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In digital media, on the web, the news package is now a function of software - which is why Google is innovating precisely where publishers are not.

Sony ismaking a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions. This is really good news for self-publishing avoiding the traffic that Amazon does.

"Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options"

Children's Publishing Digital Age. Where we are heading? Future

European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests that the industry needs to look at themselves.

With the publishing industry in freefall, what is going to happen to science fiction books? I asked Tor Books senior editor and manager of SF and fantasy Patrick Nielsen Hayden. He thinks the changes coming will be slow but weird.

In this article the Harvard Press acknowledges the changing nature of publishing, in regard to different audiences and the pace of technological development, revealing how they will release articles, journals and magazines in different formats, with a growing focus on digital mediums.

Saatchi and Saatchi suggest that the changes brought about by technology and the 'new' business model is merely structured to serve "the twin gods of the publishing world", namely advertisers and consumers, and as a result traditional 'media' are going to lose out.

Abstract This paper argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society. It defines the concept of e-book and describes some aspects of e-book technology. By focusing on book production processes, the paper examines what probable consequences the development of e-books and a global network economy will have for publishers and book industries. E-books, along with other electronic formats, will trigger major changes as the digital products and distribution channels will force the logic of the network economy on the book publishing industry.

Lulu is a print on demand, self-publish book, ebook portal that makes possible for everyone to become a "Published author"

Editors Only is a blog newsletter for publication editors. Topics include: editing, writing, magazine design, editorial management, online publishing, copyright, grammar, and readership surveys.

Digital authors don't have to wait for the publishing industry anymore.

AOP survey shows about 70% of digital publishers in the newspaper, magazine and TV industries will charge for content online, it also illustrates that more than half of media firms use Twitter to publish content

A new attempt to speed up book publishing.

"An Apple, Inc. patent application for new forms of multi-touch and secret meetings with publishers are fueling speculation about an Apple tablet computer to "redefine print." An analyst said a touchscreen Apple tablet could be a "killer application" for reading. The emphasis for an Apple tablet could be on interactive magazines and textbooks."

Online publishing infringement is a challenge to publishers. So the online publishing regulation should cover more doctrines to adept to the digtial environment.

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Mike Elgan writes about ebooks and how publishers should be embracing them and not trying to block them. He promotes the idea of an all inclusive package of ebook, hardcover and audio book.

Mike Elgan writes about ebooks and how publishers should be embracing them and not trying to block them. He promotes the idea of an all inclusive package of ebook, hardcover and audio book

While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.

Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...