May 9, 2012
When you run some of the biggest and best presses in town, it’s hard to imagine them ever going silent. Brian Kibby of McGraw-Hill, well known textbook publisher, would be happy to shut them down tomorrow if the need arose. He doesn’t want to pay the costs of printing, paper, and distribution. He just wants to push the ebook industry into the future.
Kibby has worked in textbooks for most of his career. As the group president, he has seen the movement from “dead tree...
April 20, 2012
Yesterday at New York Tech Day we met with quite a few great companies including Digital Ocean. These guys are pretty established in the cloud space. They offer OS agnostic cloud servers and are giving away some service space for free to NYTD participants and their minimum package is $5 a month. Pretty basic stuff.
But what they wouldn’t do for a TC mention! One of their employees, Mitch, explained that he was the in-office push-up...
March 29, 2012
March 5, 2012
I had the distinct pleasure of bringing Mike Doughty, songwriter and author, into the TCTV studio to talk about his new book,...