The keynote, blog link so far

So little time, so much to do. Several interesting sessions today so blogging is brief. Apparently the keynote can be summarised-

“group action just got easier” = 5-word summary of his book

More on blog for The Shifted Librarian

Just heard Karen Blakeman on free resources. She asked how many of the audience were on Twitter. Not many. Apparently people in the paid for conference are more likely to Twitter. What else is happening I wonder?

Online Information, no FT - ePUB ok

At Online Information it appears to be true that there is no stand for the Financial Times. Not sure what to make of this.

Spoke to Bob Kasher, Director of Sales for the MPS Global Reader. His information is that the Stanza software for the iPhone has been downloaded half a million times and 20,000 books are downloaded each day. MPS now supoport the ePUB format and are switching all other content for e-books. I suggested this may change the idea of what a book is. How long a text is suitable for a mobile phone? He pointed out that the number 11 text on the Stanza numbers is War and Peace. Maybe people read a section at a time on route to actual paper.

Online Information

I will be at Olympia this week. Publishing panel Thursday lunchtime.

No sign of Adobe. They are mostly into video now and the content at this show is still pretty much text. See Independent story.

Can't find the reference at the moment but I think the distinction in Adobe phases could be called Adobe Classic and Adobe (FLSH) . This is from a source I came across last week but now I am about to travel so will find the link later.