Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service.

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

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

The convergence culture again reflect on dual-screen device. we are looking forward to a design as perfect as the paper book itself.

A short clip about the advatanges and disadvantage of E-books. but more on the optimistic side. It predicts that the future e-book market will increase.

this video is talking about the histroy of publishing.

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

Digital publishing company Pressmart Media is launching ePortal, a hosted service which includes tools for content and interface management that will allow publications to post and update a variety of content to a domain of their choice.

Content is moved online, whilst advertisers have been slow to follow. Channel 4 decided to put the most channel's content online in full online, including advertising.The broadcaster will share the revenues earned with YouTube.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.

the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.

the traditional advertising is going down while the rise of online advertising is booming.

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

the Mequoda Group is recognized the fastest-growing online publisher communities over the last 12 months.Go to Ragan.com check what is the attractive elements on this website

This is an essay talking about DRM systems, which can give you an overview of the lock up system.

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

The ebook market expand to children's books. It is a great business market.

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.

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?

It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.