A rarely up to date collection of the stories I have had published
Tag: London Book Fair
I have been busy writing some great stories so it’s good to be back on my blog with these two stories that I wrote for the New York based Publishing Perspectives’ spring magazine.
Continue reading “What is the right balance between copyright and access to education?”
‘The “data dilemma” is what to do with the data,” as was noted at #LBF16’s seminar in the final hours of the fair. Image: Mark Piesing
Read my recent hit piece for Publishing Perspectives in full below or by following this link.
You can read some more of my coverage of the LBF for Publishing Perspectives here: Writing The Book On AI:Nick Bostrom
Continue reading “Big Data (and Big Metaphors) at London Book Fair”
‘A Risk That We Will Smash Into the Wall’
Behind on my posts again, read my recent interview with Nick Bostrom at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute for Publishing Perspectives in full below or by following this link.
“Artificial Intelligence could in the end replace most, if not all, of the high-level functions of an editor, but if you get to that point then the whole game changes not just for an industry but for humanity as a whole, because it will have become superintelligent,” says Oxford academic and prophet of an AI apocalypse Nick Bostrom.
“Amazon is no longer as powerful as it seemed” and is suffering a crisis, argues Charles Arthur, ex-tech editor of the Guardian and author of Digital Wars.
Read my hit – and first of four previews – of the Publishing for Digital Minds conference/ London Book Fair in April for Publishing Perspectives. It got a lot of people in publishing talking.
It appeared on Italy’s Giornale della Libreria as well.
If ever there was a place to proclaim the beginning of the end of Amazon, that nemesis of the publishing industry, then it couldn’t get much better than the London Book Fair.
And this is precisely what Charles Arthur, former technology editor at the Guardian and author of Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet, is planning on doing when he presents his speech “Amazon: An Objective Case Study” at the London Book Fair’s Publishing for Digital Minds Conference next Monday.
Continue reading “Amazon is a More “Modest Beast,” says UK Tech Expert”
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Read my ‘hit’ story from last months London Book Fair which I covered for the New York based Publishing Perspectives and which was their headline story of the day.
LONDON: In Los Angeles, every pool attendant wants to write a movie script. In Oxford, every waiter or waitress is trying to write a novel. At the London Book Fair last week, everyone – even established authors – seemed to want to write for video games and other interactive media.
And few of them had any idea of where to start.
Continue reading “How Writers Can Work With Games Developers”
