Thursday, January 28th, 2010
I have spent hours looking for the perfect article that matches or at least parallels my first impression of the iPad. Many are laughing at the name; I say get over it. It really does not matter that people can and have made fun of it. I ...Monday, January 4th, 2010
In her annual year-end letter to employees, Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, urged her colleagues to fight the price deterioration that has accompanied the rise of eBooks. Ms. Reidy wrote, "We must do everything in our power to uphold the value of our content against the downward pressures ...Monday, October 26th, 2009
Developments in the eReader market are happening faster than anyone can keep track of, and that includes me. It seems that new products are being released on a daily basis. And each of these products has new, interesting and advantageous technologies. The Barnes and Noble new eReader has what ...Friday, September 18th, 2009
In the last few weeks, I have published several articles in my daily newsletter about the increased use of innovative technologies and the synergies between printed magazines and digital tag-along inserts. There have been stories of including real video advertising in a printed newsstand magazine, 3D advertising combining a ...Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
A couple of months ago, a representative from some public interest group rang my doorbell and tried to get me to sign some petition or other and give them money. I declined, not necessarily because I disagreed with their positions, but because I refuse to encourage door-to-door canvassing. I told ...Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Today, WhatTheyThink just released my special report on “electronic books,” or “e-books” titled E-Books and E-Publishing Primer. I acknowledge that in some parts of the industry, writing about e-books is tantamount to heresy, so to avoid a printing industry auto-da-fe, I have fled to Santa Fe. So I am ...
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