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Interesting conversation cropping up regarding WSJ's guidelines for journalists using social media. Click on the link to Editor & Publisher to see the guidelines.

The above article briefly talks about eBooks and the need for eBook conversion. Then it goes on to discuss some essential tips for authors and publishers before outsourcing eBook conversion requirements to a service provider.

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.

Snagged this from the Diigo homepage. With social media becoming a permanent part of online interaction, seems fitting to have some guidelines for educational purposes.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Thursday called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its recent guidelines regarding the commentary of bloggers and other social media opinion leaders, saying the new rules unconstitutionally penalize online media for practices traditional media have had in place for decades. Randall Rothenberg, IAB's chief executive, sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz saying the new rules will "muzzle" bloggers.

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.