October 27, 2006
Revisiting Amazon aStore
I noticed recently some sales from my Andre Dubus Amazon aStore, so I spent some time today updating it and adding a couple of new features. Check it out, and shop early and often!
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:38 AM
October 24, 2006
Adobe Digital Editions
Adobe announced Digital Editions today (press release here). Digital Editions is billed as a rich internet application for digital publishing, enabling users to acquire, read, and manage a variety of digital content. There is an obvious match here for eBooks, but the platform also has significance for digital editions of magazines, for example, and other content that would benefit from digital rights management (DRM) support.
Ryan Stewart already has a close look at ZDNet, and considers it "extremely compelling for both content providers and users on a number of fronts." Alan Safford has some more thoughts at PC World. David Utter of Webpronews.com discusses some of the hosting and distribution issues, and highlights that Digital Editions is the first Adobe product based on Flex 2 (a point Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch also mentioned this morning).
UPDATE: Publishers Weekly has more, focusing on the reader interface.
I saw it today, and it looked good. It is a Beta, but the interface is attractive and the performance is terrific. I didn't dig in too much, but what I saw was a set of books with an attractive point-and-click navigation and very quick retrieval and display of the titles in Acrobat and in XHTML. You can download it here. I did, and it installs very quickly and easily.
FURTHER UPDATE: Don Fluckinger has a great overview at PDFZone.com.
AND YET ONE MORE: Bill Rosenblatt has some thoughts on the DRM implications of the new offering.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 1:40 PM | Comments (1)
Blogging Has Been Light
I have been heads down with some project work and writing, so blogging has been light. I am at Adobe Max for a couple of days, and just saw a very cool demo of more integrated Web publishing beginning in Photoshop and extending through Fireworks and Dreamweaver. It was a "future," but I will find out more in a press briefing later today with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch.
UPDATE: There is a beta program for Fireworks 9 if you are interested in applying.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:40 PM
October 12, 2006
Simon & Schuster’s eBook Blog
TeleRead highlighted a new eBook-related blog at Simon & Schuster.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:58 PM
October 6, 2006
RFP: Document Management
Jim Rapoza of eWeek Labs offers a sample RFP for Document Management.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 6:05 PM
October 3, 2006
Global Content Management Systems
Bob Doyle is at it again, launching a new Web-based aggregator for news and information about content management and globalization. The mission of Global Content Management Systems "is to give you the resources you need to choose a globalization management system for your organization. CMS Global is the tenth in a network of content-management related sites and mailing lists managed by Bob Doyle of CMS Review." This is especially timely, as the fall 2006 CM Pros Summit will focus on content globalization.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 1:41 PM
CrossRef Indicators
I remember when I first heard about Digital Object Identifiers DOIs and thinking, "great idea... needs critical mass." Well, according to the latest CrossRef Indicators, they have long since passed critical mass.
CROSSREF INDICATORS (September 29, 2006)
Total no. participating publishers & societies 1,683
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,107
No. journals covered 15,215
No. DOIs registered to date 22,584,497
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 294,257
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 4,503,094
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 11,007,980
The 11 million plus DOI resolutions is staggering really. That is 11 million clicks on specialized, authoritative content in one month.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 12:57 PM
October 2, 2006
There's Fraud in Online Advertising?
Over at MarketingProfs, John Jantsch wonders if the click fraud problem is overhyped. Especially since the current issue of Business "Week screams across its cover" Click Fraud - The Dark Side of Online Advertising....
I enjoy this kind of perspective--Jantsch discusses the "analog" analogue to pay-per-click and wisely suggests people not overreact. At the same time, I think the democratization of PPC advertising puts more people at risk than, say, the phantom billboard example Jantsch suggests. Hence the need for the key parties to be vigilant, and also provide open, accountable, and measurable ways for buyers to know that their investment is being well spent.
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