by Jo Monroe | Oct 24, 2011 | Digital publishing posts
Last week, while passing through Victoria Station (on my way to see Sharon Gless [yes, my Cagney and Lacey roots are impossible to shake off] in ‘A Round-Heeled Woman’ – fantastic production) I was accosted by the floating glass advert for the new...
by Jo Monroe | Sep 28, 2011 | Digital publishing posts
OK – I know the population of this poor benighted isle always has to wait a while longer for new technology to arrive from the US – we’re kind of used to it now, with the iPad and Kindle. But come on Amazon… How can you announce four new...
by Jo Monroe | Aug 11, 2011 | Digital publishing posts
Amazon.com has just very quietly launched a new section on its US site. Thanks to 40k Books for the Tweet pointing to Brendan Gannon’s blog post making a louder announcement than Jeff Bezos seems to have done. Can it be that the fabulous level playing field been...
by Jo Monroe | Aug 8, 2011 | Digital publishing posts
A couple of weeks ago, through David Gaughran’s blog (via The Word Cloud forum), I discovered the wonderful world of JA Konrath. Over the past few years, Joe Konrath has been rather taken by the possibilities of digital. He now whole-heartedly endorses...
by Jo Monroe | Jun 15, 2010 | Digital publishing posts
Finally got to play with one and they do look gorgeous. I can definitely understand the appeal, but I still don’t really see the point of them. Maybe one day they’ll revolutionise the publishing industry. But would you want to leave one on the beach while...
by Jo Monroe | Feb 11, 2010 | Digital publishing posts
There’s an argument doing the rounds at the moment about what consumers are prepared to pay for e-books. Amazon think $9.99 is about right, publishers $14.99 (all the comments I’ve seen so far are US orientated, hence the $ not £). Round one has gone to...
