The social network: technology and bookselling
From social media ‘evangelists’ to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot—but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey. Using social media to drive community engagement with...
Lonely Planet trials downloadable chapters
Lonely planet has launched a trial of ‘Pick and Mix', a new product that enables travellers to purchase individual chapters from Lonely Planet guidebooks. More than 350 chapters from 35...
Thorpe-Bowker launches ‘Innovation+Technology’ magazine
Thorpe-Bowker has launched another supplement to Bookseller+Publisher magazine with the first issue of Innovation+Technology (‘I+T'), which is being distributed with the April/May issue of Bookseller+Publisher. ‘There is scarcely a part...
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is coming to the Antipodes–eventually
Further to last week's story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft's Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details on how Live Search Books...
Global Books in Print named as database for Microsoft book search project
Bowker's Global Books in Print (GBiP) bibliographic database has been selected by Microsoft as the preferred data source for the software giant's Live Search Books service.Live Search Books is Microsoft's...
Vista/Ingenta merger
Vista International and Ingenta, two of the largest international publishing software companies, have announced that they will merge to create Publishing Technologies PLC.The new company will offer ‘a wide range...
New report on industry innovation
BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine has commenced work on a special report into technology and innovation in the book industry, to be published in March 2007.The report will focus on how technology can...