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Sometimes it’s good to have your head in the clouds
What is cloud hosting? Cloud hosting means storing content in a central location where multiple people can access it. When explained like this, it doesn’t quite live up to the rather exotic name (I’m...
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Spotify for Books
It is a little over a year ago when music blog Music Alley announced that the music streaming service Spotify was going to diversify beyond music and into books by adding a catalogue of more than...
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Tell me a tale of books and pirates and clouds! The story of 24symbols
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was a realm in which one economic sector had been using the same business model for many years. The author created a work, the publisher selected a work...
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All the e-books you can eat?
As I write this, I am listening to the newest album from The Gorillaz, which was released a mere couple of weeks ago – and I didn't pay a penny for it. Well, technically I paid something for it,...
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The digitization of all media means that more and more organizations are coping with difficult times. Including the book world. The book world is just experiencing the transformation from analogue to...
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Fac-ebook enters the fray
Kobo’s recent announcement that they are going to roll out their social reading platform Pulse to enable FaceBook users to share and discover books brings Facebook into play.read more
View ArticleA Thousand Flowers Bloom
In fits and starts, Spanish publishing is poised to join the digital (r)evolution. Rather than the imminent landing of the major international players, a proof of this has been the XIX Liber (October...
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Spotify Redefines Music - Again
"We want music to be like water -- available everywhere, available seamlessly," Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek.read more
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Music Industry Comparison: Part #8967 (sorry)
Yes, I know, I know, but let’s not worry about all the “is/isn’t the record industry a good comparison for books” stuff. None of it matters if a comparison is interesting, and whichever side of that...
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Why Netflix for eBooks won’t work. Today.
It seems that not a week goes by recently when we hear about a company that is “Netflix for eBooks” or “Spotify for publishing”. While I think that the industry desperately needs innovation and fresh...
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