Monday, June 16, 2014

Self-Publish And Be Dammed?

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We read today of rise of self-publishing and the claims that ‘Self-publishing boom lifts sales by 79% in a year’ made by industry a...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Midsummer Maddness Book Royalties

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Does anybody know where to find Raymond Buxton? It must be Summer and the heat must be sending some barmy with thoughts of erect...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Blame it All On Amazon

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The papers are full of anti-Amazon rhetoric which some may suggest is being whipped up into a feeding frenzy within the publishing mar...
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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Why is eBook Metadata So Hard?

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Today many continue to pour the physical book content into the digital container and believe that they have addressed the digital opport...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Never Mind the Ethics - Get Children Reading

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Today we are alarmed at the report in The Bookseller that Kobo and Fast food chain McDonald’s are teaming with, Hodder Children’s B...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

HELLO! Books Are Digitally Different

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So what will be the next technology must have and what will drive its adoption? Will media come second and merely follow new technol...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Buy, Read and Then Return Your German eBook?

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When we look at the Amazon dashboard we are often confused as why, or how, there can be the odd one ebook return. After all you can see ...

Do We Continue to Have Ketchup on Your Hands Today?

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We first wrote over a year ago and asked, 'Does Publishing have Ketchup on its Hands?' The article was about about the fast foo...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Making Reading Fit Today's Lifestyle

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Is it a surprise that men read less in today’s channel hopping, multimedia, time poor environment? Are we really shocked to find that...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Does Rakuten Deal in Blood eCommerce?

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Japanese   retail giant Rakuten who own the likes of Play.com and ebook operator Kobo has been exposed by the Environmental Investigatio...
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The Digital Devil's In The Detail

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One of the most disturbing rulings occurred this week in the court of US Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald and relates to a case of copyrig...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

iBookstore Sans Nipples

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Some will say that a picture paints a thousand words, and that book jackets sell books. The Deric Longden ebooks we have published w...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Self Publishing Is Going to Just Get Bigger, Embrace It

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Today we face the prospect of drowning in tidal wave self-published eBooks, YouTube videos, photos, independent music videos and ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

How Do We Compete With Amazon?

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The questions over what the industry can do, or not do about Amazon’s dominance, were raised yet again last week. It was first sparked f...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Getty Lifts Restrictions on 35 Million Images

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When Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, effectively opens its picture vaults to make them library free to use, you have...

Mapping the Internet

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we stumbled across a site Telegeography which hosts visual and interactive maps of the Global Internet and Network infrastructure. T...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Why Was CourseSmart Offloaded?

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This week’s news that the publishing educational joint venture CourseSmart has been acquired by Ingram’s Content Group should be not...