Take a look at the chart behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on stage at the launch of the big-screen Amazon Kindle DX last week. Bezos revealed that, where Kindle editions are available alongside paper editions of books, the  Kindle sales are running at 35% of book sales. What’s more, as the chart shows, there’s been [...]

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Through my work with the Digital Publishing Forum, I’ve been putting together a programme for that organisation’s major conference event this year. It’s called the Future of the Book and the conference programme has just gone live. Take a look. But it’s looking increasingly like the future of the book might also be the future [...]

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If this Ars Technica story is correct, reporting on a National Business Review claim, New Zealand is about to see a wholesale review of its copyright legislation. The NBR story, which appeared last Friday, claimed that the National government has put a freeze on any more patch-ups to the existing law and is now planning [...]

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It looks like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wasn’t kidding earlier this year when he said he thought there were “genuine opportunities” for Amazon to save journalism. As newspapers and magazines are brought to their knees by plummeting ad revenues and their relative failure on the web, Amazon is rumoured to be launching a larger version [...]

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I just came across a couple of videos showing the Espresso Book Machine which is getting quite a bit of interest as a print-on-demand option suitable for use in a retail environment. I’ve seen this machine in action and it’s pretty impressive, producing a very good quality book while you wait with little need for [...]

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