BookNet Canada had a season’s celebration party yesterday to celebrate the anniversary of the agency, the birthday of BookNet Sales Data, and to announce three more years of funding from the Federal government. It was a fun party and one of the funniest elements of it, aside from winning a five dollar bet from my coworkers, was a sort of impromptu reunion of ex-Bookshelf staff and one Bookshelf boss: 
Archive for December, 2006
BookNet meets Bookshelf
December 13, 2006Digital Assets a-go-go
December 6, 2006John Battelle of The Search fame has captured an interesting tidbit about the shift in realization in the digital content world that digital assets are valuable:
“and it all points toward a trend that I’ve been itching to think out loud about: Major media companies are realizing that their digital assets are far more valuable than they initially thought, and they are reacting by putting folks in charge of those assets who they believe will protect the company. Not the *interactive* company, mind you, but the company that owns the interactive products. Why? “
