To save posting lots of material about ereaders and ebooks here, I’ve started a spin-off blog: Kindle blog.
Kindle blog, JURN’s spin-off blog
03 Sunday Oct 2010
Posted in My general observations
Monthly Archives: October 2010
New Google service
03 Sunday Oct 2010
Posted in JURN's Google watch
Google has just launched their URL shortening service (http://goo.gl/) as a public service.
Open access poised to rival the pay-walls?
03 Sunday Oct 2010
Posted in Economics of Open Access, Spotted in the news
Is open access publishing poised to rival pay-walled services? The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics breaks out the statistics for a long article…
“The ‘dare to compare’ section below asks the evocative question of whether the open access sector is, or soon will be, ready for serious comparison with the subscription sector.”
IDEO : the future of the book video
02 Saturday Oct 2010
Posted in New media journal articles, Spotted in the news
A slick new video from IDEO, presenting three concepts for “the future of the book”…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLSdzGDxqVU&hl=en_GB&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
The cost of coding of this sort of rich content seems likely to be quite expensive, so I suspect an advertising-based model (not seen in the video) will be needed to support it?