June 18th, 2012
Microsoft Surface Builds Tablet Momentum
I watched the Microsoft Surface tablet announcement this evening and I knew pretty quickly that I was looking at a winner (see mea culpa below).
The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
Microsoft Surface Builds Tablet Momentum
June 15th, 2012
Diplomacy in Action: State Department Sides with Amazon
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried:
June 13th, 2012
The Ongoing Search for Findability
Trying to make a book truly discoverable can lead authors and publishers toward a world of pain. It’s not so much how do you find a needle in a haystack. It’s why would you even bother. “Findability” is the kinder, gentler problem. How do you find a needle in a haystack? As it happens, the haystack has…
June 8th, 2012
BEA in NYC: Book Conference Redux
The early June weather in New York has been uncharacteristically temperate, setting the tone for an uneventful annual BEA Book Week, concluding this evening with a reading at the Barnes & Noble on East 86th Street.
June 2nd, 2012
Findability Found
In my first two posts in this series I looked at definitions for metadata and then at the differences between findability, discoverability and marketing. I’m going to focus here just on findability, the easy part of metadata.