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 [...]
The Third Player
on 10 November, 2009 – 5:21 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices
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, [...]
TOC 2009 (Tools of Change, or Twitter-Optimized Conversation)
on 23 February, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Posted in TOC 2009, Twitter
Last week my head was stretched and generally messed with as speakers at the bleeding edge of digital publishing held up grand futuristic vistas of possibility: this week it’s been bashed and generally beaten to a pulp by the challenges of getting the last wrinkles in our beautiful new ebook platform resolved (‘what do you [...]
my tee oh see
on 17 February, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Posted in General, TOC 2009
I’ve had a full week now to digest my TOC experience in New York and hopefully I will manage to capture in this post the many points of real value that I gleaned from it.
For those of you I didn’t meet on Twitter, it was actually me behind the @thedigitalist tweets, not Sara. Like [...]
Digital Books Are Already Here
on 3 February, 2009 – 2:04 pm
Posted in Development, General, eBooks, read/write culture
Quite frequently I hear people talking about the future. They will argue and pontificate about when the new digital book, the new digital fiction, the new digital culture will arrive. In the world of digital publishing futurologists abound as we all try and work out what will happen next, even as we are still working [...]
Google Knols
on 19 December, 2007 – 4:47 pm
Posted in Library, Search
Google has announced a new initiative that threatens to seriously disturb the precarious knowledge ecosystem of the web: Google Knols. The project is still shrouded in mystery with only one screen shot so far released and only this Google blog entry, by VP Engineering Udi Manber, to work with. Predictably the blogosphere and [...]
Titans at War!
on 23 October, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Posted in Search
Google Book Search has been much publicised and has become a shorthand for both the colossal ambition of Google and its casual disregard for intellectual property or the sensitivities of potential partners. The latter are possibly unsurprising for a company that has seen profit growth of 46% in 2Q07, added nearly 3000 employees in the [...]
Taking Over
on 22 August, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Posted in General
Ofcom has released a report detailing how, basically, the internet is simply smacking every other kind of media. Reported on the BBC and in the Guardian what seems to be causing a stir is not that usuage figures are up 158% since 2002 but that it is women and the so called “silver surfer” that [...]
