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Pearson gets smart and cuts out the middleman
This week came some news that got the Australian Twitterverse buzzing – Pearson has bought the online assets of REDGroup – that is, the angusrobertson.com.au and Borders.com.au sales portals and...
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The trouble with eBooks: publishers defying the laws of physics
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it – Upton Sinclair How do you lend an ebook? This is the problem that confronted public...
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf and the Australian publishing industry
A couple of weeks ago I attended Book Camp Australia, an unconference held at the Wheeler Centre as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival and put together by if:book – the Institute for the future of...
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Blogs and the post-paper library
My title this week is a little provocative. I’m unconvinced of the imminent, or even eventual, complete death of all ‘dead tree’ publishing. Much, however, will move to electronic and just as we in...
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Libraries as software – dematerialising, platforms and returning to first...
Ever since I read Marcus Westbury’s article about Renew Newcastle, Cities as software, last year I’ve been thinking about how the concepts he writes about can be applied to libraries. For those who...
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Why everyone is probably wrong about the DoJ ebooks case
I didn’t mean to write a post about this, but I couldn’t help myself. Some of you won’t like what I have to say. I have been following the Department of Justice versus Apple and the Big Five case for...
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