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Continue reading →: The Arcadia Project Blog: Context and meaning in search
Some good thinking this! I suppose the point of all this is that context gives language meaning. Which is all very well if you’re building a house, buying some cabbages, throwing a party etc. But what about when you “speak” into a search box. Where do you get your context…
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Continue reading →: What Publishers Can Learn From The Godfather
Great post by Dan Blank on publishing and the Godfather! One interesting example, as usual, is Apple. They created entire economies around their products that encouraged new companies and new products to come into being. Their App Store is indicative of this – it is a new form of marketplace.…
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Continue reading →: VAT is bad news, but we have to accept it
An excellent defence of a position that even the author accepts is somewhat inconsistent! Lastly and most significantly, we don’t want to attract too much attention to the VAT-free status of books at a time when seemingly any kind of taxation or expenditure is up for grabs. On the positive…
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Continue reading →: Call to pool cultural resources – The Irish Times – Thu, Jul 08, 2010
Nothing to argue with here. in fact I think Irish publishers should heed this most of all. Our native companies are too small to compete properly as trade publishers and unprepared for the changes being wrought by digital technologies. “We’re very much a small sector and we stand to lose…
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