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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.

Rethinking the bookstore.

Tim O'Reilly presents this webcast on digital bookmaking. I thought this would be fun for us pubies (new publishers). Its a perfect segway into our Monday class discussion. I might take a listen b/c this definitely interests.

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.

The conditions in digital media, essential to just about any future growth for newspapers, are getting worse for papers.

Google buys Invite Media and Hearst acquires iCrossing.

Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.

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?

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.

Macmillan is introducing software that will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks without consulting the original authors or publisher.

Did the internet kill quality? Or just redefine it?

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

With Nielsen's update to its @Plan system, some big sites are getting a shock and seeing wide swings from what the old data said about their audiences.