After writing about the general landscape of digital publishing in South Africa a few weeks ago, I thought it was time to look at some of the specifics. There is a lot of cool stuff going on out there that deserves more attention. Here are some highlights:
- Arthur Goldstuck is something of a web celebrity [...]
Ebooks in Africa: 2
Posted on 15 June, 2009
Posted in General, Publishing
Friday Entertainment: Everything is Amazing, Nobody is Happy
Posted on 5 June, 2009
Posted in General
Via Mark Seabrook of New Holland Publishing. This clip will resonate with anyone involved in digital publishing…
Cool-er e-reader
Posted on 2 June, 2009
Posted in General, Reading devices
Nick sent me a link to the COOL-ER reader, and I have to say I’m impressed. Somehow the launch of a totally new, and if I may say so, totally sexy, device passed me by. This is launching at BEA right now and is available for pre-order in the UK, shipping later this month. [...]
Count Me In
Posted on 1 June, 2009
Posted in Publishing, Twitter
Boyd Tonkin’s article in the Independent argues that the #wossybookclub is a distraction from what books are all about. Many readers I’m sure agree; Twitter, blogging and all the rest of it might not be everyone’s cup of tea.
However I think there is something to be said for it. Jon Ronson was [...]
Ebooks in Africa: 1
Posted on 28 May, 2009
Posted in General, eBooks
Recently I had the pleasure of going to South Africa, and whilst there attended a conference in Joburg on how digital books are impacting publishing, and what kind of changes and strategic decisions need to be effected as a result. In this post I’ll talk generally about the situation out there and in a follow [...]
#wossybookclub digital editions
Posted on 22 May, 2009
Posted in Publishing, Twitter, eBooks, read/write culture
The week has been a twitter with the news of @wossy’s book club, or #wossybookclub as it is also known, or Jonathan Ross’ twitter book club as it is definitely not known. Happily a Picador book was chosen, Jon Ronson’s THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS.
We decided that to get the book as widely distributed [...]
A Bookish Experiment
Posted on 14 April, 2009
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
A while ago you may remember Book Camp, a day of bookish experimentation. On the back of that I’ve been thinking of a bookish experiment and was wondering if it’s been done.
We are seeing a proliferation of reading formats- from grand, Royal hardbacks to reading on the Nintendo DS. Each of these has a different [...]
Don’t Write Off Ereaders Just Yet
Posted on 10 March, 2009
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, [...]
Pan Macmillan and GoSpoken
Posted on 26 February, 2009
Posted in General, Publishing, eBooks
Pan Macmillan are going into GoSpoken, the mobile reading platform. As regular readers of this blog will know, we are big fans of mobile reading and believe it has a hugely significant role in the future of how we read. Our lives are becoming more and more device centric while our devices get better and [...]
