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Genesis of an Australian digital publishing taskforce

August 28, 2008

So yesterday I attended a meeting in Melbourne of various industry types to discuss the need for/benefits of an Australian industry-led taskforce for digital publishing. It was interesting. First up, it’s worth noting the breakdown of attendees. The meeting was jointly hosted by the federal government arts agency Australia Council for the Arts (Ozco) and Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), [...]

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Tools of Change on DVD

July 9, 2008

Hey neato! I was just on the Tools of Change blog and realised that they’ve now released a series of DVDs aimed at publishers needing to develop knoweldge and understanding of the future of publishing. The set includes four DVDs covering: digitising your backlist making mobile work XML for publishers search engine optimisation for publishers [...]

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Lies, damn lies and statistics

June 20, 2008

More from HarperCollins, this time some sweet data on the results of their recent experiements with “free”. Publishers Weekly reported that at recent panels at BEA and the IDPF Digital Book conference HarperCollins shared the results of digital giveaway campaigns they did with books by Neil Gaiman, Erin Hunter and Robin Hobb. Here’s the skinny: [...]

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The literary web

March 9, 2008

Sebastian Mary has posted a thoughtful essayon if:book, the blog of the Institute for the Future of the Book, unpacking the debate around the ideology of ‘literary’ and its relationship to the web. This isn’t to suggest that there’s no room for ‘the literary’ online. Finding new writers; building a community to peer-review drafts; promoting [...]

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Once again, why do I want a device that only reads books?

March 7, 2008

Cory Doctorow has an excellent column at Locus Online about the economic conundrum of e-book readers. Frankly, book reading just isn’t important enough to qualify for priority treatment in that marketplace. E-book readers to date have been either badly made, expensive, out-of-stock or some combination of all three. No one’s making dedicated e-book readers in [...]

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