The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
February 18th, 2009
“…the students I talk to (and I ask regularly) would go to lengths to avoid reading a book on the Internet, can’t fathom the price of Kindle, which looks like an old person’s appliance anyway, and think reading books on a cell phone is a demented idea.” — From a comment by Barbara Fister who…
February 18th, 2009
Jason Epstein is a publishing legend. If you don’t know of him, start with the all-too-brief Wikipedia entry, and move on from there. All are well-advised to learn more about this remarkable man. He now has a vested economic interest in the future of publishing because of his work with the Espresso book print-on-demand device….
February 17th, 2009
Two very interesting blogs/articles on ZDNet cover a fascinating story from slightly different angles. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out something that I never imagined happening in my lifetime: The price of PCs, in particular of netbooks, is dropping so fast that soon the operating system (at least the Windows operating system), threatens to become more expensive…
February 17th, 2009
The Kindle 2 was indeed unveiled on February 9th as “rumored.” (What do you call a supposed rumor that everyone already knows? A “deliberate leak” perhaps.) Ship date is February 24th, just in time for those who forgot to buy chocolates and roses on Valentine’s Day. Kindle lovers everywhere are thrilled; the skeptics remains skeptical….
February 8th, 2009
I had missed this story until The Economist brought it to my attention. comScore, which maintains a “massive proprietary database that provide(s) a continuous, real-time measurement of the myriad ways in which the Internet is used and the wide variety of activities that are occurring online,” reported on January 23rd that China had surpassed the…