Many years ago (really a long time ago) at the behest of Michael Lesk I sat for a few sessions on an advisory panel for the Commission on Preservation and Access. I see this is now folded into the CLIR. The CLIR is a very worthy body which supports important library projects (such as the Digital Library Federation which is now directed by Peter Brantley). Although I found the committee discussions fascinating, there were only five or six members … Keep Reading
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Peter Brantley linked me to Joe Wikert’s blog with the story that there is a new magazine, Opinionated, launched through Amazon, specifically for the Kindle — Amazon’s new eBook reading device which is in short supply.
The new magazine is culled (kindled?) from the syndicated columnists of the Chicago Tribune group. The Kindle will not support colour reproduction, so there is no need to worry about paying photographers or designers for wonderful layouts. It would be interesting to … Keep Reading
Publishers and broadcasters in their dealings usually define market rights in terms of ‘territories’. It will matter to a publisher whether or not their ‘co-publication’ rights include an exclusive right to sell copies of the English-language edition of a book in Australia, New Zealand and/or the whole of the European Union. Lots of stuff on the BBC websites is only available to users who have cookies or IP addresses which suggest that they are based in the UK.
Globalisation and … Keep Reading
Apple through its iTunes and Nokia through its “Comes with music deal” are preparing to offer unlimited access to the major music companies catalogues through monthly subscription plans. See today’s report in the Financial Times. Such services would be pitched at the $7-8 per month level, with Apple apparently needing a large slice of the revenue (this we understand is Apple’s style).
I wonder if this will work for music? I wonder if it would work for those of us … Keep Reading
A friend asked me the other day whether we were concerned that Google may simply come to dominate the digital book publishing space. Well in one way there clearly is a concern. If Google were to become a monopolist in the digital books/subscription services area, many companies would find it hard to compete.
Suppose that Google were to start selling access to digital book collections would that be a concern? These thoughts were in part stimulated by the announcement of … Keep Reading