Slashdot | Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours
(tags: drm ebooks intellectualproperty)
links for 2008-03-29
on 29 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
“Creative Business in the Digital Era”
on 20 March, 2008
Posted in Advertising, Copyright, Development, Publishing
On Monday I attended a fascinating day of talks and discussions hosted by the rather wonderful Open Rights Group looking at “Creative Business in the Digital Era“. The Open Rights Group is dedicated to protecting and promoting digital rights at this precarious point in their history, when the struggle between closure and openness is [...]
links for 2008-03-20
on 20 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
BookRabbit
A social shopping site for books, reported in the Bookseller.
(tags: books socialsoftware)
Brave New World: A New Role for Agents?
PFD is entering a print on demand relationship with Lightning Source which will enable it to bring back out of print works from its authors and estates and makes these available through Amazon and the two wholesaler [...]
the uses of blogging
on 19 March, 2008
Posted in Blogging
Michael and I have been talking through ideas for posts on this blog about blogging itself. These discussions range quite widely and you can expect some challenging words from Michael in due course.
I had a strong feeling, however, that I wanted to start the discussion around the theme of the uses of blogging – by [...]
links for 2008-03-18
on 18 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
Headshift :: Visualising comments in a sensitive debate
BBC2 use novel comment visualisations to handle the online debate for the White season of programmes.
(tags: bbc comments visualisation debate)
links for 2008-03-15
on 15 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
if:book: google books API
Google has finally released an API for Google Book Search
(tags: api google books search)
theBookseller.com
Publishing books in a digital age – address from Gail Rebuck, CEO of Random House Group
(tags: books future randomhouse)
links for 2008-03-14
on 14 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
We Tell Stories
Penguin’s fiction-linked game – due to start next week.
(tags: penguin books gaming)
Harry Potter: the last battle | News | guardian.co.uk Books
“…what is at stake is not just an author’s right to control the publication of secondary works but also the right to publish in book form information that has been previously available on [...]
Do authors deserve ‘a better deal’ from digital publishing?
on 13 March, 2008
Posted in Publishing
Kate Pullinger is one of the most creative, forward thinking authors I know, and she has my utmost respect for the positive way in which she is embracing the digital possibilities of the web, mobile technology and digital publishing in general. So it was with great interest that I read her piece on digital royalties [...]
links for 2008-03-12
on 12 March, 2008
Posted in delicious
Bayer Goes Viral in Web Pitch for Painkiller – New York Times
(tags: viral pharma arg)
The Literary Internet
on 10 March, 2008
Posted in General, Publishing, read/write culture
Faber CEO Stephen Page has caused a mini storm by arguing that the web offers a haven for embattled literary publishing in an article written for the Guardian. Much of the fuss seems to be that Faber & Faber, the epitome of high brow, the aristocracy of publishing etc, is now getting involved with [...]
