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Would you want to read a book or newspaper on a cellphone screen? On Tuesday, Hearst e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung's mobile phone division to become its "preferred e-reading service partner."

"Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall." 2. They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of "electronic narcotics." 5. If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube. 18. Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf. 27. Outdated icons with images of floppy discs for "save," a telephone for "phone," and a snail mail envelope for "mail" have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screens. 35. Probably the most tribal generation in history, they despise being separated from contact with their similar-aged friends. 47. Before they purchase an assigned textbook, they will investigate whether it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book. 56. They have always enjoyed school and summer camp memories with a digital yearbook. 71. Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.

Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google's Android software.

Google AdSense For Mobile Supports HTML Browsing Phones - 10/06/2009

Looks like some people who like e-publications would rather use their phones vs. a dedicated e-reader like the Kindle or Sony e-reader.

Monday, February 16, Adobe unveiled its new Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK (Software Development Kit), which will enable companies to more easily distribute and display ebooks in PDF and EPUB formats on mobile phones, ereaders and other mobile devices.

"Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?

Evernote has teamed up with Moleskine to create a notebook that clips into Evernote via your camera phone, bridging the gap between written and digital notes...and it comes with cool stickers.

Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms - Kindle edition by Renee B. Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Drawing For Beginners: From Dot To Drawing Shapes And Forms.

Network Mapping And Network Scanning: (NMAP Cookbook, NMAP, NMAP Essentials, NMAP Network Scanning, NMAP Scanning) - Kindle edition by Renee B. Williams. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Network Mapping And Network Scanning: (NMAP Cookbook, NMAP, NMAP Essentials, NMAP Network Scanning, NMAP Scanning).

How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking - Kindle edition by Megan Coulter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking.

Amazing numbers from China.  50% of the population under 29 read e-books (generally on cell phones)

We should know later today about the next generation of Kindle, but most interesting to me in this article is the mention that Kindle titles will be available for cell phones. This makes the iPhone a competitive product and greatly expands the market.

Possible generation-gap-type issues for digital educational publishing for colleges: "Today, the college assumes all students not only have computer skills but a plethora of high-tech devices and services. The class schedule and registration procedure is entirely online-even if you're in the registrar's office....In the first class, the professor handed out her e-mail address and the URL where the syllabus could be found--instead of her office phone number and a copy of the syllabus. Unfortunately, the college sites are full of graphics and animations and download very slowly on my dial-up connection. (Even if I could afford a broadband connection, my ISP doesn't provide it in my area.)" "At least one exercise in each chapter requires accessing the publisher's textbook Web site. Many of these exercises could just as easily be put on the computer disk also sold-at an increased profit (I used to work for a textbook-preparation company)-with the text....Again, a dial-up connection won't download the videos. The audio files are .mp3; I can't open them, don't have the skill to know what program I need, and have no access to free technical support....So once every chapter I head for either the heavily used public library or the equally heavily used computer lab in the college's suburban learning center (branch campus)--and hope that a computer is available."

Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....

Ethical dilemma -- how far can a publication ethically go to get a hold of its story sources?

Recently, I went to a lecture about Japanese literature. This might be the newest wave of modern "writing" and publishing. Really interesting, I think.