I’ve just been reading Clay Shirky’s recent post on the Amazon – Hachette feud, Amazon, Publishers, and Readers, in which he does a good job…
Edtech idea sources
Here are some further sources for innovation ideas that might be helpful. The first is the TWitter #edtech hashtag. #edtech Tweets
Innovation in edtech
This is a presentation I’ve played with to show students on Bangor’s PGCert in Higher Education induction course. I’ve done tried all the ideas listed,…
Geographic Space of Books in Wales
Books are like water, have always followed the path of least resistance through the geographic landscape, as illustrated in this map of the bookstores of…
eBook Ecosystems
Joseph Esposito recent article “An Industry Pining for Bookstores” makes a strong argument for the value which bookstores have in the current book industry and…
A bookstore by its cover
Although you can’t (shouldn’t?) judge a book by its title, we do. They are part of what Gerard Genette referred to as “paratext”, the “threshold…
A Bookselling Timeline
The retail book business in the United States may have begun with John Dunton’s visit in 1685-86 where he is said to have sold a…
Why would Amazon go physical?
Digital Book World reports that, according to research by the Codex group, about one-sixth of new books are now discovered on-line, often through on-line retailers,…
Book Signal and Publishing Noise
Reading Ted Striphas’ blog entry from last February, The Shannon and Weaver Model brings to mind another one of Shannon’s contributions to information theory, and…
Discovery, trust and bookstores
I was reading Peter Turner’s blog post Nobody Knows Anything—But Let’s Not Let That Stop Us this morning, in which he reviews some of his…