

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Are You Mac or PC?

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In November 2009 Hunch asked its user base ‘Mac or PC’ and got over 76,000 responses, today it has nearly 400,000 responses. Since Their ori...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Amazon Overdrive Potentially Lock Up Libraries

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It’s ironic the day after we wrote about Amazon joining the dots they take another stride and connect some more. Today Amazon has announced ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

24Symbols: The Start of Books on Demand

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Way back in January 2010 we wrote the following as part of our 2020 predictions: ‘This year will start to redefine ownership and see the ent...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Smartphones Killed The Video Star

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Remember when only a short while ago everyone was raving about the cheap Flip digital video camera from Cisco. Well Cisco last week killed i...

So what do you want on your mobile phone?

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16 mega-pixel camera. Pocket-now have leaked a video which promotes a new HTC smartphone with a 16 mega-pixel camera and dual LED flash. 16 ...

Rethinking the Future: The Digital Divide

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We would like to offer three observations which we believe are fundamental to the future of ‘the book’ and rethinking the future. The first ...
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Autography: Is It Wise Dotcom?

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First we had Pen and the distance author signature, now we have Autography which allows authors to insert an autograph or salutation directl...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

eBook Growth Faster than Print Declines

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Books could soon start to follow some of the demand trends experienced by music. AAP have released data from their 14 reporting US publishe...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The LBF Debate On Relevance Of Publishers

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The London Book Fair has once again come and gone and to some we spoke to there was little change to others the future was clearly keeping m...
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 ...