The Book Industry Study Group in the US has just released the first of three parts of a Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading study and while the initial results are intriguing, my sense is that the qualification they used for survey respondents is skewing results to make it look like more people are buying or are interested in buying e-books than might actually be true.
Bookselling Innovation That Will Save the Industry
EBooks, eReaders and eBooksellers are all the rage in publishing reporting. Amazon announces that Christmas Day 2009 was the first Christmas where eBooks outsold their print counterparts. Kobo announces a new global strategy.
Upcoming Conferences for All Who Love Books & Tech, Tech & Books
BNC CEO Noah Genner To Speak at First Ever Digital Book World
Google Has Yet to Convince Me to Give Up My iPhone
For the most hyped device release this side of the mythical Apple Tablet, the birth of the Nexus One has left me uninspired. I tried to get hyped: before 9:00 am this morning, I’d already heard/read about the potential game-changing mobile device from three separate media outlets. Of course, two of those stories were delivered via my iPhone…which seems to undercut the Nexus One’s very raison d’etre.
Morgan Cowie 2009 in Review: Cowboys, Ninjas, and Bears
Whirled 2009 in Review: Waving Goodbye Via Google Wave
BIC Releases Recommendations for E-Book IDs
Book Industry Communication (the UK equivalent of BNC or the BISG) has released their recommendations on dealing with ISBN assignment for e-books.
Looking Ahead to 2010
Living News From Google, Times, & WaPo: What the Web Was Made For
Such a cool idea at Google Labs. Living Stories is RSS on steroids. The tool gathers together all stories on a breaking news topic, throws in timelines, filters and tags so you can see what kind of content it is and displays it all on one clean-looking webpage.
