Recently in EPS Insight, a daily email update produced and distributed by Electronic Publishing Services, Ltd, Steve Sieck described two new Science, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing products that caught my eye. The products were presented at last week’s annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Here are excerpts of what Steve had to… Read More
The debate around the future of the book continues! Here are some interesting links: The New York Times article that probably started this round: Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules Richard Charkin’s post Are books dead? Jeff Jarvis’ post, Book.net Publishing 2.0 post: Books as Continually Updated Idea Platforms, by Scott Karp I continue… Read More
That’s the question Richard Charkin (CEO Macmillan) poses today on his blog. To answer that question fairly, I believe you need to consider the ways in which we use books. For centuries, books were the only mechanism available to store and share information. Wouldn’t you all agree that there are now much better ways to… Read More
David Pogue recently published an article about MovieBeam in the New York Times: Renting Movies with a Box and a Beam. “MovieBeam is a brilliant new way to rent and watch movies at home. Get movies delivered directly to your TV — no cable, satellite, or computer is required! Movies are beamed wirelessly into your… Read More
There was a great post today on Charkin Blog written by Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillan publishers in the UK. It’s a one page "wiring diagram" of all of the interested parties in their publishing process. It doesn’t get into the internal process of creating product. Instead, it covers the landscape of all the players… Read More
Steve Baker of Blogspotting (part of BusinessWeek online) had an entry on May 24th entitled: How about a national identity and health IDs? We have consented to relinquish some of our rights to privacy (think supermarket club cards, security checks at the airport, EZpass lanes on toll roads) for something in return (discounts, safety, convenience).… Read More
Last night I watched the season finale of Six Feet Under – ok, so I’m a little late. How does that relate to a blog about change? Here’s how… I used to work way too much (another story). After reorganizing my life and catching up on the more important things, I turned to TV I… Read More
I recently read an article in the New York Times about MySpace. One passage at the end really grabbed my attention: “In some ways, MySpace has assumed the role America Online held a decade ago when it introduced e-mail services and Internet chat to the masses … AOL lost its place in the social lives… Read More