In my posting Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’ (Auricle, 1 September 2009) I argued that newspapers are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. Their current business model is failing because of the internet but yet a compensatory move online is confounded, so the press barons would argue, due to a […]
Archive for the ‘ePublishing’ Category
Google as the digital ‘Library of Alexandria’?
November 3rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 3 November 2009 There’s an interesting On the Media item called The Infinite Shelf (27 March 2009) about Google’s vision of creating the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. I think it’s well worth listening to the MP3 download of this interview with Harvard’s Robert Darnton author of Google & the […]
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice
October 16th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 16 October 2009 As a follow on to my posting JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts (Auricle, 15 October 2009) I note that Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice (Grainne Conole and Martin Oliver – Eds) is now available, in the US at least, as an ebook […]
JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts
October 15th, 2009
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JISC offers a growing archive of podcasts. The 15 September 2009 podcast e-Books provide ‘safety valve’ for librarians caught my eye (and ears). Those interested in how ebooks may impact on scholarly information sharing and dissemination may find the findings of the underlying research by the National E-Books Observatory Project most interesting. Key points of […]
Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’
September 1st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 1 September 2009 One of my areas of interest is what is happening to the newspaper industry and how, and if, they manage to get out of the nose dive to extinction they currently appear to be in. There’s a lot written about this phenomenon of the digital age but I found […]
They’re coming to take your content away!
August 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
The World Technology podcast – (e)book oriented edition
July 18th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 18 July 2009 The first 16 minutes or so of the The World’s Technology podcast 241 (MP3, 1 May 2009) is worth a listen for all of those interested in the future of books in all their paper and digital forms. The World is a one hour radio programme broadcast in the […]
eBook development gets newspapers “out of gaol”?
July 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 July 2009 Does the following represent as possible “get out of gaol” for the newspaper industry? Or is it just an interesting cul de sac? The current generation of ebook readers don’t do visual multimedia, they try to be a two dimensional paper analogue; al la paperback format, e.g. Sony Reader […]
Books are a networked object?
July 6th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 6 July 2009 There was a most interesting feature about the Open Library initiative titled The Library that Never Closes in last week’s Guardian (2 July 2009) which I think is worth reading. Here’s a few snippets to encourage you to read the full article. “Imagine books more as a networked object, […]
“Enhanced” e-Books
May 24th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 24 May 2009 It’s not hard to imagine a light robust e-book type device that can also display enhanced content. so The future of books and electronic reading (Sunday Times, 24 May 2009) caught my eye and merited further investigation. But the Random House Book and Beyond Project web site states: Download […]
