Monthly Archives: February 2010

iBooks or Apps? The publisher’s dilemma

February 24, 2010 – 7:51 am

Should publishers sell books using Apple’s App Store or iBookstore?
Many publishers have started using the iPhone App Store as a channel to sell book content by packaging e-books as applications. There are currently 18,000 books in the App Store, and books are the fastest growing category of application in the store.
With the launch of the [...]

By Richard Padley | Posted in E-books, Mobile, Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models | Post a comment | 2 comments

The value chain strikes back: Google and the history of copyright

February 18, 2010 – 3:15 pm

In an article in the London Review of Books in 1995 John Sutherland wrote: ‘Momentous changes in copyright law, such as those of 1710, 1842, 1890 and 1911, are preceded by periods of turmoil and radical uncertainty about the rights and wrongs of intellectual property. We are in such a period now.’
Sutherland could hardly have [...]

By John Helmer | Posted in Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models | Post a comment | 4 comments

The Challenge of Online Identity: Part 3

February 3, 2010 – 2:27 pm

This is the third and last of a series of blog posts (see part one and part two) in which I set out to examine the current state of identity management in our industry and where it’s going. The real point of this series has been to answer the question (which will be familiar to [...]

By Richard Padley | Posted in Access and identity management, Online Identity 2.0, Online Publishing Market, Publishing business models, Technology | Post a comment | 0 comments

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