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COVER STORY: Expert Opinion
Robots
Tend Library Stacks
>>>EXTRA!!! eBookWeb
Nominated For Web Award
 Lori
Barber
has just joined Data
Conversion Laboratory as Business Development Manager in
the STM Division.
She will be working with publishers of scholarly journals, books, and
electronic products in the scientific, technical, and medical world. Previously,
she was a Client Development Manager at
ScholarOne, where she sold Web-based applications in the STM market."Being with DCL is exciting,"
she says, "because structured documents are the core of
any digital workflow. Traditional print workflows are batch processes, but
users of books and journals are demanding faster and article-based rather
than issue-based publication. By structuring documents upstream in the
workflow, publishers get the flexibility to meet these demands."
Lori also has an interesting claim to fame: She may be the world's only XML professional who owns a ferret called George ;-)
OTHER NEWS: Adobe
Add Lending Features To PDF Delivery It's a powerful solution to concerns about digital rights management. For example, this system could be used by e-book self-publishers. They could allow potential buyers to download the e-book title and view it for a set number of days (or even hours). Readers then either buy a copy or the e-book will self-destruct - much like the Mission Impossible tapes!
PDAs
Set To Become Key Classroom IT Tool Calculators for science and math have been the traditional staple for students, with shared use of PCs. Using PDAs would allow them to download new applications designed for other types of classes.
One Internet entrepreneur and
publisher making big use of Instant Messaging is Marlon
Sanders, of Marketing
That Roars. His various websites let customers talk live
to his sales staff to discuss their product needs. "It
really is a killer app when it comes to closing sales,"
says Sanders.
The latest figures from publishers suggest that Take #2 of the E-Book Revolution is about to kick in with a vengeance. McGraw-Hill reports that its e-book sales are up 55 percent on this time last year. PerfectBound sold more e-books in the first five months of 2002 than in all of 2001. And Simon & Schuster saw double-digit growth in e-book sales from the first quarter 2001 to the first quarter 2002. Plus more than 5 million copies of Microsoft Reader have been distributed for use on the desktop, notebook, and Pocket PC. There have been quite a number of skeptical articles about the market for e-books in the press lately. But publishers' figures and anecdotal reports present a good deal of cause for optimism. And the fact is people love e-books. Many self-publishers have known this for years and have been quietly raking in sizeable profits from e-books since the mid-1990s. Corey Rudl's Car Secrets Revealed, for example, is still the number one selling car book/package on the Web. He began selling it back in 1994 and within 9 months had made $140,000 profit, which led to him becoming a multi-millionaire. Not bad for a lone e-book entrepreneur.
"These nanoscale memory arrays will be capable of storing data at a density approaching molecular," said Rolltronics CEO Michael Sauvante. "For example, a PC Card module could hold up to 64GB (billion bytes) of data. This is 100 times more data storage than PC Cards based on current flash memory technology." With a 64 GB PC Card, costing a few hundred dollars, you could carry all of the following:
Sauvante added: "Rolltronics is bringing affordable massive data storage to the masses through next-generation nanoscale molecular electronic memory arrays." Investors are watching developments closely.
ASIDES
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Ringing...
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