Yesterday at the BookNet Canada Technology Forum, we provided the comic relief for the day by unveiling PubFight, the fantasy publishing/simulation/training arena for the Canadian book industry. For those that couldn’t be there for the raucous demonstration, here is the text that Tech Forum attendees received yesterday…
Learning to Love Stock Turns: Part One
Box Office Data Visualization at NYT
BNC on CBC
Check it out—BookNet Canada has made the news:
BookNet boosts profit margin for publishers, retailers
Next come the paparazzi, right?
The Fine Art of Selling
Much More Music...Lessons?
The technology blog ars technica has an excellent article about whether or not the music industry is dying.
Not Quite a Canadian Writers' Strike, But...
High Watermarks in the Future of Music
With Sony BMG making the announcement last week that it will join Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI in offering DRM-free music downloads, it seems that digital culture has just gotten a little free. But there’s more to the story, writes David Kravets.
Mike Shatzkin's Crystal Ball
Camels Are SO 2007
In the long tradition of copying and improving desirable naturally occurring traits from the animal kingdom (wings, small pouches for valuables…um…flippers), Voltaic Systems has created a power source that would make even the most well-endowed ungulate flush with envy: a solar-power generator in the form of a backpack.
