With a Little Help: New York, Meet Silicon Valley - 3 views
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arnie Grossblatt on 28 Jun 10Cory Doctorow on what publishers can learn from Silicon Valley.
that's what you'll get.
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The Network Neutrality Debate: It All Depends on What You Fear - 0 views
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"How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts!" - Edward Whitacre, Jr., CEO of the telephone company SBC (commenting on Google in 2005)
Books of the world. Stand up and be counted! - 0 views
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Google counts the number of books in the world, and along the way has to decide what counts as a book.
YouTube - Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5 - 0 views
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I saw this last spring at a meeting I was at, so this might be old news to everyone here, but I thought it's such a great illustration of what magazines can do with the iPad. Since I don't have an iPad, I am not even sure if this is what an actual SI iPad issue looks like. Anyone know?
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views
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and that's what you deserve.
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you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
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Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
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Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
Watch a trailer for "It's a Book" - 0 views
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Apparently ebooks and other electronic devices so dominate the world of children that there's a need for a children's book designed to explain what a print book isn't.
Ebooks Don't Cannibalize Print, People Do - 2 views
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The most important lesson I can convey to book publishing professionals is that they must understand that those of us who have made the transition to ebooks, buy ebooks, not print books. Ebook reading device users don’t shop in bookstores and then decide what edition they want; ebook device readers buy what is available in ebookstores. Search an ebookstore for a title and if it doesn’t come up, it doesn’t exist – no matter how many versions are available in print
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Publishers need to recognize that readers are shifting to ereading, and for this group if it's not in e-book format it doesn't exist.
Publishers' crazy e-book prices - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com - 0 views
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drawbacks to e-books, at least the way Amazon and Apple sell them. They don't really sell e-books; they merely let me read them, and in the process remove my rights
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But there are major
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to do what I want with what I've purchased
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The Week That Was: Kindle, Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and Fictionwise | Booksquare - 0 views
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we frequently encounter the strawman-esque argument “why should the author get paid less just because it’s an ebook?” To which I’d reply, “Why should the consumer pay more for the privilege of giving up rights, quality, and flexibility?”
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I've highlighted what I think is one of the best arguments I've seen for e-book pricing.
Resisting the Kindle - The Atlantic(March 2, 2009) - 0 views
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Critic and essayist Sven Birkerts comments on what we lose in the page-to-screen transfer
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: In Praise of the Sales Force - 0 views
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Cory Doctorow weighs in on what publishing does for authors that the Internet cannot do.
2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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"What I believe—and this is what we're putting to the test—is that as you're putting something online free of charge, you may lose a few sales, but you'll gain other sales because more people will know about it," said Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic's publisher.
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She would like Bloomsbury Academic to demonstrate that publishers can add editorial value to scholarship without having to choose between locking it down or giving it all away.
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Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.
End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) - 0 views
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The editor of The Atlantic outlines what he thinks will happen to good journalism and good journalists in a post-print world.
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 - 0 views
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Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago.
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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones.
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ssional ones. Most are essentially online magazines:
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The Million Word March | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views
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The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.
Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: Why Amazon Should Try a - 0 views
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Remember that Radiohead experiment back in 2007, the one where they allowed free downloads of their latest album and asked listeners to pay what they felt was fair? Some say it was successful and others beg to disagree. Assuming Amazon...
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I think that the debates over owning vs. subscribing, pricing vs. donating, supporting vs. freeloading are some of the most interesting aspects of the move to digital distribution. Would this work for Amazon? I think it was generally considered a success for Radiohead. I know I "bought" a copy.
Google Magazine Project a No-Cost Digital Archive (So Far) - emedia and Technology @ Fo... - 0 views
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Google will include magazine content in its Book Search--but what will magazine publishers get out of it?
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