Like many other devastatingly witty and handsome geeks worldwide, I’ve recently been engrossed in a seemingly endless saga of dynastic intrigue, vicious betrayal, espionage and political corruption. But enough about the Leveson inquiry! Ha ha, I’m here all week, please enjoy the buffet. Read more »

With less than a 2 % market share, e-books are still to come in Denmark. 

The year 2011 saw a small breakthrough for e-books in Denmark.  However, we are still waiting for the big sales figures to kick in. While we are waiting, some questions are vital. Who will drive the Danish e-book market? How to deal with pricing? What kinds of business models will suit the digital book market? And how can we embrace the new possibilities? Read more »

The current UK number one hardback fiction title, Private Games by Patterson & Sullivan, selling a less than overwhelming five thousand copies is selling through Amazon at £9.49, with a Kindle edition at £6.39. The previous week’s number one, Stuart MacBride’s Birthdays for the Dead, is currently selling for £7.00 in hardback and £6.99 in Kindle.

Private Games is at thirty six on the kindle charts. Birthdays for the Dead at a hundred and twenty six. There are a grand total of three titles in the Kindle top fifty with prices over five pounds. Read more »

You might not know it yet but January 10th 2012 was a big day for the internet and everyone who accesses information through Google.
 
January 10th was the day that Google introduced* what they are calling Google Search Plus Your World (which most commentators are now referring to simply as Social Search).
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