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Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

This week, California took a big step forward in open-source education. Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a proposal to create a website that will allow students to download popular textbooks for free. The legislation contains two bills: One, a proposal for the state to fund 50 open-source digital textbooks, targeted to lower-division courses, which will be produced by California's universities. The other bill is a proposal to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host those books.

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.

The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.

The always interesting Cory Doctorow on business models for digital content.

Popularity of eBooks has soared to unprecedented levels. Paper-bound books are getting replaced by numerous technologically enhanced e-reader devices like Kindle or Nook. Following digitalization of books and changing preference of readers, many book publishers have gone or are planning to go digital.

Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial "digital divide," a term concocted to portray "haves and have nots" in the world of the Internet.

Bloomberg reports that Apple is developing a digital newsstand to allow publishers to sell magazines and newspapers designed for reading on iPads and other Apple devices.

The digital divide is still alive and well....highlighted in an article centered in Fairfax.

An all-digital, luxury lifestyle magazine called VIVmag offers a glimpse of how magazine publishers could take advantage of the iPad's large, interactive color display.

With its acquisition of ReCaptcha, Google will use "human computation" to help scan old library books.

Amazon and Apple are looking to create markets for the sale of "used" e-books.

The world is going digital today with the advent of modern technologies. One can see this phenomenon on the books too that are now being downloaded from the internet. The publishers therefore are making all possible efforts to make books that can be read on all formats.

The premier conference on digital publishing technology and tools runs its course.  Great conference - sad to see it end.

Looking at the Google Books decision as an opportunity.

With new technology, there are endless possibilities for creating new works, this article explains why current copyright law inhibits this from happening, and why you should think twice about reusing music by Prince.