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Kindle’s late coming to town: So, why now?
Pricing and availability of titles are not at all attractive and will not make big in the near future. Nevertheless, with the large customer base of Amazon.co.jp, the landing of Kindle platform in Japan will bring about fundamental change of the market because people get to know that it is not a Galapagos separated from the digital continent. (Hiroki Kamata, Editor) Read More.
(Digital) Self Revealing and Experimenting on the Web.
On the topic (Digital) Self Revealing you can watch a video of a lecture I gave in Frankfurt.
If you are interstd in the topic Experimenting on the Web: Understanding Web user navigation behavior and retaining users, you watch a video of Dr. Nikolaos Korfiatis.
RVZ
Kindle’s late coming to town: So, why now?
Pricing and availability of titles are not at all attractive and will not make big in the near future. Nevertheless, with the large customer base of Amazon.co.jp, the landing of Kindle platform in Japan will bring about fundamental change of the market because people get to know that it is not a Galapagos separated from the digital continent. (Hiroki Kamata, Editor) Read More.
CONTENT BUSINESS
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)
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...]
DIGITAL EUROPE
(Digital) Self Revealing and Experimenting on the Web.
On the topic (Digital) Self Revealing you can watch a video of a lecture I gave in Frankfurt.
If you are interstd in the topic Experimenting on the Web: Understanding Web user navigation behavior and retaining users, you watch a video of Dr. Nikolaos Korfiatis.
RVZ
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?
