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Musings on whether we're losing something really vital by getting sucked into the digital world.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader

With print newspapers striving to survive by hopping onto the Web, new Harris poll finds 77 percent of online adults wouldn't pay to read a newspaper's content online. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.

The digital age may end the free advertising that publishers got from readers of their books in printed form.

An all-digital, luxury lifestyle magazine called VIVmag offers a glimpse of how magazine publishers could take advantage of the iPad's large, interactive color display.

Magazine-and-newspaper publisher Hearst is near a deal to buy digital-marketing firm iCrossing, the latest sign of how publishers are going head to head with Madison Avenue to grab some of the growing revenues from online advertising." />

Magazines' biggest digital success right now may be selling print subscriptions through the web.

When HP's webOS-based TouchPad makes its debut on July 1, it will ship with a new way for users to discover various apps for the platform, webOS Pivot. Pivot is basically a digital publication designed to help users discover different types of apps and content and to give developers more exposure. Every month, HP says it will publish Pivot, and that it will "include visually driven editorial pieces, columns from notable guest writers sharing their perspectives on digital culture, feature stories focused on applications around specific topics, and in-depth reviews."

The Post took a very big step this week, perhaps a leap. It has posted publicly for all to see its new 5,000-word guidelines for digital publishing - the dos and don'ts for journalists working in this new age of online and social-media publishing.

Library of Congress is hosting a symposium on digital media and preservation on Oct 20th.

Read the original article by Darnton first and then also see the full text of Courant reply on his blog at http://paulcourant.net/2009/02/04/google-robert-darnton-and-the-digital-republic-of-letters/

With its acquisition of ReCaptcha, Google will use "human computation" to help scan old library books.

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." />

The New York Times added 281,000 digital subscribers in its most recent quarter - enough to keep its overall circulation revenues flat, but not enough to offset a drop in advertising.

Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.

Citizens took to the digital streets today to celebrate what has become known as "Internet Freedom Day." The new holiday celebrates users' ability to speak, share, create, and innovate. It commemorates the Internet blackout of Jan. 18, 2012, in which tens of thousands of websites participated, to protest the draconian copyright bills SOPA and PIPA.

Amazon and Apple are looking to create markets for the sale of "used" e-books.

The world is going digital today with the advent of modern technologies. One can see this phenomenon on the books too that are now being downloaded from the internet. The publishers therefore are making all possible efforts to make books that can be read on all formats.

America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.