by Eoin Purcell For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple all fall into that category (Amazon aside from being an impressive online retailer is also an amazing [...]
Entries Tagged as 'future'
Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
Tags:craven·forge·future·publishers·stop
The future of ebooks (from 2000)
December 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
Over the weekend, the BiblioFuture blog posted a set of ebook predictions that Microsoft made back in 2000. Where they dug it up, I have no clue. But I’m glad they did. It’s fascinating what some anonymous MS employee that would happen with ebooks over the past 10 years. I’m going to go through the [...]
Podcast: The Future of the Internet (from 1993)
November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast
The NPR show Science Friday pulled one an old show from their archive this week. It dates from 1993, and the topic is the Internet. Normally a show this old wouldn’t be all that interesting, but this is NPR’s first podcast. Also, one of the participants was using VOIP (more likely a pre-VOIP protocol). How [...]
The Future of Book Browsing
October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
You might recall my post from last week about QR codes. I wrote that don’t think they should be used to enhance book content. I also wrote that I thought a better solution would come along. And now it has. I just caught this demo video for Google Googles. I’ve read a couple of the [...]
The Future has arrived (humor)
October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
Of course, I don’t know what the problem is. I play books on my giant TV screens. Why, just yesterday I read Romeo & Juliet. (Leonardo di Caprio was great.) Click on the image to see the rest. via Comics.com
The Future of the Book (video)
September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, video
I found an interesting video by the design firm IDEO. It shows their 3 concepts for the future of digital books. I just watched the video, and a couple details struck me as rather odd. I can’t recall the last time I saw a video that showed active collaboration on a concept e-reader. Do all [...]
The Future of Ebook Apps (Today)
September 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
by Joe Wikert I’m in the process of reading Nick Bilton’s excellent book, I Live in the Future and Here’s How it Works. I highly recommend it, btw; look for a detailed review here in the not too distant future.
The inevitable future of iPhone apps
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Apple
I found this over on PJLyon’s tumblr blog. Thanks, Mike. Yes, I do think that Apple will eventually get to this point. They already have “I am over 18″ checkboxes.
Tags:apps·future·inevitable·iphone
Rupert Murdoch: Tablets are the Future
August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The Australian have an article on a talk given by Rupert Murdoch at a “new media” breakfast event. He spoke at length about tablets, and he said they were: “a perfect platform for our content. We can deliver our content to our readers when, where and how they want it. It’s cheap, convenient and constantly [...]
The Future of Advertising
June 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · video
I’ll be honest with you. I just wanted an excuse to post the new Kindle ad. But it really is an example of the future of advertising. The really smart people are making ads that have some quality that makes you want to share the ad. I don’t know what it is (yet), but this [...]
Tags:advertising·future
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