Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sony Buys All Sony Ericsson

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Sony who was once ‘the’ electronics brand has had it share of market slippage and some years ago felt it had to enter the mobile market in ...

For Book Depository Read Amazon

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The UK OFT (Office of Fair Trading) has today cleared Amazon’s proposed acquisition UK Internet retailer The Book Depository. Many objection...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Amazon: Fiction Prizes, Japan and KF8

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Another day and that great river Amazon keeps on flowing. Today three disjointed pieces of news demonstrate why Amazon continues to chart it...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Facebook: For Delete Read Archive?

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What do you say on social networks and who you connect to may be one thing, but does the information collected against you go much deeper? I...

Nokia Slip Further Behind

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There was a time not so long ago when Nokia could do no wrong and they dominated the mobile Market. However, today their market share contin...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A New Era of Author Care?

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We live in a connected world where information can be instantly available at a click. However, information on book movement and sales has to...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Can Kobo Win at the Races?

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Racing it’s not just about the horse, or the rider, the form book , the course and the conditions. The winners and losers are often decided ...

Fancy an Ice Cream Sandwich?

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As Google unveils its latest edible operating system upgrade, Ice Cream Sandwich, we consider what this means to the consumer on the street?...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

My Blackberry is not Working

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Tales From Typographic Oceans

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Remember those great vinyl album covers of yesterday? We have a lot to thank the recently departed Alex Steinweiss for in inventing the cove...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

The Book Dating Agency

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There are many lost and lonely manuscripts looking for a friend. Like finding a partner some are fortunate to have a good active social circ...
Friday, October 07, 2011

Springer To Be Never 'Out of Print'

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Imagine one publisher offering some 100,000 ebook titles and those went back to the 1840s and including authors such as Albert Einstein, Sir...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

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Of everything one has read today about Steve Jobs this told us much about the man Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 This is a prepared text of ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

An Indian Tablet for $35!

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What impact would a $35 colour tablet have on the consumer, education and business? Yes we did say $35 or £23! That sort of price would tu...

Connected at Supersonic Speed

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BT is set to launch a fibre optic service that is capable of delivering up to 300Mbps (megabits per second). It may sound like a case for ...

Kindle Fire is Blazin

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When Apple first launched its iPad2 it sold 2.5 million units in its first month and set the bar very high for all that would follow. T od...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Livres Ancients Livres Modernes

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There used to be a category of retail for books at UK Companies House. There is however one for, newspapers, stationary, magazine and other,...
Monday, October 03, 2011

Samsung’s Galaxy Note: a Smartphone, or a Tablet

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Korean giant, Samsung has many supporters of its leading edge technology and its smartphones today are second only to Apple in terms of sale...
Sunday, October 02, 2011

Should Art Remain Physical?

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One of Mike Shatzkin’s insights that he gave in his article on, ‘ Four Years Into The eBook Revolution’ has stirred much debate and is wort...
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...