Harper Collins and Random House have made their own search inside widgets. Pretty cool little things that let you read the inside of the book ala Amazon. So now the problem is obvious. Publishers blow their brains out on developing this stuff but Amazon and Google offer much more content from a single source. Anyway, I think I prefer the random house widget over the harper collins but it will come down to content.

Help protect our water supply!

GCL member Mark Goldberg and James Gordon are the signators on an official
application made last week to the Environmental Commissioner Of Ontario
to object to the renewal of Nestle's water bottling license.

THEY NEED OUR HELP to help convince the province to deny this renewal.

At the Nestle bottling plant in Aberfoyle, they are basically taking our
water for free.

They can now draw 3.6 million litres per day from the same aquifer as
the City of Guelph and they pay nothing for it! water! (That is about 7
percent of our city's daily intake) This is the commercialization of a
public resource. The world’s largest food and beverage corporation is
bottling our water and selling it back to us for more than the price of
gasoline! Their permit is up for renewal in June. When they apply for a
renewal, their application will be posted on the Ministry of the
Environment’s Electronic Bulletin Board and people will be asked to
comment during the following 30 day period. They are hoping to organize
a campaign to get thousands of people to say they are opposed to the
renewal, and are asking us to help them.

There is an organizational meeting scheduled for:

7 pm on Tuesday February 13th in the Canada Room, ground Floor, the
Co-operators Building on Macdonnell Street.

Review the text of the application

Better late then never:

So I have been a bit late on the trends that are happening in the publishing world but I pledge to make amends:
Here is a link to the penguin wiki novel, a novel idea or a marketing ploy? You decide, and have some fun while deciding. Mitch Joel has some reservations about it. You also might like this idea for receiving your novel reading, I am getting Cory Doctorow's novel delivered every second day.

Digital Times:

Thought I should post something about the Conference that we have been putting together at BookNet Canada. Can check it out Here

This has been a fascinating project for me to sink my teeth into. I have learned quickly that the publishing landscape has changed drastically and that convergence is king. Convergence in devices and other technologies. Will post more later.