As a co-founder of Club Penguin, one of the biggest virtual worlds for children, Lane Merrifield has led its management, operations and strategy since it was launched it 2005. Here, he shares his business day with the FT:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d7dfefa0-885d-11df-aade-00144feabdc0.html
Looks like the battle for eReader dominance between Amazon and Barnes & Noble could soon expand beyond the recent spate of price drops and into the courtroom as well, as the USPTO has granted a 2006 Amazon patent on eReaders with secondary LCD displays (like the original Kindle's scroller-navigation panel). One of the claims could cause problems for Barnes & Noble -- it potentially covers any device with both an electronic paper display and a second smaller LCD display next to it: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/amazon-kindle-dual-screen-e-reader-patent-granted-barnes-and-nobl/
The Telegraph's Harry Mount asks: What happened to the page-turner novel? He argues that too much modern fiction is dreary, slow-moving and downright boring and that non-fiction is what is attracting all the good writers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7873584/What-happened-to-the-page-turner-novel.html
Sony, following suit, cuts price of its e-Reader, shaving as much as $50 off. Steve Haber, President of Sony's digital reading business said, "competitive pricing is healthy and we welcome the chance for our products to be touched and compared side-by-side to our competitors":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748704178004575351443009042782.html Google and Penguin: Bookending a Revolution - Jeremy Wagstaff, on the Loose Wire Blog, compares the freedom that Google will give digital readers through the Google Editions bookstore (allowing readers to buy any book they want from any online bookseller they want and read it on any kind of device they want) to the freedom Allen Lane gave our forebears back in 1935: http://www.loosewireblog.com/2010/07/google-and-penguin-bookending-a-revolution.html#tp
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