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Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.

On October 7 in a New York courtroom he will preside over a "fairness hearing" for a deal between Google and US publishers and authors to put millions of books online.

The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.

Thanks Sam Oazy for sending these interesting income models for academic publishing.

Electronic is going to be the center of the universe, so HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide decided to publish old books into digital form.

The challenge for media companies is not to figure out what to do with their content - content in and of itself doesn't matter.

"E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape."

most publishers are looking at E-readers as simply a fourth platform for delivering content-besides print, Web and mobile.

Brisbane, Short stories going digital

e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?

Rebecca Blood and John Quiggin readings

"We wanted to ask a different question," said Clifford Nass, a Stanford University cognitive scientist. "What happens to people who multitasking all the time?" In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nass and Stanford psychologists Anthony Wagner and Eyal Ophir surveyed 262 students on their media consumption habits. The 19 students who multitasked the most and 22 who multitasked least then took two computer-based tests, each completed while concentrating only on the task at hand.

Interesting that. And scary. Hail the era of scatterbrains. I'm definetely one of them.

Premature results for the weekend's state elections published on social networking site Twitter have raised fears about how much influence such updates could have on German voters. Anyone found guilty of leaking the exit polls could face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.

Digital publishing for local culture or plain racism?

US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.

The publisher of America's most-famous blog lashes out at the poll and political horse race-driven mainstream media, saying it'll be up to the bloggers to make coverage of the next presidential election interesting. Those same bloggers, she argues, could also spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.

This is a llst of the most pirated ebooks from file sharing site, BitTorrent. Given nearly all of them are software guides or porn, the article says the publishing industry doesn't have much to worry about in terms of lost revenue - although the Twilight series is number seven.

Twitter users can already send their tweets to Facebook. Now Facebook users can do the reverse with an app called SocialToo.

A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.

Collaborative Encyplopedia Wikipedia is test-driving a new editing scheme to enahnce its credibility, making it subject to screeing and altering before it is published online. Doesn't this not defeat the purpose of it in the first place?