Frontline on PBS has spent an hour looking at how the Murdoch/News International phone hacking scandal has evolved from the start. As you watch this just remember that The Guardian did not get newspaper of the year in the UK this year. (Frontline); Watch Murdoch's Scandal on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.People are still digesting the news about Blackboard's acquisition of...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
The AAP and GoodReads are co-sponsoring a blogging competition in advance of the Book Expo conference. If you’re a blogger who loves books, that passion might get you far: all the way to New York and the publishing industry’s premier annual event, with free travel and an all-access pass.Nominations are now open for the new Independent Book Blogger Awards, a free online contest recognizing bloggers...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
There's an important meeting coming up to review comments on the draft recommendations for eBook identifiers. Here are the details:Members of BISG’s Identification Committee are invited to a special Committee meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT, at the offices of Hachette...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Outsell spoke to us about the changes going on in education specifically in the development of custom textbooks and interviewed me for the report.Here is the summary:The digital textbook buzz has increased over the past two years, leaving no doubt that the usage of digital textbook content in the education market will increase substantially – predictably at the expense of their print equivalents....
Very interesting development in the world of learning management systems with the announcement that Blackboard has acquired open source solution providers MoodleRooms and NetSpot. From the press release:WASHINGTON, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Blackboard Inc. announced a major investment in open source today with news that it has acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot, two leading providers...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Pew Research Center published their annual State of Media report this week and the research suggests some interesting trends are developing in the manner in which readers are accessing news. Specifically, the research suggests that the rapid spread of mobile devices is also escalating our level of news consumption with traditionally news brands standing to benefit. Here is their press...
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
This will be more appealing than Barbara Streisand but that's just me.Neil Young will be speaking at Book Expo to discuss his memoir. Should be fun. Here is the press release:Officials at BookExpo America (BEA) have today announced that Neil Young will be appearing at the annual book industry trade show where he will discuss his upcoming memoir, Waging Heavy Peace. The book...
Monday, March 19, 2012
The BBC on Education: Has The Internet Sparked a Revolution in Education (Video):The internet is helping to reshape the very foundation education by both allowing individuals to learn from the comfort of their own homes as well as training them to be the entrepreneurial moguls. The BBC's Matt Danzico investigates what place traditional academic institutions have in a world consumed...
Friday, March 16, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
John Wiley released their annual results this week. From their press release:Management Commentary"Growth in STMS and Global Education was partially offset by weakness in our Professional/Trade business. Unfavorable comparables to the prior year as a result of the bankruptcy of Borders in December 2010 weighed heavily on our Professional/Trade results this quarter," said Stephen M....
Friday, March 9, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
It would be hard to imagine that a less equal business relationship exists than that between publishers and libraries. Without even the semblance of discussion, negotiation or consultation Random House did what HarperCollins did last year and imposed a solution to mitigate a problem no one can even prove exists. The problem: That loaning eBooks from a library is so easy that retail sales...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
I was never that aware of The Monkees but the passing of Davy Jones generated a lot of reminiscing. Mrs. PND recalls the time her Dad brought home the record - unprompted - becoming 'cool' in the process and in the last few days she has DVR'd what must be 24hrs worth of the show. Here some thoughts from Neil McCormick at The Telegraph:One of the most remarkable things about the Monkees...
Friday, March 2, 2012
Another weekly image from my archive. Click on it to make it larger.To that long ago the Chinese 'junks' seen floating about the South China Sea would have been legitimate trading and merchant vessels. Less so now, as most of the 'junks' seen in the waters around Hong Kong would cater to the sunset...
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