Archive for the ‘Publishing’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
John C. Abell, in his recent Wired article Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is the Missing Clue to the Apple Tablet, suggests that in the same way that he invigorated animated film with Pixar, the music industry with iTunes, and the mobile phone market with the iPhone, Jobs' next mission is to ...
Posted in Magazines, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Spurred on by positive reaction to my recent article on metadata, I did more digging in Twitter, and came across this interesting tweet from Christian Science Monitor librarian Leigh Montgomery (@CSMLibrary):
#Journalism future? 'It's in the data.' #Metadata, that is - makes the #news last, rather than a perishable commodity http://tr.im/lmetadata
9:52 ...
Posted in Libraries, Metadata, Newspapers, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
This is excerpts from part 2 of Michael Nielsen's seminal and long article, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?. Part 1 of Nielsen's article is a general consideration of how industries fail, with particular discussion of the newspaper industry and blogs. Part 2 is the heart of Nielsen's case ...
Posted in Google, Journals, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Two recent articles, one by a librarian and one by a publisher, talk of the growing realization on the part of both parties that they increasingly have common interests, as both learn how to deal with the the implications of electronic publishing -- Librarian Barbara Fister's Library Journal cover story ...
Posted in Libraries, PicsYes, Publishing, TOC, Twitter, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Since the announcement by Apple last week of new iPhone OS software that will become available in June, publishers Adam Hodgkin and Mike Shatzkin have been having an interesting dialog about the future of the eBook market, and how iPhone 3.0 will affect the competition between Amazon, Apple, and Google. ...
Posted in Mobile, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The slides and data from Jon Orwant's presentation on Google Book Search at TOC, that were not available when I wrote previously, have now been put up on the O'Reilly site. [these have been removed, see comment below] This is made up of 59 PDF slides, covering a range of ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Long Tail, PicsYes, Publishing, TOC, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Jon Orwant, from Google Book Search, made a presentation at the O'Reilly Tools Of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York last week, which I did not attend. Apparently Orwant presented some numeric data about the use of Google Books, but the data has yet to be spread to ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, Publishing, TOC, Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
In a brief response letter, author and publisher Marc Aronson writes about the copyright status of pictures that are in publisher partner books in Google Books. Aronson suggests that the rights for pictures are separate from the rights for text. I've corresponded with Aronson to expand on this idea, and ...
Posted in Copyright, Google Book Search, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
