According to Mike Elgan at Computer World, six major factors are coming to converge this year to precipitate the long-awaited e-book revolution. They are (with my marketing segment notes below):
TOC2009: A Book Is A...
This year’s Tools of Change conference contained similar themes to last year, but the difference is the level of adoption, or perceived adoption, and ubqiuity of devices that can take the electronic content that publishers have and provide a transportable, light-weight, library of books to readers that they can carry in their pockets.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
#TOC: The Conference that Gives You Information Overload!
As I sit here trying to sift through my experience of the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference that I just attended for three days I realize how much information was shelled out. To think, I not only listened to three days worth of conversations about the digital media but followed every person who was using twitter at the conference getting all of their opinions and links out to reference sites, it is no wonder my head is buzzing.
Book Camp Toronto: The Unconference
The Next Generation of Kindle
Kindle Plays Nice, but Will Mobile Bite the Hand that Feeds It?
Google’s going mobile—but mostly with out-of-copyright titles that have landed in the public domain. With Amazon getting in on the act and making Kindle-formatted books mobile-friendly, are we seeing a migration away from investment in dedicated eReaders?
Fifteen Million Books in Your Pocket... And Only One Google
Plastic Logic: Greenwashed?
Kindle II to Launch in February?
Gadget rumours are flying like crazy with the New York Times Blog speculating that Amazon will be releasing an updated Kindle on February 9th.
