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These are some big names. I guess the Post is safe, for now at least.

Twitter walked away from a $500 million offer from Facebook. Why? They're confident that they can find a way to tap into their unique search capabilities and make a lot of money on highly targeted advertising.

Amazon charged $29.95 for the digital version of Confessions of a Butcher when the paperback cost only $11.95. After an outdry -- including a posting by the author's wife -- Amazon reduced the ebook price to $10.76

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

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

"Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day... In other words, Apple may have inadvertently sold more e-readers than any other company in the nascent digital book market. ...

This is article is worth looking at because it is a counterpoint to claims about younger generations being hyper-technical. This author cites Jeff Gomez's book Print is Dead and asks us to re-examine our assumptions about people's abilities and access to high-tech resources. It also warns us against adapting systems too quickly to this 'one-size-fits-all' digital system that might not meet the needs of a group because the group may be more diverse than we think.

Oprah likes the Kindle. Be prepared for the deluge.

In this twittering, pod casting, screen-viewing, digital age, the morning after America's historic presidential election found hundreds of people clamoring for something a bit more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper.

Google will include magazine content in its Book Search--but what will magazine publishers get out of it?

Speaking of reading an e-book, our text book for this class is apparently on Google Book Search. Maybe some of you knew that already, but I sure didn't! I like that this page also gives a list of other similar books.

Last one on the newspaper industry. But this one offers up some advice for papers to stay afloat in the digital age, instead of just tolling the death knell.

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.

There's a heated turf war going on inside the New York Times over the iPad, pitting print die-hards against people focused on the Times' digital future. The outcome will determine pricing for some marquee content on Apple's tablet.

The debate is over what parts of the online display-ad ecosystem, estimated to be worth $7.9 billion in 2010, are adding value for publishers or brands.

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.' " />

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George Walkley, head of Hachette UK, discusses how to combat piracy at The Bookseller's Digital Conference.