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Bookish is a new online service for discovering and purchasing books. It's a joint venture of three of the largest trade publishers: Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Penguin. (Penguin will shortly be merging with Random House.)

This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.  

Pressure to go digital cited as one the motives for the merger.

Interesting developments ahead.

Wondering three things - 1) Is this enough? 2) Will the remaining Big 6 publishers follow suit? 3) What are the lending terms?

Pearson provides developers with access to dozens of classic books and thousands of images through an application programming interface.

Examines publishing vs. self-publishing in the aftermath of Penguin's decision to cancel an author's contract when she self-published a collection of stories.