High Prices Threaten to Kill Tablet Adoption
(pcworld.com): Are high prices going to push the nascent tablet computing platform into a nose dive it can't recover from? The biggest issue with high pricing is that it creates a high-end niche for tablets. It's as if manufacturers have decided the best way forward is exclusivity: Sell fewer tablets… Read More
Have Media Companies Destroyed Their Copyrights With The ‘Share’ Button?
(paidcontent.org): Righthaven has become controversial by taking a sue-first-ask-questions-later approach to copyright enforcement on behalf of its newspaper clients, which include MediaNews Group as well as the smaller chain that owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Most content companies, by contrast, are content with more low-key methods of making sure their… Read More
U.S. Consumers More Likely to Purchase a Smartphone Than Other Consumer Devices in 2011
(gartner.com): Consumers in the United States are more likely to buy a smartphone in 2011 than PCs, mobile phones, e-readers, media tablets and gaming products, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. U.S. smartphone sales are expected to grow from 67 million units in 2010 to 95 million units… Read More
Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): With the recent surge in library e-book sales, serials aggregators are racing to add e-books to their platforms. ProQuest’s recent acquisition of ebrary and JSTOR’s expansion into current journals and e-books signal a shift from standalone e-book and e-journal aggregator platforms to mixed content gateways, with e-books and e-journals… Read More
Lure of iPad subscriptions may outweigh pain for publishers
(macvideo.tv): There may not be a ton of enthusiasm in the publishing world for Apple's new policy for subscription services--particularly when it comes to giving Cupertino a 30 percent slice of the pie. But the iPad juggernaut may be too big for many publishers to risk pushing back. Read More
Share the knowledge, health researchers say
(ottawacitizen.com): Medical researchers from Ottawa and Britain want all their colleagues to tell the world what studies they’re working on. Sometimes the left lab doesn’t know what the right lab is doing. The call to announce new studies publicly applies to “systematic reviews,” which are wide-ranging summaries of all the… Read More
Book stores struggling to compete with new technology
(ksby.com): The technology age is leaving book stores in it's wake and local stores have not been immune to decreased business due to more people reading books from a computer screen. Statistics from the International Digital Publishing Forum say national eBook sales more than doubled from 2008 to 2009 and… Read More
Content may be king, but delivery is the ace
(washingtontechnology.com): The more you use content as a sharing tool as opposed to a selling tool, the more likely it is that you will get more and better leads. Content that delivers good information in a way that does not put people to sleep is more likely to go viral… Read More
Apple Subscription Service Rules Smack of Greed: Publishers
(eweek.com): Apple is running afoul of publishers and creative types for its App Store subscription service rules for iPad and iPhone. Will it make changes to satisfy publishers? Apple's rules regarding its subscription service for its iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone have boomeranged across the tech publishing industry, with publishers… Read More
In the age of the iPad and Kindle, libraries are to be defended, not emptied
(caledonianmercury.com): There is much righteous and articulate protest at the moment about the fate of libraries, in the era of deficit-justified public sector cuts. The library was the original “third place”, a zone for people to contemplate and connect between work and home, well before branded coffee shops and boutique… Read More
