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Publishing technology and digital publishing strategy blogger, speaker, author
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Outperforming Books at Getting a Job Done
November 16 2009
Clay Christensen talks about how people hire products to do jobs for them, and for a very long time books have been the best performers at doing certain types of... read moreWilliam Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke
November 07 2009
via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the... read moreMichael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)
November 07 2009
via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about... read moreQwitter: Accessible Twitter client (uses TTS) (via @doctorow)
November 05 2009
Just make sure not to follow anyone who's a member of the Author's Guild ... "The Qwitter client enables blind individuals to interface with the Twitter service globally, regardless of... read more"Web-based ePub validator adds Preflight and API" (via @liza)
November 04 2009
From @liza at Threepress:"EpubCheck’s lesser-known companion checks for additional issues like content documents that exceed 300K, which can’t be loaded on the Sony Reader."http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/04/epub-validator-updates/(ps -- thanks to @liza for making... read moreInteresting TV subscriptions via iTunes in the works? (via @jafurtado)
November 03 2009
Reports suggest Apple is shopping $30/month TV subscriptions via iTunes (I cut the cable nearly a year ago for AppleTV and haven't looked back -- totally worth it.) http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091102/apples-itunes-pitch-tv-for-30-a-month/ Posted... read moreFree news but paid comments? (via @adamgaumont)
November 03 2009
Not sure I agree with the conclusion, but the journey was articulate and entertaining on the changing economics of media. http://sicmind.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/premium-content/ Posted via email from TOC Posterous... read moreEarly Registration Now Open for TOC 2010 New York
November 03 2009
Early registration is now open for the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference returning to the Marriott Marquis Feb. 22-24 2010.The program for TOC 2010 reflects how quickly the... read moreDespite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)
November 03 2009
O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book... read moreBooks overtake games in app store (1 in 5 new Oct. apps was a book) (via @gigaom)
November 02 2009
"Book-related apps saw an upsurge in launches in September, according to a survey conducted by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile application analytics company. So much so, that book-related applications overtook games... read moreThe Meaning of Droid | Monday Note
November 02 2009
Nice competitive analysis of next moves for big mobile players (via @jafurtado)"One year later, we have a new situation, a real contender for the lead position in the exploding smartphone market.... read moreAndroid's Impact on eBooks, Reading « Kindle Review - Kindle 2 Review, Books
November 02 2009
The big Android question is - Is Android going to provide a fourth big channel for ebooks? Well, Android might be Very Important for eReading The first reason is that Mobile Devices and Mobile Internet... read moreIn-depth insight from Tim O'Reilly on lessons learned from Safari Books Online
November 02 2009
"As I outlined above, Safari adopted a "cloud library" model rather than downloadable ebooks as its fundamental design metaphor. I thought it might be worthwhile to understand how we arrived... read more"E pluribus tunum: Uniform prices for online music are no way to maximise profit"
November 02 2009
This research suggest maximum value in a digital media market like iTunes (for both producer and consumer) comes from a combination of subscription/membership fee and per-item purchase: "Charging an "entry... read moreNew info on upcoming Ibis Reader from @liza's threepress -- another books-in-cloud model
November 02 2009
Our part of this open ecosystem is Ibis Reader, an in-development digital reading system for a range of internet devices that provides access to books both online and offline.... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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