DRP 2010

Digital publishing company Pressmart Media is launching ePortal, a hosted service which includes tools for content and interface management that will allow publications to post and update a variety of content to a domain of their choice.

Content is moved online, whilst advertisers have been slow to follow. Channel 4 decided to put the most channel's content online in full online, including advertising.The broadcaster will share the revenues earned with YouTube.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt points out that it is unlikely to pay for the content as there are many free sources available on the Internet at a press conference in Sydney.

Rupert Murdoch states that serch engines such as Google News need to pay the content fee for news providers at the World Media Summit in Beijing

Detailed website about ebook readers

Not bad website which evaluates various ebook readers.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.

the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.

Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

Plenty of businesses and nonprofit organizations have signed up for Twitter and Facebook, but are they using these social media outlets to their fullest potential?

The idea is that users will be able to anonymously upload material, and Wikileaks will verify it. A tool for journalists and bloggers to release information without their identity being compromised.

Steps to stay safe and private on Facebook

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

Thanks Sam Oazy for sending these interesting income models for academic publishing.

Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.