Hello and welcome to 2010, everyone. In each of the last three years, publishers and the media have asked, ‘Will this year / next year be the year of the ebook?’ I think in 2010 we can all offer a resounding ‘Yes’ to that question. Digitalists, prepare for your busiest year ever!
I hardly need [...]
Welcome to the busiest year ever!
on 22 January, 2010 – 11:53 am
Posted in General, Sara's Manifesto
The Third Player
on 10 November, 2009 – 5:21 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices
When we think of the Big Three West Coast tech firms poised to change publishing, we think Amazon, Apple and Google. Between them they embody a shift in discovery, distribution and hardware in reading and typify a move away from the traditional centres of the book world, in favour of more new media-native presences.
Kindle currently [...]
Don’t Write Off Ereaders Just Yet
on 10 March, 2009 – 4:36 pm
Posted in Reading devices
This picture, taken at the R&D labs of the New York Times (featured on the TOC blog), seems to be saying that far from reading devices going away, they are now on an unstoppable trajectory: investment, diversification, rapid innovation, everything is there.
Yet in many ways, other than the blip that was the Kindle 2.0 launch, [...]
Kindle 2: Return of the Design Conscious
on 10 February, 2009 – 10:56 am
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
In hindsight it was always going to happen: we had seen the leaked pictures and the sheer weight of good taste pressuring down on the product development team at Amazon meant that the Kindle would have to get a redesign. But it was still a relief to see that the “retro cool” of the original [...]
eBook pricing: what’s fair / what will fly?
on 28 January, 2008 – 4:29 pm
Posted in eBooks
Till now, eBook pricing policy discussions have been theoretical at best, most proposals prefaced with a flippant, “Of course, it doesn’t really matter all the time there’s no market.” The ground has ever so slightly shifted in 2008: a subtle combination of the Kindle launch in the US (it didn’t light the world on fire, but [...]
Kindle Update
on 19 November, 2007 – 4:01 pm
Posted in Reading devices
News has been coming through all day. Firstly its well worth checking out the main Amazon.com Kindle page. Includes a video demonstration of the Kindle, interviews with Jeff Bezos and a range of high profile writers, a detailed spec, explanations of what functionality are on offer, lists of publications and blogs that can be subscribed [...]
Amazon Kindle Reader Launched
on 19 November, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Posted in Reading devices
After months of feverish speculation Amazon has finally launched its long awaited e-reader, the Kindle. Amazon had been keeping the Kindle under wraps, refusing to answer questions or even confirm its existence, bizarrely maintaining this veil of secrecy even after pictures of the device were leaked to tech website Engadget. In the mean time the [...]
