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Amazon responds to e-book spam. First Amazon became a publisher, and now an editor.  Would have been better in the other order.

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

E-books competing with paperbacks.

Self-published authors and publishing houses are learning to work together.

Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.

Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.

If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers

Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.

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It's been six years since Amazon acquired CreateSpace, an on-demand publishing platform, and almost four years since they announced the free online setup for self-publishing. While four years seems like a long time in our fast-paced world, self-publishing still hasn't reached the mass audience. Even the biggest social media gurus still take the traditional route, only choosing to self-publish when they've been rejected by mainstream publishing houses.

Publishing executives hold 11th-our meetings about new business model for books" />

Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.

This is an article that gives some insight on why e-books are gaining popularity and why we should be reading more e-publications.

Simon & Schuster plans to postpone the release of 35 e-book titles by four months. This is in part attributed to the sales of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" in which the publisher noticed that e-book sales were cannibalizing hardcover sales.

Jason Epstein, a major figure in publishing, looks back to look forward to the future of publishing.

Publishers need to recognize that readers are shifting to ereading, and for this group if it's not in e-book format it doesn't exist.

Renewed interest in creating beautiful books as a response to ereaders.

Something pretty sad about this trend.  The comments section make for an interesting read - a lot energy released here.

Apple wanted publishers to discount best sellers, so its $12.99-to-$14.99 range is merely a ceiling, according to people familiar with talks with publishers.