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Starting from a study that finds different reading practices for online content and print (or scanning vs. slow reading) the author argues against the trend of increasing technology investment in education. I think the argument would profit from a publisher's perspective, one where it's vital to evaluate how the content fits (or doesn't fit) the format. Like the author, I don't want to read Middlemarch ( my favorite novel) online, nor can I imagine anyone who would or who require it read in that format. Bottom line for me - publishers have much to offer the educational establishment.

A major magazine is boosting its video content, most of which is pulled from other sources and curated by the magazine. Interesting way to cater to their audience and keep them coming back, not to mention advertising implications.

How to survive in the era of free content, pirated content. Written for musicians but contains lessons for publishers as well.

Amazon and Macmillan reached an agreement on e-book pricing, a pact that may serve as a model with other publishing companies. Amazon resumed selling Macmillan titles." />

H-P, Dell and others are plotting strategies and developing devices to rival Apple's attention-grabbing iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was all but moribund." />

Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cellphones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center." />

Last year, magazine executives spent much of their time detailing how they planned to take their brands digital. Now,five major magazines are teaming up on a multimillion-dollar campaign touting the 'power of print.' " />

Software maker reached licensing agreement that covers open-source software used by Internet retailer. " />

CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news to the Web sites of larger media outlets." />

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." />

In The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the Internet will not destroy news organizations. He says that Google working in cooperation with publishers of newspapers and magazines can help bring about a business model to share ad revenue from searches." />

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." />

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

Amazon said it will begin offering authors and publishers a bigger cut of book sales on its Kindle e-reader-but with strings attached aimed at keeping prices that consumers pay down." />

The Justice Department struck deals with three universities not to promote Amazon's Kindle or other e-book readers unless the devices are fully accessible to blind students." />

Barnes & Noble will offer an e-book reader application for Apple's new iPad tablet computer, providing access to the electronic books it sells. " />

While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />

A laundry list of open questions about Apple's iPad isn't keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week." />

Random House is the only major publisher whose titles cannot be bought directly from Apple's iBooks application, having resisted the new pricing model that Apple offered publishers for the iPad." />

Magazine and newspaper publishers rushed to prep their titles for the debut of Apple's iPad last weekend, but some are working to develop ways to sell their publications separately from Apple's iTunes." />