I was invited by Gerd Leonhard whom I’d spoken with at a conference in Cyprus last year to attend a talk that was hosted by media law firm Olswang on the future of the book publishing industry. I made some notes from the first couple of talks which I have scanned in below:
Gerd Leonhard
Dominic Pride
A number of things happened over the past few weeks that got me thinking about the media business. The world’s greatest living Australian Rupert Murdoch has been talking about how content is king and based new business strategies around this, in particular going all out for paywalls and charging for mobile content. Mr Murdoch neatly […]
I posted to the Left Foot Forward blog earlier about the reaction of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association to the BBC expanding its portfolio of mobile applications. In the post I collated a number of reasons why I felt that the argument was moot:
The newspaper industry like its peers in other parts of the media industry […]
On Friday TechCrunch intern Daniel Brusilovsky was let go from the blog amid allegations of payola. We don’t know the full story on it as we haven’t heard the story from all sides. When I was a PR person during the dot.com boom in the UK, I had reputable experienced journalists make demands on me […]
The SyFy channel in the UK has been doing reruns of a little-known TV series from Canada called ReGenesis. The series follows the trial and tribulations of of a group of scientists who operate at the cutting edge of bioscience solving problems across North America.
The series had all the usual stuff: podcasts around the soundtrack […]
I tried the Google Music service designed especially for consumers in the Chinese market.
The service is impressive in terms of the size of its catalogue and ease-of-use. The music is imported into your computer as MP3 files and doesn’t have any DRM on it.
I do wonder what the click through rates are on the adverts […]
I am a big fan of cyber-punk pioneer William Gibson. His current work in progress is called Zero History. It is being followed avidly by fans over at the ZeroHistory blog, who help the author out with research for the book. In return, they try and divine the plot based on the creative bread crumbs […]
I had blogged about the Kindle’s Christmas earlier so a posting by Nick Farrell over at The Inquirer caught my eye. The post aggregated some interesting data via CNet about the love that Kindle users have for free content. Farrell considers that this is because the costs of books are kept artificially high by Amazon […]
I met with a number of people and observed a number of things during the Christmas break. On their own not enough for a blog post about them, but I thought there maybe something in putting them all together.
According to an entrepreneur I met even targeted high circulation print coverage delivered little traffic to a […]
The multimedia leviathan that is X Factor has been trumped in the charts by Killing in the name by Rage Against The Machine.
Whilst Sony Music benefits from the double present it has received this Christmas, the music industry must have some food for thought given the depth of deep-seated opposition to the cynical conveyor-belt pop […]
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