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Bookshop Beacons Across The UK?
Forrester Research claim consumers are using tablets in their living rooms (67%), bedrooms (60%) and even their kitchens (42%), but smartphones are used more on the go, including in the car (68%) and...
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Jellybooks Introduce ePub Reader Analytics
The buzz is currently is about big data, or collecting very granular consumer and transactional information and then being able to analyse it. The results may help spot trends, aid development,...
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Google Without Glasses and Going to Bits
All technology has a life cycle which starts with creation, through; prototyping, adoption, adaption, development and finally obsolescence. Some make the full cycle others stumble at first base. Today...
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Apps versus the Mobile Web
Unlike that old question, ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’, we know the answer to which came first, the web site, or the app. But will this be the case in years to come and are we now...
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Should the Underground Offer Commuters an eBook Library?
Imagine getting free access to an electronic library when travelling on the tube. Well that is what travelers can now enjoy on Line 4 of the Beijing metro.The metro lines carriages feature barcodes...
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DRM Is Not A Binary Decision
Consumer rights with respect of ebooks continue to be up in the air.Only last week, Sony, the prime driver for Adobe’s ACS4 adoption back in 2006 said that they were coming back into the Digital Rights...
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Kindle Self-Publishing eTextbooks Offer
The internet age has started to enable classrooms without walls, or even borders and promote the leading educators to engage with all students. But is this reality today or merely technology waiting...
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'The Times They Are A Changin'
Nielsen's 2014 annual review of the music industry has negative signs in front of chain store sales (-20%), total new album sales (-14%), and sales of new songs online (-10.3%), with only positive...
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Wise Investment: Kieron Smith or Blinkbox ?
So would you invest in a service that still has to prove itself or someone who has done it more than once and brings ability to the table?The troubled UK supermarket Tesco was forced recently to...
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Maybe Harris Should Drink Some Costa Coffee?
What is more important and best for books, a group of intellectuals sitting round a table, or on a couch, talking about a book, or a good adaptation on film which clearly references the works, or a...
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Sly Stone To Finally Get Paid
The music industry history is littered with artists who claim they were duped into bad contracts and not paid a fair amount. There are many that claim that the internet is making things worse. There...
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Txtr RIP?
Provisional administrator Christian Köhler-Ma has been appointed to German ebook service provider Txtr.Txtr provided ebook solutions to retailers such as Foyles, device makers and mobile operators such...
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Alibaba Starts Drone Delivery Trails in China
Maybe the optimum size of a printed book in the near future will not be determined by the print economics, but instead will be governed by its weight and dimensions. Delivery of small parcels such as...
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Where Libraries Are Sited Is As Important As What They Do?
Public Libraries where often built as large standalone buildings in the central Victorian and Edwardian civic centres, many of which remain today. They then spawned local branches with the expansion of...
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So Who Is Watching and Listening To You?
We live in a world of surveillance, moving ever closer to Orwell’s 1984. We are surrounded by CCTV cameras on buildings, streets and inside shops, some would suggest that our internet messages and...
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Are You iWatching?
I have just bought a 1936 Imperial Companion 1 portable typewriter and it now sits proudly on my desk alongside today’s technology. Is it practical? Well not with my poor spelling and tendency to...
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We talk of wearable technology and see a deluge of wantabees who all want to be seen in their ‘Emporer’s New Clothes.’ But it often is frustrating that we continue to leave many behind in our search...
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EU Approach to eBooks Is Nonsense
This week four cultural ministers from four powerhouses; Italy, Poland, France and Germany jointly requested that the EU Commission should think again about the rate of tax for ebooks. This comes only...
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Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity. Part 1
Part 1: How did we arrive to where we are today? It now seems a lifetime away when we started our technology journey which we w all take for granted today. Back in ’68 there were only 32 computers in...
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Communications not Product and Services is the 21st Century Opportunity: Part 2
Part 2: The Organisational Impact of Communications in Today’s World? A company may have the best product or service and the smartest technology, but these alone no longer guarantee success. They may...
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A 60 Second Battery Fix?
One of today’s biggest mobile problems is that of battery life. When the battery is fully charge the world is our at out fingertips, but when it is running low or flat then we are effectively cut off...
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Are Enhanced eBooks a Digital Grail?
What is the state of the ebook market and are there significant differences between the various different market segments and geographical regions? The question is not new and there are a significant...
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Spotify No Longer Just Music
When we look at the future of on demand and streamed media services the clue is in the word media. We are no longer shackled to thinking of vertical movie, music, games but media hubs that satisfy all...
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'Plastic Will Do Nicely,Sir'
The UK Payments Council today stated that the use of cash by consumers, businesses and financial organisations fell to 48% of payments last year. This means that cashless payments have overtaken cash...
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