It seems like the proliferation of tablets, ereaders and smartphones at CES this year has been a great incentive for everyone writing blogs. It is amazing to read all of the comments and predictions made about the publishing industry and reading with each new launch or promise of a device that will be the killer app for literature. Sound familiar to walkman land pre-ipod?
Nook + Kindle = Alex
CES 2010 is on and the gadgets will be flowing all week. I’m sure this won’t be the only eReader discussed this week, but Engadget has a gallery and short walkthrough of the Nook/B&N suing Alex by Spring Designs.
Tim Middleton 2009 in a Fragmented Review: E-books Are *Vampires, P-Books Are *Zombies:
The interesting thing and perhaps the most encouraging and inevitable thing about this past year in publishing is the emergence of new business models—real honest to goodness business models—that are going to challenge the old book world. Every time you turn around you hear about the e-book, e-readers, and giving stuff away for free. But what can you do with that knowledge?
Liza Daly 2009 In Review: Moving From If to How
Liza Daly is the owner of Threepress Consulting, a technology company servicing the publishing and educational industries and was last seen peering warmly at you from our BNC Tech Forum banner on the right.
Mark Leslie Lefebvre 2009 in Review: Plus ça Change, Plus c'est la Même Chose
Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a blogger, a writer and an innovative bookseller at McMaster University. There’s a rumour going around that he also plays a mean jazz flute.
Sean Cranbury 2009 in Review: Recoil!
Our guest blogger for this post is Sean Cranbury, the intrepid book lover behind Advent Book Blog and Books on the Radio. When Sean’s not fighting lions, tigers and bears in the wilds of Vancouver, he’s fearlessly finding new ways to promote great books.
Mark Bertils 2009 in Review: Ebooks—20 Years To Become an Overnight Success
The following post is written by our guest blogger, Mark Bertils, who, when he’s not leaping over buildings in a single bound, blogs over at http://indexmb.com/.
BIC Releases Recommendations for E-Book IDs
Book Industry Communication (the UK equivalent of BNC or the BISG) has released their recommendations on dealing with ISBN assignment for e-books.
Nic Boshart 2009 in Review: Digital Publishing's GED
The Mobile Internet and Thou
Morgan Stanley has made available a massive research project that looks at the rise of the mobile internet, contextualizing the research with the thesis that:
I found it instructive to read through and contemplate these ideas from an ebook perspective especially with the recent kobo news. Below are the 8 themes that emerge from the research.
