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Blood e-readers
I happened to catch some of Naomi Campbell's testimony at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial at the Hague about whether the supermodel received 'blood diamonds' from the former Liberian president,...
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A cloudy future
The e-book wars have entered the next phase. First Google eBooks (the artist formerly known as Google Editions—the new name far, far clearer for the consumer, surely) launches in the US, to be followed...
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Questions for 2011, part 1: Will the agency model hold?
2011 opens with perhaps more uncertainty than most years for the trade. You all know the reasons why: a stuttering economy, a shaky high street, falling print sales and, germane to this site,...
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Questions for 2011, part deux: What price J K Rowling's digital rights?
Stratospheric. Rowling, the longtime e-book refusenik, indicated last year through the Christopher Little Agency (CLA) that the time is nigh for something to finally be done with the Harry Potter...
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Shifting sands
Does this announcement signify the new battlefield in the e-book wars (apologies for that increasingly tired metaphor)? A couple of days after the Sony Reader for Android App was launched, the news has...
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The fragility of digital
My favourite story of the week was Brewster Kahle (pictured), the MIT brainbox who 15 years ago founded the Internet Archive, announcing to the Associated Press that he is building an archive for every...
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Doing the digital splits
So John Locke, the million-plus e-book-selling self-publishing poster boy, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster US. This is a few months after Amanda Hocking, self-publishing's poster girl,...
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Measuring the Amazon
There are many pertinent questions that need answering in the digital books market. Here are just a few: What is the actual size of the overall e-book sector? What is the hard data telling us about the...
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Sounds or silence?
Paul Cameron admits that the official launch of Booktrack—a company that is for the moment heavily linked to the Apple ecosystem—might have benefited from a bit better timing. "We launched about 12...
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FutureBook 2013: Brad Stone Q&A
Brad Stone is senior journalist for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and speaker at FutureBook 2013.You managed to penetrate Amazon’s culture of secrecy. Why do you think it is such a tight-mouthed company?read...
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