Though at the time this didn’t seem one of the more interesting conferences, I attended, in retrospect it raises a couple of interesting points. The suggestion that ebooks might hit 50% of total sales by 2016 now looks perhaps a little unlikely (though the same suggestion had been made by Victoria Barnsley at Frankfurt the…
Month: May 2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad
I’m including this review partly out of a desire for completism, but partly because I wonder whether a publisher would consider developing such an app for a novel now, even for an experimental yet popular novel like this one. Evan Schnittmann’s claim a few months earlier that the enhanced ebook was dead has mostly come…
The future’s bright, the future’s mobile (2011 London Book Fair Digital Conference part II)
Looking back on this report from the afternoon sessions of the 2011 London Book Fair digital conference, what strikes me is that though mobile has proved as important as we expected, nobody’s really taken advantage of the fact that the mobile phone companies, like Apple and Amazon, already have customer credit card details, and so…
The pressfuturist manifesto 