Comments on ‘Penguin goes electronic’
The News Review:
- Comments on ‘Penguin goes electronic’
- Penguin goes electronic
- Nokia launches new phone with electronic wallet
- Music festivals – The big ones
- Beyond the Pale – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Comments on ‘Penguin goes electronic’
Register – Apr 15, 2008
(Don’t even get me started on the music DRM scene – How can *one* company have *two* incompatible systems and still ask to be taken seriously? Fortunately no-one bought the "Zune". 
how much? By davefb Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 10:18 GMTso basically for the price of the US book (18$ in amazon US ) we can get a digital ‘copy’ that we can’t lend to people doesn’t look great on a shelf etc. wake me up when we have a more realistic price. e-Books By Jamie Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 10:29 GMT… 8g of carbon while reading the same document on a device reduces that to. So electronic books should be more environmentally sound"Is the amount of carbon released in manufacturing and the generation of electricity required to power devices that one might use to read an electronic book included in the. 25g value?> the Moog synth didn’t replace the orchestra By JimC Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 11:10 GMTTo a considerable extent outside the classical music arena it did. You here vast amounts of partially synthesised or sampled music on the television every day for instance. In no way has the technology a minor role. cheaper ebooks By Douglas McKenzie Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 11:14 GMTBAEN books in the US sell their monthly science fiction books (all of them) for $20.
Penguin goes electronic
Register – Apr 15, 2008
The launch range of e-books will include Penguin’s back catalogue of 5000 titles which is already being digitised. The e-book versions will cost the same as their dead-tree equivalents. The idea of electronic books has been around for decades but recent innovations in screen technology have removed one of the most significant barriers to adoption – the quality of the reading experience. These days the potential market is split between those who believe a book is an object that must be revered and treasured and those who will happily turn down the corner of the page as they chuck a paperback into their satchel: e-books are never going to appeal to the former group but are finding a niche within the latter. E-book readers might still only be black and white but they should also be green: iRex maker of the… Penguin isn’t saying what formats the e-books will be available in or if they’ll be using any copy-protection technology to stop people emailing them around the place but books are even more difficult to protect than music and if anything more prone to piracy. Digital director Genevieve Shore said: “We are very excited by the opportunities our digital publishing programme is presenting. The simultaneous publication of our physical and e-editions is an important step”. Having the back catalogue available in electronic form makes sense but the fact that Penguin plans to charge the same amount for both paper and electronic versions seems to indicate a lack of understanding or confidence in the electronic distribution business model.
Nokia launches new phone with electronic wallet
Economic Times – Apr 15, 2008
NFC allows users to sharecontent by connecting two phones which can receive audio files and otherdownloads from service providers simultaneously. The phone can also be used forpayments. The 6212 Classic which includes a camera and a music player isexpected to launch in the third quarter for about 200 euros ($316) beforesubsidies and taxes Nokia said. getElementById(”storydiv”). substring(0storycontent.
Music festivals – The big ones
Youngstown Vindicator – Apr 15, 2008
My Morning Jacket Fatboy Slim. Who it?s for: Fans of indie rock electronic and British music. megafests but with Waters and Johnson headlining it?s trying to sell tickets too. Its penchant for reunion gigs (Kraftwerk the Verve) also suits nostalgic fans.
Beyond the Pale – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s Only Newspaper
TheStranger.com – Apr 15, 2008
” Asharp and eloquent critic Frere-Jones is not above tackling suchdaunting topics as race even at the risk of getting things wrong. Frere-Jones argued essentially that indie rock has become toowhite—meaning too much from the head not enough in thehips—that it lost its sense of rhythm its will to entertain anaudience. That it’s become stiff rather than funky. He cast the ArcadeFire’s studied operatics against Mick Jagger’s “bewitching flexion ofknees and elbows… And both bands are clever about their borrowing. Hot Chip have madea laughing sport of their whiteness and their omnivorous musicalappropriation from the get-go. Early single “Playboy” found the groupriding a maudlin electro R&B beat in their pimped-out Peugeot (aquintessentially European and therefore “white” car) spinning “20inch rims with the chrome” while “blazin’ out Yo La Tengo. ” “Down withPrince” examines their troubled relationship with the titular musicalmiscegenator. Frere-Jones notes MTV’s initial reluctance to air Michael Jacksonwhile playing videos “by the equally gifted white soul act Hall &Oates” to illustrate how often the most successful American purveyorsof “black music” were white. Rodgers who initially wanted to make rock music was corralled by hisrecord label into producing R&B and then disco.
Written by admin on April 15th, 2008 with
no comments.
Read more articles on News.