Passion. Lust. New (market) positions. Unsurprisingly, Harlequin continues to charge ahead in the eBook frontier. Their latest venture, Carina Press, is a digital book only imprint headed by online press veteran Angela James, most recently of Samhain Publishing.
Kindle Arriveth & Shortcovers Expandeth
As I’m sure all devotees of the eReader/digital book markets already know, Canadians are now able to purchase their very own Kindle (sans wireless—sort of) without having to resort to covert cross-border shopping excursions.
I’m going to leave other bloggers with the critique of the Kindle device itself (Mark Bertils does a great job at index//mb) and focus instead on another key component of eBook adoption: pricing.
Data Exchange Tip #5: Some Basics—Tools Before Validation
An XML file is simply text—nothing very special—except that in order for XML software to read and interpret it, everything needs to be just so. XML is, loosely, a computer formatting language, and as such is a low type of computer code—if not quite as finicky as a proper programming language it has much stricter rules than HTML.
Data Exchange Tip #4: Escaping Entities—Påvøl Breaches Checkpoint Charlie
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New Publishing Business Model #10: The Complete Guide to Google Wave
Discuss: Google Wave is the Tickle-Me-Elmo of Fall 2009 for web denizens. Everyone wants to play with it but it’s not clear whether it will end up changing everything or just get crammed in the back of closets with an Alf doll and a some old Barbies who got innovative hair cuts thanks to scissor-happy pre-teens.
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Data Exchange Tip #3: File Cleaning—Not Just for Your Nails
Employee of the Month
Adam Hodgkin of Exact Editions has an insightful blog post that ties in the mythic Apple tablet with App store as bookstore business model. In light of that I thought if that happens then inevitably they will need a robot to help shelve the books—preferably one that can jump stacks and stacks of unpacked inventory and returns! Behold Kyoto-based Robo Garage has unveiled Ropid [JP] today, a mini robot that runs on two legs and can jump as high as 8cm:
Data Exchange Tip #2: So What('s) Encoding Anyway?
In the first tip, I tried to establish why you, the ONIX file sender, have to test your file, and that’s simply to ensure that the file’s content — all the characters—would be recognized by the aggregator’s software. The “encoding” declaration in the first line of the file tells the recipient what to expect—and your job is to ensure that the file matches that.
