FutureBook

I've talked about curation already, and I just wanted to share this with y'all...

Wired has a piece this month about Hunch, the online prediction service. I've just signed up to it for the first time and it's eerily good - especially when you compare its results with Amazon's more flaky "you might also enjoy". Read more »

Soooo... during the merry month of August, while most of the world is on holiday, the revolution may have happened. Read more »

When Amazon announced last week that it was going to sell Kindle books through Amazon.co.uk, it said it was going to have the lowest e-book prices. That wasn't an empty promise. Read more »

At least at first sight, there are three reasons why the development of e-book markets is much slower in continental Europe than in the USA. Firstly, there is no European Amazon. The reason for this is quite obvious: thanks to linguistic diversity, there are no online retailers that could sell and distribute all the books published in all the European languages in the same way that Amazon distributes and sells almost all books published in English. Read more »

The book trailer has truly come of age when authors and publishers start taking the piss out of the form. Here, Leningrad-born American comic novelist Gary Shteyngart sends himself up as an illiterate whose Russian accent came from an experience with hallucinogens back in university to hype his new book Super Sad True Love Story (published in the UK by Granta in September). Read more »

I am pulling together profile pieces from digital publishing professionals. If you would like to be involved, please email me at sam.missingham@bookseller.co.uk. This is the profile of Shane Rae who is Digital Publishing Manager for Macmillan. His role includes being the social media strategist for Macmillan, these are his thoughts on this specific area:  Read more »

Amazon has had enhanced e-books for the Kindle (or what it calls Kindle Edition with Audio/Video) for a little over a month, launching with 13 titles in late June, and at this writing there are 32 on the Kindle Store. At the moment, of course, the enhanced versions are not for the Kindle devices, but the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Kindle apps.  Read more »

Footfall. Always an important measure of success for the public library. How many customers / users step through the front door and into your library. We must, we must improve our visitor figures. For the library service, as a tool for performance management, visitor figures remain Very Important. Read more »

I was on CNN on Friday to be a talking head about the Kindle and e-books overtaking hardbacks on Amazon (if anyone wants to see it, my mom back in the US has taped it off the Tivo). Read more »

Mobile Learning

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