Andrew Savikas
Andrew Savikas is the CEO of Safari Books Online. Previously he was VP of Digital Initiatives at O'Reilly Media and the program chair for O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference.
Andrew holds a B.S. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston. He is a frequent speaker at publishing and content management conferences, and is also the author of "Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming your Text".
NaNoWriMo Now Underway
One of my favorite keynotes from TOC 2009 was National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) founder Chris Baty. It's November, which means the annual event is now underway. Check out the website for ways to support and participate….
In-depth insight from Tim O'Reilly on lessons learned from Safari Books Online
"As I outlined above, Safari adopted a "cloud library" model rather than downloadable ebooks as its fundamental design metaphor. I thought it might be worthwhile to understand how we arrived at that decision, as well as some of the other lessons we've learned over what is now 22 years of ebook publishing experience. (O'Reilly published its first ebook, Unix in…
O'Reilly Ebooks Now in Aldiko Online Catalog for Android
The iPhone gets a lot of the attention when it comes to smartphones, but signs point to Android playing a huge role in the growing smartphone market, with 20+ new devices by the end of this year worldwide (like the Motorola Droid). O'Reilly readers with an Android device can now browse and buy via the online catalog in the…
Books overtake games in app store (1 in 5 new Oct. apps was a book) (via @gigaom)
“Book-related apps saw an upsurge in launches in September, according to a survey conducted by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile application analytics company. So much so, that book-related applications overtook games in the App Store as a percentage of all released apps. The trend isn’t an aberration. In October, one out of every five new applications launching on the iPhone was…
The Meaning of Droid | Monday Note
Nice competitive analysis of next moves for big mobile players (via @jafurtado)”One year later, we have a new situation, a real contender for the lead position in the exploding smartphone market. How will Android impact the rest of the industry: Motorola, Garmin, TomTom, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, RIM and, of course, the iPhone’s meteoric rise?”http://www.mondaynote.com/2009/11/01/the-meaning-of-droid/ Posted via email from Andrew’s posterous…
The Meaning of Droid | Monday Note
Nice competitive analysis of next moves for big mobile players (via @jafurtado)”One year later, we have a new situation, a real contender for the lead position in the exploding smartphone market. How will Android impact the rest of the industry: Motorola, Garmin, TomTom, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, RIM and, of course, the iPhone’s meteoric rise?”http://www.mondaynote.com/2009/11/01/the-meaning-of-droid/ Posted via email from Andrew’s posterous…
Android's Impact on eBooks, Reading « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books
The big Android question is – Is Android going to provide a fourth big channel for ebooks? Well, Android might be Very Important for eReading The first reason is that Mobile Devices and Mobile Internet Usage are exploding and are going to dwarf PCs (in some ways, they already have). via ireaderreview.com Posted via web from Andrew’s posterous…
Lessons from Digital Disruption in the Music Business
Last week's On The Media (mp3 download here) devoted the full program to challenges and changes during the past decade or so in the music business — from the unanswered legal questions about sampling (check out Girl Talk for the genre taken to the extreme) to the shifting economics of concert tickets and promotion to the changing role of…
Hard Numbers Behind the Current and Coming Mobile Future
Every year at Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker does a fantastic whirlwind tour of economic and technology trends she’s watching, and in addition to a terrifying look at the US Income Statement, her presentation this year spent a lot of time looking at mobile trends. Mobile is the next “computer cycle” (think Mainframe, Mini, PC, Internet), and the numbers are just staggering.
BookServer: A Web of Books
I'm thrilled to be at the Internet Archive's "Making Books Apparent" event today in San Francisco, where they're debuting the new BookServer architecture. As the audience for digital books grows, we can evolve from an environment of single devices connected to single sources into a distributed system where readers can find books from sources across the Web to read on…