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

Media company strikes new deal with Google to help boost e-commerce.

Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.

A successful example of the Long Tail Theory, Oak Knoll Press, publisher of rare, out of print books, managed to increase its sales this year-despite catering to a niche audience-by focusing on what loyal customers ask for instead of what doesn't sell.

Sorry, this didn't seem to bookmark the first time. But it looks like niche magazines are getting hit hard by lost advertising revenue.

Bookswim aims to be Netflix for books. Comments on this article from book authors are worth reading.

Amazon said it will begin offering authors and publishers a bigger cut of book sales on its Kindle e-reader-but with strings attached aimed at keeping prices that consumers pay down." />

Paid content: Charging The New York Times Online's heaviest users preserves ad inventory but risks the readers most valuable for ad sales.

In 2007 the JISC national e-books observatory project was set up to undertake market research to help e-book publishers, aggregators, libraries and funding bodies understand the behaviours of e-book users and to assess the impact of free at-the-point of use course text e-books on traditional print sales to students

a large survey conducted by two major trade groups, revealed that sales of e-books and juvenile and adult fiction have helped the publishing industry expand.

An interesting take on where publishing is going.

Publisher Bloomsbury purchases the Arden Shakespeare series as a growth driver, now that Harry Potter series sales drop. The Bard Rules!

No industry is recession proof, but a decline of 2.8% looks fairly modest by comparison to other industries. Caveats for this report - it's based on 81 publishers, and includes segments that had solid growth (paperbacks).

San Francisco -- Google Inc. is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine, a shift that eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved publishers.

Amazon.com (AMZN) has cut the price of the Kindle e-book reader to $259 from $299, the company announced. Amazon also unveiled plans to sell an international version of the Kindle in more than 100 countries. The international version will be priced at $279; it goes on sale October 19. Until [...]

The retailer cut the price of the e-reader to $259, from $279, only a couple of weeks after sales began.

Walmart, Amazon and Target are limiting online sales of certain steeply discounted books, preventing small bookshops from taking advantage of a price war to stock their own shelves." />