Author: Stan Shinn (Page 98 of 111)

Michael Hyatt envisions the death of traditional book publishing:

I am convinced that we are only one device away from a digital publishing tsunami. Consider what happened when Apple launched the iPod in October of 2001. They provided an end-to-end solution that made downloading music easy, portable, and fun. Now,
30-plus million iPods later, iPods are everywhere.

Read more: From Where I Sit: The Death of Traditional Book Publishing

J. Mark Bertrand has something brewing:

"You’ll have to supply the soundtrack yourself. Imagine the Gorillaz doing "Clint Eastwood" — The future is coming on — or maybe Kate Bush’s "Cloudbusting" — I just know that something good is going to happen. Something good is going to happen, but I can’t tell you about it yet. All I can do is flash the logo up and let you wonder. I can’t tell you what "LiT" is or what the name signifies. I can’t tell you what it means for you. All I can say is that it’s coming. And it’s gonna be cool.

Stay tuned…."

It apparently involves espionage, stealth dialog . . . and Ninjas. Or something.

Hmmm. What is it? Stay tuned at www.jmarkbertrand.com

Google launched a controversial digital book site:

The Internet search giant said the initial collection will include "public domain" works — those without current copyright protection — in an apparent effort to ease concerns that have led to legal challenges.

"Because they’re out of copyright, these cultural artifacts can be read in their entirety online at http://print.google.com, where anyone can search and browse every page," Google said in a statement.

"They are fully searchable and users can save individual page images."

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Google launched its controversial effort to digitize millions of books for online viewing — but said it would limit access to any copyrighted material for now.

I imagine in a few years no one will give this a second thought, and will be amazed there was ever a world without this feature. There has been quite a furor over this, but I can’t see this as anything but a good thing. 

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