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日本語 The future of publishing ― Interview with Mr. Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
What is the future of publishing?
We interviewed Mr. Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Hope you’ll enjoy the interview.
Hiroki Kamata and Roberto V. Zicari. (Editors)
Self Revealing: Who are your friends in Facebook?
Who are the friends in Facebook?
The question seem at first trivial: everyone who is part of your network in Facebook. But if we consider the questions once more, a number questions come to mind:
The future of publishing ― Interview with Mr. Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
What is the future of publishing?
We interviewed Mr. Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Hope you’ll enjoy the interview.
Hiroki Kamata and Roberto V. Zicari. (Editors)
CONTENT BUSINESS
US Publishers blessed E-Books leading the industry
According to the monthly release of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), “E-Books have enjoyed triple-digit percentage growth, 202.3%, vs February 2010, ranked as the #1 format among all categories of trade publishing in the U.S.” The market for printed books shrinked for double digits, as year-to-date 2011 vs YTD 2010: E-Books increased by 169.4% while all categories combined of print Trade books declined by 24.8%. (H. Kamata) [Read More...]
Consumer Driven Models From the Text Book Industry
from Publishing Perspectives: When the mere act of delivering content digitally isn’t enough, publishers today need to go beyond the book to embrace innovative ways to enhance the e-book purchase to meet their customer’s desire for convenience, personalization and flexibility. Textbook publishers are coming up with new sales models for digital content. John Konczal, Global Industry Executive of Sterling Commerce discusses the challenge. [Read More...]
DIGITAL EUROPE
Self Revealing: Who are your friends in Facebook?
Who are the friends in Facebook?
The question seem at first trivial: everyone who is part of your network in Facebook. But if we consider the questions once more, a number questions come to mind:
One minute of our time.
Many of us are very busy, engaged in activities, duties, hopes, worries, joy. This is our life.
But life can end within a few minutes or even less.
In dedication to those who suffer in Japan right now.
RVZ
“The middle is everywhere.”
Great thinkers do anticipate the future. They “feel” it. Better said, they “see” more clearly how things really are. Consider for example what the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” :
“The middle is everywhere.“
And now, try to find the “middle” in the Internet…. [Read More...]
Google News: Reputation, framing strategies and user’s choice of content on the Web.
I myself read Google news almost every day. Why? Because it is fast and I get an overview of some of the main significant news. Main significant news? In fact, I do not know. I do not know how Google select the news. Why some news made it to the page and why don’t?
In fact, when I read Google news, this is not so relevant for me. [Read More...]
Media consumption? Digital newspaper for the iPad.
Last Friday, I read an interesting news:(Reuters) Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 – ” News Corp and Apple Inc are delaying the launch of the media conglomerate’s digital newspaper for the iPad, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter”.
The interesting part of this news is not the delay of the launch, but the concept of a digital newspaper for the iPad. [Read More...]
Digital Odyssey?
It took Odysseus (Ulysses) ten years to return home. Leopold Bloom also returned home (Episode 17, Ithaca), but the events of Joyce’s Ulysses unfold over the course of a single day. I asked myself the daring question: What if Odysseus had had Facebook, an Internet-enabled phone, and a GPS?
Happy New Year! —RVZ
Digital Home?
Home.
Since the beginning of time, Mankind has always had a need of home. The journey back home is the key element of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus (Ulysses) took ten years to go back home. His home was Ithaca.
But can home be digital?
What is the “intention” of Facebook?
I asked myself the question, what is the real “intention” of Facebook?
In their research work, The Benefits of Facebook “Friends”, Nicole B. Ellison and Charles Steinfield (*) described Facebook as a “rich site for researchers interested in the affordances of social networks due to its heavy usage patterns and technological capacities that bridge online and offline connections. We believe that Facebook represents an understudied offline to online trend in that it originally primarily served a geographically-bound community (the campus). “ [Read More...]
