The 3 Big Themes of O’Reilly Tools of Change

February 26, 2010

Snow flurries in New York have forced me indoors and given me a chance to catch up on my notes from the 2010 O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, which concluded yesterday after three turbo-charged days of conversation and ideas. I’ll post detailed accounts of individual sessions, some of which are still pinging around [...]

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TOC2010: From the front lines of digital publishing

February 22, 2010

So, um, haven’t posted to the blog for a while. Shut up, is why! Okay, I’ve been a bit busy working behind the curtain towards the launch of if:book Australia (coming soon!) But, look over here! Shiny thing! Digital publishing conference! O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing, in fact! I’ll be tweeting TOC 2010 over the [...]

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Downloading Optimism: Pessimism virus detected

November 19, 2009

via BoingBoing – comic artist Lucy Knisley has posted a charming and eloquent defence of digital reading, in the form of a comic, on her blog ArtJournal. I adored this, but not quite as much as her 1980s re-imagining of Harry Potter, complete with David Bowie and a Neverending Story luck dragon.

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Paju Bookcity

November 18, 2009

I’m in South Korea for the Paju Bookcity Forum to speak about digital business models for publishing. Paju Bookcity is a new industrial precinct built entirely around books and publishing. That, of course, is a dry factual statement. Instead I should have hooked you into my tale by saying that Paju Bookcity is a magical [...]

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Copyright restrictions on parallel imports to stay

November 11, 2009

Well, the battle is over (for now). The Australian Government has today announced that current copyright legislation forbidding parallel importation of books will remain unchanged. The Australian and Bookseller+Publisher have reported the news and the full statement from Dr Craig Emerson, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, can be found here. I like Sophie Cunningham’s [...]

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