So I was at the Publishing Expo last week. It was an interesting conference and I learned a lot. There were a lot of great sessions, and bunches of clever presenters. But this post isn’t about what went right; it’s about people’s mistakes, and I found 7 of them.
Entries from March 19th, 2010
How Not to Release a Digital Magazine
March 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows, digitization projects, opinion, software reviews
On Marvell’s new $99 Moby tablet
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news, opinion
Marvell posted a press release yesterday in which they announced their new prototype. It’s a tablet with full video & Flash abilities and a quoted price of $99. I posted a link to the press release so you could see what Marvell actually said. Take a note of what isn’t there. There are no hardware [...]
Korea Herald Announces Ebook Edition
March 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
My favorite Korean newspaper has just announced that it will be releasing an ebook version of the daily paper. It’s being offered through Textore, and is only be available in South Korea at this time. The monthly subscription is 7,000, far cheaper than the print version, which is 20,000. Right now Textore is only available [...]
PVI Demo Color E-ink Screens at the World Ebook Fair
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The IDG News Service sent someone to the World Ebook Fair in Shenzhen (it’s being held right now), and they spent a few minutes at the PVI booth. PVI had 6″ and 9.7″ color E-ink screens on display. Unfortunately, the screen isn’t nearly fast enough to be able to play movies at 30fps. PVI also [...]
The ebook transition: Collaborations and innovations behind open-access monographs
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
I found videos of 3 presentations made at the ALA conference back in January. You can find them here. Three ambitious initiatives to deliver free online access to scholarly monographs were featured at the next installment of the SPARC-ACRL forum, “The ebook transition: Collaborations and innovations behind open-access monographs.” The market-based business model for scholarly [...]
Tags:collaborations·ebook·innovations·monographs·openaccess·transition
Teclast has an Alex Clone!
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news, teclast
There’s a World Ebook Fair going on right now in Shenzhen China. (Yes, it’s killing me that I couldn’t go.) One of my sources has an exclusive shot of the Teclast K9 (at left). It has a 6″ E-ink screen on top, and a 3.6″ 480×272 LCD below. It’s locked in a display case, so [...]
Random House to Distribute for Smithsonian Books
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the press release: Smithsonian Books has reached an agreement with Random House Publisher Services for worldwide sales and distribution of its title catalog beginning March 27. …Smithsonian Books publishes a select list of illustrated, photography, reference and narrative nonfiction books. The publishing program includes categories where the Smithsonian’s authority is unparalleled: history, art, culture, anthropology, [...]
KT plans to Release E-reader
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news, hardware news
KT (Wikipedia), one of Korea’s largest telecoms, has announced plans to enter the ebook market. From the Korea Times: KT Corp. plans to launch an e-book business in April, company employees said Thursday. They expect the new business to give additional momentum to its wireless data Internet services at a time when the local e-book [...]
Galaxy Press Releases New Pulp Fiction Audiobooks
March 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release: As part of the re-launch of the Stories from the Golden Age site (www.goldenagestories.com), book publishing company Galaxy Press has created its own radio station that will feature unabridged, multi-cast audiobooks of pulp fiction short stories and books written by author L. Ron Hubbard in the 1930s and 1940s, and offering [...]
“Net piracy puts 1.2m EU jobs in peril, study shows” & Other Nonsense
March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
The Guardian is reporting: A quarter of a million British jobs in the music, film, TV, software and other creative industries could be lost over the next five years if online piracy continues at its current rate, according to a study backed by European unions and the TUC. Across the EU, as many as 1.2 [...]
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