February 17th, 2015
Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing
My new report, Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing, is available now from all of the online ebookstores.
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May 12th, 2013
Microsoft Won’t Save Barnes & Noble
After a vague but vaguely credible report earlier this week from TechCrunch there’s no end to the discussion about whether Microsoft really intends to purchase the portion of Nook Media still held by Barnes & Noble and what that could mean to both companies.
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).
July 8th, 2011
Take Two Tablets Before Bed…and Fifty PCs
I suggest to publishers and the software vendors serving them that they take 25 PCs for every tablet they want to ingest because that will be the ratio of PCs in use around the world for each tablet (by December/2012). All Things Digital today recharged the iPad hype engine with its article “Tablet of Choice…
February 7th, 2011
Customer Service and the Future of Publishing
Communication is as challenging as it ever was. The exchange was prompted by a post on Dan Gillmor’s excellent journalism blog on Salon.com. When I saw Dan on the Mac version I did the requisite Google search for an answer and got the usual spam-filled and out-of-date search results. Like David Pogue at the New…