This month has seen the launch of an app which is entrpreneural in nature and innovative in concept. Read more »

I’m addicted to Downton Abbey. I’ll admit to loving the costumes a little too much, but it’s the parallels between the Edwardian era and our digital age that really captivate me. Automobiles were a luxury. Electricity was new; the telephone was new. Maggie Smith’s character commented that the era was like an HG Wells novel - and many of her contemporaries didn’t trust the new technology at all! Sounds familiar.  Read more »

Getting to the consumer, getting the right content to that consumer, and then making this consumer pay for that content: these were the main concerns raised in the morning sessions at Digital Minds, the London Book Fair's digital conference, held each year before the show. Read more »

It seems now not to be a matter of if, or even when, but how the Nook will arrive in the UK. Many publishers we've spoken to over the past week suggest that a London Book Fair announcement is coming from the giant US bookseller Barnes & Noble. This makes sense. B&N needs a stage and LBF has always provided a publicity platform for such launches: think Google many years ago. Read more »