Friday, August 30, 2013

The Polarisation of the Civic Library?

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In stark contrast to the new £188 million Library of Birmingham, we read of yet more cuts of some 20% to library service budgets in An...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Spacey Questions 'Yeterday's' Media Practices

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When someone of the status of Kevin Spacey does a keynote speak at the Edinburgh International Television Festival about media and c...

The Mysterious Bookshop Finds A Survival Answer?

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Sometimes we miss news, or items, which at the time didn't make our radar. Today we come across one such story, which at a time ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Spotify For Trade eBooks?

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Many talk about creating a ‘Spotify for eBooks’, but all too often they fail to grasp the differences between the media, marketplace a...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

More Ketchup With Books On The Side

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Earlier this year we wrote an article, ‘Does Publishing Have Ketchup On Its Hands?’ , which was about the promotion of free books wit...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Amazon.com And You're Done

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I remember in the late 90s siting in a strategy board meeting, where one director predicted that Bertlesmann would ‘crush ‘ Amazon a...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Watermarking DRM Could Offer New Opportunities

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Many see DRM as a glass half empty and also a barrier to interoperability, others see it as a means of restricting abuse, copyright ...
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On-demand Media and Sensory Devices will Change Culture

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Our dependency on electronic devices has grown over the last decade. We now appear to be entering yet another cycle of the technology...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Retaining Author Relationships In A Transparent World

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Technology and communications are changing not only our culture but also our relationships with others. It is not just about how a...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Books on Film

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When my wife’s Bibliophile book business started its YouTube video reviews some two years ago, we all questioned whether the effort w...

Rethinking Marketing and Discoverability for Today

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‘Digital publishing is publishing’ and the news this week from Bowker that online sales have reached 44% of total sales should not c...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Learning From The Best POP-UP Bookshop Experience

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Merely handing over the business to the digitally enlightened is not the answer, just as pretending digital will not happen was not th...

Bezos Enters Newsprint World

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Jeff Bezos has thrown down the gauntlet to the newsprint world and is acquiring the Washington Post for $250million. The questio...
Monday, August 05, 2013

Are Bookchains Merely Shuffling Deckchairs on the Titanic?

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Change is demanding and be forced on companies by a declining or changing marketplace, or may be proactively adopted by others adopt...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Print is Dead?

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A very funny obituary to the passing of print from The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/articles/print-dead-at-1803,33244/
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Dumbing Down of Textbook Publishing?

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The textbook market has always offered high reward and with it high risk. Many have tried to corner the market including the big te...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Does Copyright Stifle or Enable Creativity?

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Now and again you find a talk on copyright on TED from   Johanna Blakely    that makes you think and see things differently. Blakely challe...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Deric Longden: R.I.P. A Funny and Caring Man Who Shared All

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This weekend Annie’s stepfather Deric Longden sadly passed away. Deric was a bestselling writer, a journalist, broadcaster, scre...
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