Brave New World

Topical items and views on the impact of digitisation on publishing and its content and the issues that make the news. This blog follows the report 'Brave New World', (http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/vcil/bravenewworld.html ), published by the Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland and authored by Martyn Daniels. The views and comments expressed are those of the author.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Txtr RIP?

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Provisional administrator Christian Köhler-Ma has been appointed to German ebook service provider Txtr. Txtr provided ebook solution...

Sly Stone To Finally Get Paid

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The music industry history is littered with artists who claim they were duped into bad contracts and not paid a fair amount. There a...

Maybe Harris Should Drink Some Costa Coffee?

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What is more important and best for books, a group of intellectuals sitting round a table, or on a couch, talking about a book, or a g...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Wise Investment: Kieron Smith or Blinkbox ?

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So would you invest in a service that still has to prove itself or someone who has done it more than once and brings ability to the ta...

'The Times They Are A Changin'

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Nielsen's 2014 annual review of the music industry has negative signs in front of chain store sales (-20%), total new album sale...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Kindle Self-Publishing eTextbooks Offer

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The internet age has started to enable classrooms without walls, or even borders and promote the leading educators to engage with all ...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

DRM Is Not A Binary Decision

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Consumer rights with respect of ebooks continue to be up in the air. Only last week, Sony, the prime driver for Adobe’s ACS4 adoptio...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Should the Underground Offer Commuters an eBook Library?

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Imagine getting free access to an electronic library when travelling on the tube. Well that is what  travelers  can now enjoy on Line 4...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Apps versus the Mobile Web

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Unlike that old question, ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’, we know the answer to which came first, the web site, or the app...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Google Without Glasses and Going to Bits

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All technology has a  life cycle  which starts with creation, through; prototyping, adoption, adaption, development and finally obsole...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Jellybooks Introduce ePub Reader Analytics

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The buzz is currently is about big data, or collecting very granular consumer and transactional information and then being able to a...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Signed Copy of The Bible

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Somehow we think this may be a mistake!
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Monday, January 05, 2015

Bookshop Beacons Across The UK?

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Forrester Research claim consumers are using tablets in their living rooms (67%), bedrooms (60%) and even their kitchens (42%), but sm...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Zuckerberg (Facebook) Declares A Year of Books

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Celebrities have always influenced what people read, listened to and watched and we have many book examples such as Oprah in the US ...
Friday, January 02, 2015

Simply Producing More Books Isn't The Answer

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What happens when the amount of books available to read exceeds the market’s ability to read them! We have always struggled with mor...
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Apple Gives Free 14 Right to Cancel in EU

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We could never understand why Amazon allowed ebooks to be returned and found it very frustrating when every month one always appeare...
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Martyn Daniels
Before entering publishing I worked for many years as a Senior Executive in blue chip organisations in the retail, oil and automotive sectors. My publishing induction was initially as Director of Strategic Development at VISTA. There I was responsible for, and a contributor to, their highly acclaimed ‘Publishing in the 21st Century’ research series, the primary creator behind publishing services PubEasy and ‘batch.co.uk’, the initiator of the development of new Front Office systems to support publishers. In 2006 I joined Value Chain International(VCIL) initially as VP Marketing, Media and Publishing before becoming their President in 2009. In July 2011 the company's operations were acquired by Syncordia. I hold two non executive positions with publishing industry players Bibliophile Ltd and Haven Group and currently setting up Read Petite a service focused on providing digital short form material online via subscription. Email mdaniels@opus57.co.uk
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