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

Amazon Reverses Stance on Text-to-Speech Feature

"Following protests from the Authors Guild, Amazon has decided to allow rightsholders to decided for themselves whether or not to enable the text-to-speech function on the new Kindle 2. The Authors Guild said the feature was an unauthorized use of an audio right."

Read the whole thing here from Publisher's Weekly Latest News

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • The Web]

Posted on 02 Mar 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

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 10pm

An optimistic observation for publishers around ebooks

Mike Shatzkin from Publishing Frontier writes:

"OK, here’s an optimistic observation for publishers."

"Let’s say more and more real book readers find, ‘you know, reading on this iPhone, Android, smartphone I have is pretty good…’ And the marketplace for reading on the phones grows quickly. Plenty of skeptics for that idea, sure. But not impossible. (Keep this in mind: three doublings make ebooks 8% of the market. Will that happen in 3 years? It certainly couldn’t take as long as five…)" ....

Read the whole thing here from Publishing Frontier

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

ALPSP announces trial Open Access option

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), have announced that their journal Learned Publishing will have a trial Open Access option.

With the 'ALPSP Author Choice', authors can choose to make the online version of their article freely available to all immediately on publication. You can read the press release on the ALPSP web site.

Filed Under: [Publishing • Journals • Open Source]

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Posted on 31 Jul 2007 around 7am

University Publishing in a Digital Age

Ithaka has released University Publishing in a Digital Age by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (preface by Kevin Guthrie).

Sourced at DigitalKoans

Filed Under: [Publishing • Education • Text Books]

Posted on 28 Jul 2007 around 8pm

Penguin plans ‘wiki-novel’

The publisher has announced an experimental collaborative online novel which everyone can write and edit.

Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books

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Posted on 02 Feb 2007 around 10pm

Literature without books: Vic Keegan considers the prospects for online publishing

As Google sets to work making vast numbers of books available to download in their entirety, Vic Keegan considers the prospects for online publishing.

Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books

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Posted on 24 Jan 2007 around 8pm

Access to Over 13 Million Digital Documents

ScientificCommons.org is an initiative of the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen. It indexes both metadata and full-text from global digital repositories. It uses OAI-PMH to identify relevant documents. The full-text documents are in PDF, PowerPoint, RTF, Microsoft Word, and Postscript formats. After being retrieved from their original repository, the documents are cached locally at ScientificCommons.org. It has indexed about 13 million documents from over 800 repositories.

Sourced at DigitalKoans

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Posted on 21 Jan 2007 around 11am

Landmark Digital Humanities Book Is Now Freely Available

A Companion to Digital Humanities is now freely available in digital form.

This important 2004 book was edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. It includes chapters by such notable experts as Howard Besser, Greg Crane, Susan Hockey, Willard McCarty, Allen H. Renear, Abby Smith, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, John Unsworth, and Perry Willett (to name just a few).

Sourced at DigitalKoans

Filed Under: [Publishing • Research • The Web]

Posted on 14 Jan 2007 around 9pm

How electronic publishing changes the production and distribution of scholarly journals?

Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa (2005) How electronic publishing changes the production and distribution of scholarly journals? . SRELS Journal of Information Management 42(4):pp. 459-464.

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Posted on 06 Jan 2007 around 10pm

India’s growing clout in English language publishing

Just about 7% of India's population can read English according to the 1991 Census (2001 census language data is yet to be released). But even that 7% works out to a substantial 65 million potential English readers. For perspective, compare that to the number of English speakers in USA (about 215 million), number of English speakers in Canada (about 20 million) the entire populations of Britain (about 60 million) and Australia (about 20 million).

India's clout is only likely to grow further in the coming decades in the global market for English language publishing.

Sourced at The Publishing Horizon

Filed Under: [Publishing • Book selling • Books]

Posted on 02 Jan 2007 around 11pm