Category Archives: Digital

While everyone else is talking about Harry Potter this week, I want to focus on a different work of fiction. A story that got me very excited at the weekend. It was the news that David Worlock had been appointed … Read more →

Is it finally here? Is it? Maybe just around the corner? Thanks to jwesterman for bringing this latest piece of breathtaking Japanese technology to my attention. Here’s a quick video demo.

I’m pleased to see that, while I’ve been hard at work flanneuring around the Online Marketing Show (more of which later), the Internet seems to have become the hot topic of the week for publishers, with not one but two … Read more →

This week has seen the first O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in San Jose, California, with much coverage in the blogosphere, including on Print is Dead. Wednesday’s keynote speaker at TOC, Manolis Kelaidis, presented an intriguing mash-up of … Read more →

Textbook companion websites are dead. Long live subject portals! Textbook publishers are in a bit of an odd situation with their book websites: they pay to develop digital supplements that they don’t make money from, and which aren’t used by … Read more →

Well, really. Ever since the Margaret Atwood event last month, reported here under the future of the book, there has been an ongoing debate about a rather odd acid-test for e-readers: yes, but can you read it in the bath? … Read more →

Much debate over on Richard Charkin’s blog this week about Andrew Marr’s piece in Friday’s Guardian entitled Curling up with a good ebook. Do join the discussion if you wish. Even Andrew Marr, an admitted book-as-object fetishist who describes his … Read more →

I love MONOCLE magazine. And not just because Tyler Brûlé is at the helm – one publisher against whom the ‘publisher as arbiter of taste’ argument actually stands up. The magazine is well-produced – even a lovely object, with its … Read more →

At the risk of making this Macmillan News Week (feel free to send me your news@publishingtalk.eu!), it has come to my attention that Sara Lloyd, Head of Digital Publishing at Pan Macmillan and friend of the show, was appearing live … Read more →

In January this year, Google hosted a conference in New York called Unbound: Advancing Book Publishing in a Digital World. The video excerpts below highlight the issues I believe we should be discussing in relation to the future of the … Read more →