The following article was published in the latest Australian Booksellers Association magazine. I wrote it a couple of months ago and some of the UK moves have been affected by… Read more >
July 6, 2010 analysis, bookselling, business, copyright, ebook lending, libraries 5 Read more >
While book lovers console each other with anecdotes about how hard it is to beat the experience of a real book, it seems that they’re already telling researchers a different… Read more >
Amazon has just split its ebook top 100 list into a Free and a Paid list, giving much more useful insight into what people are buying and reading digitally. To… Read more >
Top six US publisher Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS, broke out its digital numbers from its first quarter results to show an impressive year-on-year growth of 233% to… Read more >
Just days after the launch of Apple’s iPad, it might be time for starry-eyed publishers to take a reality check from their iPad infatuations. Apple has just made the content… Read more >
April 13, 2010 Adobe, analysis, android, Apple, iPad, iphone, news 3 Read more >
Here’s the story I wrote for this week’s National Business Review, a round up of the interesting times we’re living in and my pick of the winners and losers —… Read more >
February 11, 2010 Amazon, analysis, Apple, Google, Kindle 2 Read more >
Amazon’s Kindle is going global. From October 19, customers in 100 countries will be able to buy a Kindle, buy ebooks from the Kindle’s 200,000+ English language titles, and do… Read more >
October 8, 2009 analysis, bookselling, copyright, ebook readers, iphone, news 6 Read more >
The US Register of Copyright has come out swinging against the proposed Google Book settlement, describing it as “fundamentally at odds with the law.” “By permitting Google to engage in… Read more >
I was just contacted by someone asking for advice on what she should do regarding the Google Books settlement. I’m no expert but for what it’s worth, here’s what I’ve… Read more >
Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother… Read more >
July 28, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook formats, news 1 Read more >