After 15 years working in Book Publishing and 6 years at HarperCollins I can now announce that I will be leaving the industry to work for NDM (News Digital Media) as a Technology Manager. My time in publishing has been a great one especially through the significant changes in distribution, information management and now digital [...]

The challenge of marketing direct to the consumer is a conversation that often comes up a lot in media, especially in book publishing. The reality is that although it gets a lot of voice there are very few examples of it actually happening. I have just finished reading a short book from Larry Dignan the [...]

Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of some of the largest and most interesting technology companies including Steve Wozniak from Apple, Max Levchin from PayPal, Mitch Kapor from Lotus and Caterina Fake from Flickr. It is absolutely fascinating to see how some of the most famous tech businesses got started and [...]

I spoke at the Adobe Digital Publishing Forum recently “The output process has changed. It is not just the printer, we have to take into account how and where people want to read, whether it is an eBook, an application, website or syndicated partner. For all these we face the challenge of outputting to multiple [...]

CEO Michael Moynahan says, “As we pursue growth in an ever-changing market, it is essential we are creative and fast moving.  To that end we have decided to establish an exciting new area within the company charged with finding ambitious innovative solutions.” I’m delighted to announce that Spiros Kotsialos will take on responsibility for coordinating [...]

Telco’s have recently started to offer business consolidated wireless plans where they can purchase for instance 40 gigabytes a month and have as many simm card’s as they want attached to it. Today individuals are still locked into one device, one simm plans. Telco’s seems to be ever dominated by the device, probably because of [...]

Check out the news on Kindle 2.  seems more like a chance to make some minor modifications than a significant upgrade. http://gizmodo.com/5058968/amazons-kindle-2-suddenly-appears

Ebooks beginning to reach UK readers An interesting article from the Guardian in the UK, showing Waterstone’s sold 30,000 Sony Readers in the first three months. Only 75,000 eBooks were downloaded in the same period. The eBooks sold vs eBooks downloaded brings into question; How many of the units sold are just presents that people will never [...]

Read this article to see a new way to look at book signings in the day of the e-book. Texas’ First Ever Ebook Signing To Be Held At The Blanco Public Library, Saturday, Jan 3   Must also bring into question will the personalisation of e-book content in the future be a key to its success?