A new service was launched a couple weeks back called Smashwords. It is a self-publishing site but with a focus on the digital book. In an interview at teleread the creator of the site said he developed the site thanks to his own experience with publishing…
Microsoft Scuttling Live Search Books/Academic
Microsoft announced today that they are shutting down the ‘Live Search Books’ and Live Search Academic’ programs as well as their digitization project. Details can be found on the Live Search Blog.
Long-Term Book Ownership vs. DRM
Q1 2008 E-Book Sales 35% Increase over Q1 2007
Fun with Twitter
Search and Discoverability Standard
Tony Stark, Core Competencies, and Successful Innovation
If you haven’t yet participated in the spectacle of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark, be aware that there are spoilers ahead and also: go. It’s good. If you’re still with me, let’s consider the journey that Stark makes to move away from Stark Industry’s core competency (weapons creation, manufacturing and distribution and general baddie-dodo stuff) to a new business ‘model’ after he is shown where the money that funds the business is really coming from.
EPUB Demystified (Sort Of)
Tiny URL: Good Thing, Small Package
Hyperlinking is the shorthand of Internet culture. A good link can enhance or create personal and professional connections, clarifies communication and can be rich currency in the information economy.
But not all links are created equally and the longer the character extension, the more likely a link is to break or create a nightmare for design and formatting. Enter Tiny URL—the free service that allows you to quickly and easily create short links that you get you where you need to go with no muss and no fuss.
Innovate! And Don't Forget the Reader...
Last week the BISG hosted their annual Making Information Pay conference in New York. The theme of this year’s conference was From Experimentation to Innovation in the Digital Age with the keynote delivered by home grown Canadian, Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting.
