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Big publishers are flocking to the iPad, readying to publish electronic versions of their bestselling books on Apple's much-anticipated tablet ...

Perseus Books Group and Workman Publishing Company, both independent publishers, signed deals with Apple to sell electronic versions of their books on the iPad.

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.

Sony's electronic reader will offer subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, the latest in a series of moves by publishers and consumer-electronics companies to loosen Amazon's hold on the embryonic e-reader market." />

If electronic books are the future-literary volumes optimized for the Kindle, the Sony Reader, the iPhone-how come two of this fall's hottest books won't be available in digital form anytime soon?

Established educational publishers are beginning - slowly - to adapt to the future of textbooks and the needs of their readers. Note that open textbook initiatives may overtake the entrenched publishers.

Hearst plans to launch next year a service called Skiff to sell digital subscriptions to newspapers and magazines in a format it hopes will be more visually appealing to users of electronic readers and other electronic devices." />

Condé Nast and Adobe are building a digital version of Wired magazine for electronic reading devices, as publishers struggle to render magazines on e-readers." />

This issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing is devoted to the future of university presses.

The answer to the question posed in the title is yes.

No longer purely a vanity project, self-publishing is enjoying a boom, thanks to electronic readers.

The company acquired an electronic reading platform called Skiff and invested in a company working on pay models for newspapers and magazines.

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?

Not really about digital publishing, but incredibly important for anyone who uses a Google product and cares about their privacy.

The comments make this worth posting.