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How do you keep a print book relevant in a rapidly changing technology domain?  Continuous publishing is one possibility, supported in O'Reilly Press' Live Editions.   See the comments for some interesting discussion with the authors of the first Live Edition book.

Interesting mix of print and e-publication.

Print your blog as a book. Can be done for other formats as well such as Twitter and Facebook,

The fabulous online comic xkcd is coming out in a print format book. Tag line could be "Publishers? We don't need no stinking publishiers!"

Offset printing vs Print on Demand - Visual chart comparisons

Not exactly news, but for those that haven't seen this yet through Publisher's Weekly it's a microsite called Book Life. Great resource for book blogs and reviews.

Ron Charles talks about the challenges of trying to adapt print-book reader behaviors to e-readers.

Crowdfunding out-of-print books.

Always good to see small groups thinking outside the box and pooling their money to try something innovative.

Latest data on US sales of print and e-books.

Good review of the costs and royalties for books in different formats.

This looks like the article discussed by Bob Faherty in Thursday's class.

Andrew Keen, author of "The Cult of the Amateur" argues that 2009 is the year publishing hits the tipping point with respect to the printed book.

. Kevin Green, a junior, loved the e-book required in his business-marketing class this spring. "But if it was an accounting course," he said, "I would kind of want a printed textbook because it's got all the numbers" and equations that would be harder to manage electronically. His instructor, Michael J. Wilson, an associate professor of accounting, economics, and finance, said the one problem they had with the e-book in the marketing course was when students needed to refer to a dense table of numbers in the bac

Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.

"more affordable than print books" depends on your pricing model

Wednesday, November 9, Politics & Prose officially launched "Opus," Washington's first print-on-demand Espresso book machine. It's one of only a handful operating in independent bookstores worldwide.

Field trip, anyone?

New technology allowing users to create their own Commonplace Book: BookRiff, a Vancouver-based company that promises to allow consumers to mix print content and create their own books and e-books, is scheduled to launch Oct. 6.

A successful example of the Long Tail Theory, Oak Knoll Press, publisher of rare, out of print books, managed to increase its sales this year-despite catering to a niche audience-by focusing on what loyal customers ask for instead of what doesn't sell.

A report on different experiences in reading in print and online.