Are We Enabling Scott Walker? Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more. Vatican Library To Digitalize Its 82,000-Manuscript Collection For Online Viewing. The 2002 Advertisement Which Warned Against Invading Iraq. Your Facebook ‘Likes’ Reveal Far More Than You Realize. North Korean Claims To Have Discovered Ancient Unicorn Habitat. 8 New Google+ Changes and How They Impact Your Business. Pushing the Business of Books into the Limelight. The writing industry has always attracted an audience, people keen to understand writing through discussion and to store up information for a potential career, traditionally found at lectures by agents and on residential courses.
The digital shift, however, seems to have created a similar fringe for the business of publishing. At the Hay Literary Festival last month hundreds of festival goers were prepared to spend hard cash and pass their spare time crowded into a cold tent just to understand exactly what is going on in publishing. But why the interest? John B Thompson believes it is because, ‘up until recently, the book business model had been the same for centuries; there was little for academics to study’. Writers wrote manuscripts, agents found a publisher, and the publisher produced and sold the books. Thompson outlined the three big steps that he believes have led publishing to the here and now.
Commoditisation dovetailed with the rise of the literary agent. Facebook Personal ID Cards. How Will Digital Change Small Business in 2012? Over the course of 2011, we witnessed social media and location-based services really take off for small businesses — the mom and pop shops of the world continued to get more digital and more mobile.
As this year wraps up, we look back at the technological advancements that small businesses have benefited from and predict how those technologies will affect entrepreneurs in 2012. We spoke with a number of small businesses to get their thoughts on how the market will continue to adapt to changing technologies as we move into the new year. Based on those discussions, here are our seven small business predictions for 2012. Read on and let us know what you’d add to the list in the comments below. 1. Many of the small business owners we spoke with pinpointed 2012 as the year of big data.
"What will really matter for SMBs in 2012 is the fact they can, for the first time, mine their own business like the big guys, and do so quickly and cheaply," Delacour syas. Jeff Judge, CEO of Signal, agrees. Interactive Textbook Maker Braces for Apple Announcement. Sitting at the front of the class and attentively listening to a professor’s lecture won’t be enough for college students aiming to impress their professors once the new BioBook rolls out. With BioBook, an interactive educational tool for tablets, professors can monitor student progress — from how they’re keeping up to the rest of the class to what page they’re at in the text book.
Now the makers of the BioBook are waiting with bated breath to find out what Apple is planning to announce this Thursday — and whether the two companies are about to become competitors. BioBook is the creation of two Wake Forest University professors: Jed Macosko, an assistant professor of physics and Dan Johnson, a senior lecturer in biology.
They hope the interactive learning tool will spark the interest of non-biology majors early in their college careers. Macosko says this precarious time is when students drop out or lose interest in learning. What do you think about BioBook?