Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Streaming Media In A YouTube World

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We live in a YouTube world which is one that changes how we interact with all media. We once listened, watched and read media, but today we...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Google Must Be Having A StreetView Laugh

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Someone in Google must have more money than sense as they actually deployed their Street View cars to Bangalore. As I write this I am in fa...

Whose is going to Capture the Various Library Worlds

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The library digital world is starting to undergo some serious consolidation and establish interesting partnerships. The market itself is qui...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Are You Selling Your eBooks Via An Honesty Box?

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Imagine you have 100 ebooks and each has to be handed over to not one reselle,r but potentially many. Each reseller stores the files on thei...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Bye Bye Book Of The Month

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Remember those ‘Book of the Month’ Book Clubs, where you often forgot to send the unwanted title back and then spent an age sorting it out? ...

Nokia Open Up A Patent Toll Both

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Nokia has announced that Apple will pay to use the their technologies, and finally ends a long-running patent litigation between the compani...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Apple, Apps and eBooks

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In the current series of the reality TV show, ‘The Apprentice’, Lord Sugar, set his would be entrepreneurs the task of developing an app and...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Agents In A Digital World

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Literary Agents fulfil many valuable roles. There will always be those that are deemed better than others and those who specialise or excel ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

KOBO Has To Follow?

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We have still to address ebooks for free from your armchair via your public library versus ebooks to buy, or licence from the internet. The ...
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Norwegian Wood

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Norway is different but similar to many countries as it grapples with the challenges of a changing book market. It is assumed by many that t...
Friday, June 10, 2011

‘How do we Cross the Digital Divide?’

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Presentation to the Norwegian Book Congress Oslo, Norway, June 2011 I would like to start by offering four observations which I believe help...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Bloomsbury Reader Is Digitally Refreshing

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The easiest way to deal with orphan works is to adopt them digitally, but do so legitimately. This should not be achieved via the back door ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Taschen's View On The Book Future

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Benedict Taschen video from CBS News which is well worth a view and shows that publishing has many roads and how Taschen thinks as a vertica...
Friday, May 20, 2011

eBook Opportunities Are Unlocked At The Sharpe End

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‘Anything you can do I can do better!’ This was an old schoolyard jibe we have all witnessed. We now have the publisher riposte to the actio...

The Times Are a Changin' for Bookselling

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Today we have three stories all of which demonstrate the changes that are reshaping bookselling. Each is a story in its own right and has it...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

‘Livres Modernes’ and ‘Livres Anciens’ in Lille

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Having spent some 72 hours in Lille, the northern capital of France and Flanders we reflect not on the shopping, opera, marathon, Palais de ...

EIink resolution to Increase

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Just as we write about the narrowing of the ereader device choices we have E Ink and Epson announcing a new 300 dpi high-resolution electron...

Back Up Your eBook Files

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Sound advice to all ebook user has been posted on the iFlow website: ‘We suggest that you download all of your books to your devices and the...
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Did Your Phone Ring For You Yesterday?

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Did you miss that important business call or appointment yesterday? We all rely so much on mobile connectivity it can be a real issue, or al...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Amazon's ACX Attempts to Kick Start Audio

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Amazon’s Audible arm has launched ACX, Audiobook Creation Exchange. It’s a sort of rights marketplace for audiobooks that connects actors an...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Blurring of BookWorld Boundaries

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How many agents and authors does it take to demonstrate that digital is different? Jane Friedman’s Open Road clearly identified the opportun...