We invited one of our fave authors, David Hewson, to blog his experiences using a Sony Reader over the next week or so. David’s hardly a technophobe, but on the other hand he ain’t no geek. Here’s the first of his guest posts as he begins his journey into ‘digital reading.’
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Author meets the future: how electronic is it?
on 26 November, 2008
Posted in Reading devices, Search
Pan, Stanza and the iPhone
on 24 November, 2008
Posted in General, Reading devices
We’re very excited that from today, if you have downloaded Stanza on your iPhone, you’ll be able to read excerpts of some of our titles on the iPhone. We’ve forged a partnership with Lexcycle, the creators of Stanza (which has half a million downloads). What’s more because the full version of these titles are available [...]
Stuck
on 19 November, 2008
Posted in Advertising
[see below the fold for the photo] You may remember Benrik from the Facebook app or the Recession Blocker we previously featured on The Digitalist.
Well this is a whole new level. A Benrik super-fan agreed to have himself pasted to an advert on Old Street for as long as it takes. For all I know [...]
Second Life / Second World
on 18 November, 2008
Posted in Development, read/write culture
A few years ago Second Life was everywhere. It wasn’t just in the papers; the papers were in Second Life with Reuters famously employing a journalist, Adam Reuters, to scout for interesting in-world news. There was a political riot when the French Front National set up shop; companies like Rivers Run Red sprouted [...]
links for 2008-11-17
on 17 November, 2008
Posted in delicious
Safe from the Losing Fight » How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence
Andy Finnell blogs about iPhone app pricing
(tags: software pricing marketing iphone free economics design business)
links for 2008-11-11
on 11 November, 2008
Posted in delicious
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
The online reading of The Golden Notebook starts today.
(tags: dorislessing thegoldennotebook literature interactive reading online)
links for 2008-11-08
on 8 November, 2008
Posted in delicious
theBookseller.com
Speech entitled 'Media's Last Diehard?', which was delivered as part of the London School of Economics' series of public lectures, on the evening of 4th November.
(tags: publishing economics books ebooks digital future)
The 26th Story: Tribes author Seth Godin discusses free content and the publishing industry
Seth Godin answers The 26th Story's burning questions on their blog.
(tags: [...]
links for 2008-11-07
on 7 November, 2008
Posted in delicious
Times Emit: Victoria Barnsley, HarperCollins CEO, on “Publishing: Media’s Last Diehard?”
James Bridle's notes
(tags: digital future)
Victoria Barnsley on ebooks
Digitisation offers an end to unwanted inventory, no more returns, no more out of print titles and greater value attached to obscure titles
(tags: ebooks future)
