The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 7th, 2010
Above is the headline in a tiny article in today’s New York Times. I reference it because it states what I believe to be true: “Stuck between the still-evolving smartphone and the emerging tablet computer, the netbook computer would seem to be doomed.” It’s not so much that I necesarily feel that the NetBook is doomed,…
January 5th, 2010
OK, I’m obsessed. I just checked and I’ve written over 30 blog entries in the last few years about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, for what I consider empty, meaningless hype around the Kindle and eBooks generally. Where is Peter Finch’s Howard Beale when we need him: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take…
January 5th, 2010
From Dublin, Ireland comes Eoin Purcell’s Blog, one of the best blogs on where publishing is heading, albeit with a primary focus on book publishing. Today’s delightful entry, “My 2009 Publishing Heroes” is to me a fine example of the web at its best. Through this blog entry I was introduced to five new thinkers…
January 4th, 2010
You may well have heard this about 100 times already (there are 524 stories listed on Google just dated January 4), but today’s Wall Street Journal confirmed that Apple plans to announce its long-rumored tablet iPhone-variant towards the end of this month, and will likely begin shipping in March. Although the pricing is not known,…
January 1st, 2010
Here at Osborne Manor in West Vancouver on the first day of a new year I stepped outside briefly to listen to the gentle sound of the waves lapping upon the shores of Burrard Inlet. Somehow this reminded me of Mike Shatzkin’s 13 predictions about what 2010 holds for eBooks. I read them on my…