Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Amazon Tablet - The Price is Right

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At $199 Amazon has proved it knows how to price. The question now is whether consumers want a Rolls Royce or a mini. Despite no mike or came...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Suppression of Writing

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More and more authors are now considering digital publishing opportunities and are taking control of their own works. New ventures such as U...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Kindle Is More Than A Tablet

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What are you doing on Wednesday this week? There are strong indications that Amazon are to announce its long awaited tablet offer in Manhatt...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

What is the Value of Your Direct Customer List?

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Everyone in direct marketing be it mail order, ecommerce or just mailing knows the value of their list. This comprises all their customers a...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Digitally Wallpapering Library Shelves?

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We can now see a big question mark over who, how and what is the digital future of our public libraries. Again we need to look at the US tod...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

It's Good To Talk Socially

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So is it cut and dry that Facebook rules and the rest remain ‘also rans’? It’s true that the more we invest our time and capture our informa...

Paws in The Proceedings

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Some would suggest that 12 weeks is a long time during a period of rapid change, others that it is a mere blink of an eye. For the last 12 w...
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 ...