Mobiles, eBooks, Androids and Media

The Pulse Report from San Francisco-based analysts Flurry claims that in the last four months, book apps have exceeded the popularity of games apps on the iconic iPhone. One out of every five new apps launched in October was a book! Apple clearly have a potential media winner if they ever get a tablet to market and also they have the potential to do to books what they have done to games. Everyone said that the games needed dedicated devices and although these still dominate there is a clear segment that are happy with just one device.

Sourced at Booksellers Association

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • Technology]

Posted on 03 Nov 2009 around 4pm

Best of TOC (Tools of Change Conference)

An e-book of Best of TOC is available at no charge from O’Reilly Press. at this link. The assemblage of tech writing by TOC speakers and others was put together as a showpiece for the second-generation Espresso Book Machine shown at the conference, with p-books printed and bound in seven minutes (on the low-end device; shorter times for more expensive equipment are promised).

Read the whole thing here from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 10pm

Google Buys … A Paper Mill?

Consider it a sign of the times when internet company Google acquires the buildings and premises of a mill site from a paper, packaging and forest products company that caters to the print industry.

(Via TechCrunch.)

Filed Under: [Global • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

Open Publication Structure 2.0 Elevated to IDPF Member & Public Review

Nick Bogarty from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) writes that the Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0 has been elevated for IDPF Member and Public Review. The review period will begin today and extend for 30 days ending on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007. The IDPF strongly encourages feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether IDPF members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of IDPF work.

Sourced at Gilbane Group Publishing Practice Blog

Filed Under: [Open Source • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 10am

Digital Publishing is Publishing

From the Booksellers Association: We hear of the latest salvo in the battle of the omnivores versus publishers in today’s Telegraph. The report states that publishers are converting thousands of titles in order that they mitigate the threat of the likes of Google stealing them or capturing the ebook market when it finally takes off.

If we step back and remove the emotion of digitisation, we can clearly see it's not about ebooks. Neither is it about which ebook technology will prevail. It is also not about the consolidation of digital content onto the mobile phone and MP3. It's about the wake up call to publishers.

Digital publishing is publishing ...

Sourced at Booksellers Association

Filed Under: [Technology • The Web]

Posted on 30 Mar 2007 around 4pm

How The iPhone Can Save The Book Business

Here’s how things work: yesterday, Paramount Pictures announced they’re going to make downloads of feature films available via iTunes. In other news, Apple changed its name and announced the long-anticipated iPhone. Lightbulb, on. Bad timing, Paramount. Great news, book industry. Omigosh, you’re saying, cellphone? Books? Hello? Apples, oranges, dropped calls, excessive fees, itty bitty screens. Okay, [...]

Sourced at Booksquare

Filed Under: [Technology]

Posted on 14 Jan 2007 around 8pm

Big Books Hit Japan’s Tiny Phones

Steamy novels written for cell phones -- and on them -- are taking off in Japan. By Lisa Katayama.

Sourced at Wired News

Filed Under: [Book Publishing • Technology]

Posted on 03 Jan 2007 around 5pm

2.5m digital books on one £25,000 machine

Dec 31: A machine that electronically stores 2.5m books that can then be printed and bound in less than seven minutes is to be launched early next year.

Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books

Filed Under: [Books • Technology]

Posted on 01 Jan 2007 around 5pm

Singapore to establish “schools of future”

Singapore will establish a primary school of future in 2008 which will lead the way in harnessing infocomm technology for teaching and learning.

Sourced at People's Daily Online

Filed Under: [Education • Technology]

Posted on 29 Dec 2006 around 10pm

Taiwan quake shakes confidence in undersea links

SEOUL (Reuters) - The earthquakes that hit Taiwan on Tuesday rocked communications in Asia and underscored the vulnerabilities of a system where huge amounts of data speed through the region in cables laid deep beneath the sea.

Sourced at Reuters: Internet News

Filed Under: [Communication • China • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 28 Dec 2006 around 4pm

Swedish Startup Offering Image-Based Search

The service from Polar Rose can identify whether a photo contains images of people, find other photos of the same people, and help with identifying the subjects of photos.

Sourced at InformationWeek News

Filed Under: [Technology • The Web]

Posted on 21 Dec 2006 around 10pm

Color e-paper trials begin on Tokyo trains

Commuters in Tokyo are getting a chance to experience some cutting-edge display technology from Thursday -- although they might have to look hard to see it.

On three commuter trains some traditional paper advertisements have been replaced with color e-paper displays. The displays, while technologically advanced, proved difficult to read during a demonstration Thursday.

Sourced at InfoWorld: Top News

Filed Under: [Lifestyle • Print Technology • Technology]

Posted on 14 Dec 2006 around 10pm