From the press release: NetRead Software and Services, LLC announced a metadata partnership today with Macmillan USA. Under terms of the agreement, NetRead will handle their title data conversion and distribution through its product, JacketCaster. JacketCaster is architected around the book industry XML-standard called ONIX, and this foundation will allow for quick and efficient delivery [...]
Entries from May 25th, 2010
Publish2 wants to tromple the AP
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Here’s another news story from TechCrunch Disrupt: Online news aggregation and curation startup Publish2 is today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference launching a new product dubbed Publish2 News Exchange, with the ambitious goal of disrupting the entire reason for being of The Associated Press. The AP being the cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio [...]
BEA 2010: Copyright in Motion
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
About the presenter This session is hosted by Christopher Keneally, the Director of Business Development at the Copyright Clearance Center. The CCC is a world expert in copyright licensing solutions. My audio of the session (WMA) (posted with permission of the presenter) The session opened with a video which you can find here. The CCC [...]
Times of London paywall will block search engines
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Paidcontent.uk is reporting: The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google. That was one nugget gleaned during a preview of the attractive forthcoming relaunches Monday night. Times Online will relaunch as separate entities “imminently” has relaunched as two separate editions and will go [...]
Entourage Edge to be sold in college bookstores
May 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
From the press release: enTourage Systems, Inch., creator of the world’s first dualbook™ – the enTourage eDGe™ – announced today that it has partnered with The Douglas Stewart Company, a leading distributor and marketer of computer products, consumer electronics and school supplies, to exclusively serve the education market and boost interactive learning for school systems’ [...]
Tags:bookstores·college·edge·entourage·sold
Newspapers’ web traffic is on the rise, profits not
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Media Week is reporting that the number of unique visitors to newspaper websites grew 10 percent from March to April, reaching 83.7 million. If you just look at the top 10 markets, unique visitors were up nearly 13 percent in April (over March), reaching 70.8 million. MW alos reported that the top 25 markets showed [...]
E-ink announce partnership with Chilin
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
From the press release: E Ink® Corporation, the leading developer and producer of electronic paper display technology, and Chilin Technology Corporation, a leading manufacturer of vertically integrated flat panel displays, announced a partnership today to bring low-power industrial and other specialized electrophoretic displays to the marketplace. The cooperation between the two companies enables solutions that [...]
Tags:announces·chilin·eink·partnership
Scribd dropping Flash in a Flash
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
TechChrunch is reporting that Scribd has ramped up their efforts to move content out of Flash and into HTML5: Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Scribd CEO and co-founder Jared Friedman, is announcing that the startup has moved much of its content, including tens of millions of books, magazines, newspapers, presentations, research and more, to the HTML5 [...]
Plagiarism, Attribution, and the Web
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
I was just sent a link to this article on the NPR ombudsman blog. It’s not related to ebooks except in some kind of meta way, but I thought it was worth a mention. The article discusses attribution, and it uses the example of one NPR show that made a mistake in how they credited [...]
Tags:attribution·plagiarism·web
Dell Streak to hit UK in June
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news
O2 just announced that they’re going to be he first to have Dell’s 5″ Android tablet. They didn’t mention the price, but here is what they said: Dell and O2 today announced that the Dell Streak will launch exclusively on O2 early next month, bringing the internet, entertainment, easy turn-by-turn navigation and thousands of Android [...]
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