On UK newspapers, the apocalypse has been averted (Guardian)It's exactly four years since – at a heavyweight conference in eastern Europe – I heard an expert on the communications apocalypse predict that, only five years hence, printed newspapers would be dead and digitally buried. The trends, he said, were clear. Umm… not exactly. There's an awful lot of perishing left to cram into the next 12...
Monday, December 23, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Boundless an innovative textbook start-up announced yesterday that they have settled a law suit brought against them by several large pubishing companies which accused the company of copyright violations. (Chronicle)The publishers’ suit alleged that Boundless had boasted that “they copy the precise selection, structure, organization, and depth of coverage of plaintiffs’ textbooks and then...
Saturday, December 14, 2013
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Interview in Research Information Magazine recently:When the first big scholarly e-book programmes launched six or seven years ago there was plenty of excitement about putting e-books and e-journals on the same platform so that they could be searched together and this trend has continued.As Michael Cairns, chief operating officer online at Publishing Technology, observed: ‘Over the course...
Monday, December 9, 2013
Can Scholarly Publishing Evolve Beyond the PDF? From John Wiley. French authors can't get a break (BBC):"I often joke that the only way to get published in Britain if you're French is to pretend you're Spanish. If you've been a best-seller in France, it's a sure-fire recipe for not getting a deal in the UK. "As for US publishers, they're so convinced that with 350 million potential readers...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Information Today magazine asked me and some other pundits to think about what we may see in 2014:There were plenty of newsworthy events in 2013, from acquisitions (Elsevier acquired Knovel, Swets acquired JSTOR ebooks), to ebooks (Ingram added an ebook lending model to MyiLibrary, Apple was tried for ebook price fixing), to MOOCs (institutions such as edX and Coursera offered topics including...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Lots and hype and hyperbole about Amazon.com this week. At least Scott Pelley at 60mins went right to the top and managed to keep his hands clean. As you probably know by now, Amazon is going to deliver your toys to you with a toy helicopter.span class="yt-ui-ellipsis-wrapper" data-original-html="Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers worldwide. What's...
Monday, November 25, 2013
John Fallon, CEO of Pearson plc was interviewed in London's Evening Standard last week.The new buzzword is efficacy: not just selling study programmes to schools or parents who want their children to get ahead but setting targets and measuring how they improve performance and help learners advance their careers, from Pearson’s South African university students to the millions being taught English...
Friday, November 22, 2013
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Friday, November 15, 2013
About eight years ago I was one of the group at the Association of American Publishers that voted to file suit against Google for the unauthorized copying of upwards of 10million books (and other bound stuff) from the collection of five large academic libraries. It wasn't long after the vote that I wished I had missed the meeting.If nothing else, the passage of time since that suit was filed...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Now that's what I call pure proft. There's still life in compliations: in a word curation. (NewStatesman)The brand has also taken the digital landscape head on and embraced the new realms of digital music platforms with a Now Spotify Channel, Now You Tube Channel and a Now iPhone app. In a new era where people have switched from CD to MP3 and digital downloads,...
Saturday, November 9, 2013
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Friday, November 8, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Slide 1: Good Morning and welcome to this session on Responsive Web Design at Contec Frankfurt. I am Michael Cairns from Publishing Technology and I am joined by Michael Kowalski from web consulting firm Contentment. We are going to speak to you today about Responsive Web design (RWD) – what it is, how it works...
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