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First, a disclaimer before my daughter and I review our shiny new iPad: our religious leaning; we are regular visitors to the high church of Jobs. Read more »

Some interesting stats sent to me by my man Peter Collingridge at Apt Studios about a month or so ago, based on a little site they launched a year ago today called  Bookseer. The site was built as a bit of a lark, based on the Book Industry Conference's Bookaholic idea. It's pretty simple: you plug in what book you've just finished reading and it spits out recommendations from Amazon, LibraryThing and other booky websites.  Read more »

You may have been following myself, @tomtivnan, and intrepid Bookseller senior reporter Graeme Neill's (@gnei11) attempts to buy an iPad this morning on #bookselleriQueue. I, alas, didn't manage to snag one, but Graeme at the Apple store in Westfield did, and has brought it into Bookseller Towers. Read more »

The iPad launches tomorrow. You may have missed that because Apple has been really quiet about it. In a gonzo, ker-azy journalistic exercise—something I imagine Hunter S Thompson might have done if he found himself working for a publishing trade magazine—Bookseller senior reporter Graeme Neill and I will be queueing up with regular punters at the crack of dawn to try to buy one at central London Apple and Curry's stores. Read more »

Energetic twitterer and author Ben Johncock has reviewed the iPad for theBookseller.com. His review can be found here, and an excerpt reproduced below. We hope to review the iPad on launch date (28th) assuming we can get hold of the device from the high street. If Ben is correct then we could really be talking about a revoluation in the way we read and think about reading. Anyway over to Ben: Read more »

“Free distribution of premium content is like eating your babies. You will give value away until you go bust,” writes Group M.

There is an excellent article in todays FT:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea7dfefa-68f4-11df-910b-00144feab49a.html

The article highlights more paywalls going up and an even bigger shift to charging for online content by the news community. Read more »

I am pulling together reviews of the main e-Readers currently on the market. Reviewed by people in the book trade. So if you are an author, publicist, editor, MD, librarian or bookseller and would like to review your e-Reader of choice, please contact me: sam.missingham@bookseller.co.uk Read more »

I have a view that, as publishers, we need to take our product to our consumers, rather than make consumers come to us. If millions of people have chosen the NDSi as their digital medium, then we need to be taking relevant content to them on that platform. Read more »

In July 2009, we implemented a community strategy at F+W Media International (David & Charles as we were then). Nearly 12 months on, it's interesting to reflect on what we have learnt, successes and where forward opportunities lie. Read more »

Well, they are coming out thick and fast in the tablet market, aren't they? O2 and Dell are launching the Dell Streak just a week after the iPad comes out (4th June). O2 will sell the Android-based tablet exclusively in the UK through O2 stores and online at www.o2.co.uk and www.carphonewarehouse.com. Read more »