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Posted in Publishing, News on November 23rd, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Everyone at Amazon’s Kindle press conference (which I liveblogged earlier today) received one of the electronic book readers. I played around with mine while I was waiting to interview Jeff Bezos. My initial impressions (…)
(…) The fact that it has a functioning Web browser, though, means that you can follow links in the feeds you subscribe to. More importantly, it opens up the world of linking to book authors. Now books can have links, and not just for citations. Authors who take advantage of the electronic book format will start to include hyperlinks for curious readers to follow, and books could become more tightly interwoven with the culture of the Web in general. Reading a book will no longer need to end with the final chapter. Rather, it could literally open up a whole world of information on the Web, just as blog posts or online news article do today.
Newspaper Ads Tank Again, Industry Shrinking Fast
Newspaper ads got crushed again in Q3: Down 7.4% year over year. Online revenue is growing, but isn’t offsetting the declines in print revenue. Alan Mutter, the dean of newspaper analysis, says the quarterly decline doesn’t even begin to reveal the depths of the industry’s problems. On an inflation adjusted basis, Mutter says, the industry has now shrunk to the same size as it was in the early 90s.
An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled “Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications.
A number of blogs picked it up and speculated that Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet content. And print ads included in the magazine would be customized, too.
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