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There Is No Such Thing As “Metadata”
Brian O’Leary and BISG are about to release their study on metadata in the book supply chain. I’ve been lucky enough to get a sneak peek and it’s great. Brian’s traced the progress of metadata from...
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A matter of scale
I keep citing this massive growth that Books in Print has experienced over the last 14 years. As insane as that is, it’s worth noting also that there are many, many books which never get listed in...
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The Space Between Things
I guess it was around 1999 or 2000 when I received a book from a friend on the art of Chinese calligraphy. I took a single art class in college (it was actually Aesthetics), and majored in English...
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Cars, Threads, and Deleuze
It has been a week. A week since I was bowled over by the thought of ebooks embedded in DNA. I meant to blog more about that, but life got in the way immediately after I’d posted that little bit. I had...
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Some History: EDI and the Book Industry
EDI is an acronym for “electronic data interchange”. The book industry has been steadily going digital since the 1960s, when WH Smith computerized its warehouses and needed identifiers and metadata...
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Shipping
Ever accidentally order something from China? Ebay has had East Asian merchants offering free shipping for quite some time, and if you’re not careful, you can wind up buying something from one of them...
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A Great Conversation
Brian O’Leary, Peter Turner and I had a great talk on Brian’s blog post here.
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At Last, A Settlement That Understands Search
I was in Frankfurt when the settlement between AAP and Google occurred. It seemed there was, essentially, a massive shrug. “They had this lawsuit hanging around for years, and basically the publishers...
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The Things We Lose
In a conversation with Porter Anderson over the weekend, Porter asked me about one of the risks of digitization – loss. And I responded that, as with any disruption, there will be loss. Some work does...
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Marking Up Emotions
W3C has just released EmotionML – a markup language expressing emotions. From their recommendation: Human emotions are increasingly understood to be a crucial aspect in human-machine interactive...
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