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Publishers need to recognize that readers are shifting to ereading, and for this group if it's not in e-book format it doesn't exist.

Cory Doctorow weighs in on what publishing does for authors that the Internet cannot do.

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

Suggestions for epublishers from a reader's perspective

Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.

In class we talked about making things catchy or coming up with inventive strategies for attracting customers that are constantly bombarded by "cool." I tihnk this relatively new search engine might be on to a way to give customers a reason to use their product over the other guys that are trying to do the same thing.

How much responsibility do services bear for the actions of their users?

This would appeal to me more if I didn't get visions of people watching the 60 second videos and claiming to have "read" the book (my inner bookworm is cringing). If you can have previews for movies, though, I don't see why you couldn't have previews for a book, assuming that's how they are actually used (because I'm sure we all know how Cliff's Notes and even literary Wikipedia entries have turned out so far; some people do legitimately use them to merely clarify the text, but far more use them as a substitute...).

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.

Publishers buying ads on remnant ad networks threaten to undermine their brands, splitting their price structure and doing untold damage.

More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).

Publishers love to gripe about Google. But they almost never, ever, do the one thing that could put their money where their mouth is: Tell the search giant to

Mostly having to do with scholarly publishing....

If you want to know what paid content on the web can do for newspapers' paid circulation, keep your eye on places such as Lima, Ohio and Bend, Oregon.

Online magazines need to do more than just replicate print versions with added multimedia.  Need to think about platform specific design.

This is a disclosure statement from the JOHO blog. Do you think it goes far enough, or perhaps might it be detailed to the point of C-Y-A-neurosis?