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digitisation - News

Last updated 06.09.10

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Nourry regrets misunderstanding over iPad ad

Hachette Livre chief executive Arnaud Nourry has said that he regretted that a misunderstanding had arisen with French booksellers over the publisher's advertising campaign for the launch of the iPad in...

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Booker Prize offers free app

The Man Booker Prize has become the first literary prize to launch its own app, with a mobile phone partnership with T Mobile also being announced. The free app, available from today [26th August], which was...

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Facebook claims rights over 'book' on social...

Facebook has sued a website for teachers called Teachbook, claiming Facebook owns the term 'book' when it comes to naming social networking sites, reports Wired. But the networking site said it would...

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digitisation - In Depth

Last updated 24.07.09

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Digital focus: end of the (printed) textbook?

A much-discussed topic in the publishing industry over recent years has been the possibility of electronic content replacing the traditional textbook within the academic sector. In the last few months the issue has taken a sharper edge. In...

eBabel on and on

Perhaps you were one of the keen early adopters who rushed out to Borders earlier this month to plunk down £399 on iRex's iLiad, the first dedicated e-book reader launched in the UK. If you were able to speed-read through the 50...

Will 2008 be the year of the e-book?

As Amazon.com starts selling e-books in the US, The Bookseller asks six book world professionals, including author Naomi Alderman and Random House's Fionnuala Duggan, to debate the opportunities and threats ahead for the UK market [you can...


digitisation - Blogs

Last updated 16.07.10

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Neill Denny

Road-testing the iPad

The device crystallises neatly the fact that books are constantly competing against other entertainment functions for consumer's leisure time.

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Gary Cummiskey

Towards the digital future

What is needed in South Africa is a greater understanding of ebooks, as well as greater...

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ALAN GILES

New kid on the block

E-books, and all the challenges they pose, are already with us, but there is another digital...

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