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Continue reading →: Moving Up The Value Chain: How Digital Publishing Disrupts
A good while ago now (nearly 2 and half years I think) I wrote a piece called Whither Publishing In The Twenty Teens? It looked at the changes in publishing which I argued were being driven by digital publishing over the internet. I made a prediction in that post: 3) Quality and curation…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Apps nudge ahead of websites for smartphone reading | Lean Back 2.0
I’m intrigued by this news. I know how tempting it can be to use an app rather than even the best browser on a smaller screen (and by the way Chrome mobile for Android is my flavour). Even so I find it hard to believe that the app is the end point of this…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Google Nexus 7: ebooks’ sleeping giant finally has its own reader | The Verge
Nice piece from Tim Carmody over at The Verge. I think he’s asking the right questions and saying the right things. I’d note one small thing though, which is that ALL the tech giants have been using reading to sell tablets, its obviously feeding back to them that users may…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | International restructure for Holtzbrinck | The Bookseller
Very interesting indeed! From 2nd July, the company is to operate through three divisions. Global Trade, managed by Sargent, will encompass all the consumer book publishing operations of the Group, including all the US, German, UK and Australian houses. Thomas will have management of a Global Science and Education division,…
