A historical collection of our writing.
I was away last week and so am late to the party when it comes to commenting on the fight between Amazon and book publishers. Here are a couple of observations. First, I was surprised it took so long for this fight to start. It is a great example of what I call “fighting over […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Each has more than 100 Million credit cards on file to enable 1-click purchases of content, apps, and virtual goods. When I compare doing anything involving payment on other platforms the experience is cumbersome to the point of being useless. My 10-year old son had no trouble hijacking my Kindle, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday’s “reveal” of the iPad was predictably anti-climactic. With the hype that had built up, anything short of a mind-reading, teleporting device had to be a bit of a letdown. But we are now likely to enter the phase of underestimating the iPad. People are already obsessing about such flaws as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Heading to the Munich airport after 2 days at DLD – a thoroughly enjoyable and productive conference. Here is my report from last year: http://continuations.com/post/73536016/dld – I was happy to see that the biggest nuisance from last year had been addressed: there was now a wall between the lobby […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
With family (parents) in Germany, two investments in London, and conferences (eg DLD) and vacations, I wind up flying to Europe at least half a dozen times a year. Here is the system I have come up with for minimizing jet lag (without the help of pharma!): 1. Take a late flight – ideally 7pm […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday brought two announcements and one rumor that all relate to the pricing of digital content: the New York Times announced that it plans to add a paywall in 2011, Amazon announced that it will offer authors a 70% royalty rate, and book publishers are apparently trying to convince Apple to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
