Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 28): Turow and Authors, Library Incinerator, Open Access, Apple Decision, Responsive FT, Linguistic Rowling + More

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Gene Schwartz writing in Book Business magazine about Scott Turow's advocacy for the lowly author ( Book Business ): Copyright protecti...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Justice Department declares emphatic victory in price fixing case against Apple eBookstore

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In a decision which will undoubtedly be appealed but which opens the possibility of hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and restitu...
Monday, December 10, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 50): MOOC Business Model, Popova Profile, Tim Cook, Printing 15th Century + More,

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Wondering where the business model is for MOOCs? Some providers are now charging for access to student data ( Chronicle ): On Tuesday, Cou...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 47): App Developers, Saylor Education, 'Stealing Content', Free Apps + More

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Why the App Developer's life is like an author's: lonely, expensive and (generally) anonymous ( NYTimes ): For many of the develop...
Monday, April 30, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 18): Cloud Education, Navigating LBF, NYPL Rennovations, Pottermore + More

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Is the cloud the future to revolutionizing education?  Gordon Freedman in the Chronicle proposes some interesting ideas ( Chron ): The pro...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Outsell Report: Where Next for Textbooks?

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Outsell spoke to us about the changes going on in education specifically in the development of custom textbooks and interviewed me for the r...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

An Apple for the Teacher

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To the average Apple aficionado, today’s spectacle on Apple’s entry into the education space would have seemed just par for the course.  Hy...
Monday, December 26, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 52): Year in Review

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Looks like I only missed three editions this year: Week 51: ChromeBooks, Durrell eBooks, Hitchens & Dogs, Unbound & Vogue We...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 46): WW I Archive Goes Online, Mrs Beeton's 150, Silicon Valley's Daily, Cookbook Aps +More

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An archive trove of documents relating to the first world war is to go online ( Guardian) : Living witnesses to the war may no longer be w...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

MediaWeek (Vol 3, No 24): Freak Show, Penguin's Canadian Problem, Textbook Reinvention

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On the road with an economist. Steven Dubner and the Superfreakonomics show ( Observer ): It's bizarre to think that the crash might...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Big Kindle Goes to School (Shrug)

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The launch of Big Kindle looks like another round in the continuing Apple vs Amazon cage fight . Amazon looks to be on the defensive as the...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Amazon Versus Apple: Is This A Cage Fight?

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Amazon is buying Audible.com for $300mm: This changes everything. Audible is already a destination site for Audio books (and content) what m...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Jobs Kicks the Kindle

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In the bits blog on the NYTimes Steve Jobs gets it right for the Kindle but for all the wrong reasons: Mr. Jobs can be like that when he ass...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

E-book Reader for IPhone

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Via teleRead an application for the IPhone that enables the reading of over 10000 books on the IPhone. Adam at Exact Editions will be exci...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Do we have an e-book winner: Exact Editions thinks so

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Exact Editions stepped up the pressure on Steve Jobs by suggesting that the " iphone is the best ebook ever " not just the best iP...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Apple ebook reader for iPod - What a Cool Idea

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I found this link to a 'design proposal' that would combine an IPOD with a tablet like e-book reader. It is a pretty cool concept. A...
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Friday, June 01, 2007

IPhone: The best IPOD we have ever made

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Walt Mosberg interviews Steve Jobs about the Apple business - well worth watching. "we are in three businesses and a hobby" Apple...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Amazon To Launch DRM Free Music Store

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The days of DRM protected music are definitely numbered. Amazon.com is announcing that they will launch a DRM free music store later this ye...