Microsoft are developing some incredibly cool image technologies. They are highly relevant to the way magazines, newspapers and books will be viewed and read on the screen in years to come. From O’Reilly I found a link to an amazing presentation of Seadragon and Photosynth from this year’s TED conference, by one of the developers, Blaise Aguera y Arcas.
One of his examples shows a digital edition of the Guardian (one of the very, very few newspapers which publishes a … Keep Reading
Google has antagonised many publishers by scanning and databasing books held in libraries, which are not out of copyright, and for which Google has not sought permission from the publisher or copyright holder. Some publishers have launched court cases, others are on the verge of direct action.
The court cases will proabably decide these matters in the end, but I wonder whether Google really needs to upset its potential partners by appearing to ignore the claims of copyright?… Keep Reading
We don’t often see CEO’s of major magazine companies talking intelligently and aggressively about their plans for the web. So its refreshing to read the interview with Ann Moore, CEO of Time Inc, on the Paid Content blog. She voices the fear which chills publishers when they look at the economics of web advertising, and lays out her approach here:
… Keep ReadingHere is the strategy. First, build the best of product. Differentiate it. Second, build the big audience and
We have just introduced the option to sort your search results, by the date of publication of the issue in which the search term appears. If you search the 50-odd “open access” trial issues, for occurrences of ‘David Cameron” there are currently 23 results, and they will be sorted by relevance (the default setting — which will weight more highly a page on which “David Cameron” is a high proportion of the text on the page),
or by newest,… Keep Reading
There are lots of magazine blogs. But there is a real paucity of blogs about the magazine business: its commercial prospects, the strategic issue of adapting to the web, competitive intelligence and innovation. Book publishers, by contrast, are getting to be very bloggy-minded. We regularly tune in to book publishing blogs such as Charkinblog, O’Reilly’s Radar (which is a gold star technology blog with good publishing angles). Brantley’s blog and the hugely informative Open Access News. Michael Cairns … Keep Reading
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