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The author/publisher relationship in the digital age.

The Authors Guild website that will alert authors when Amazon removes the buy button from their books.

This bill was passed by the House of Representatives regarding American authors' and publishers' First Amendment rights.

This is article is worth looking at because it is a counterpoint to claims about younger generations being hyper-technical. This author cites Jeff Gomez's book Print is Dead and asks us to re-examine our assumptions about people's abilities and access to high-tech resources. It also warns us against adapting systems too quickly to this 'one-size-fits-all' digital system that might not meet the needs of a group because the group may be more diverse than we think.

Short pieces on the economics of publishing from the authors of the best-seller Freakonomics. This page lists all their articles tagged as "pubishing"

A Georgetown University program to help authors through the publishing process.

from a friend: "a nice round up of blog touring - aka virtual book touring - which is an increasingly popular (and green) option for authors, particularly as the number of traditional book store venues concentrates."

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

Macmillan is introducing software that will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks without consulting the original authors or publisher.

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.

I wonder if publishers can make the argument that the work done on the book as a whole (primarily editing, but the .pdf format of the eBooks are still a very popular format, so design & typesetting come into play) would preclude them from giving the author the final files to create the eBook with another publisher.

As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."

Nick Carr (of "The Shallows") is skeptical of the Kindle Fire's new "X-Ray" feature. He writes, "A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance. A person of the book may see the technology as a catastrophe."

Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows", raises another alarm about enhanced reading tools for e-books, but what doesn't like may be just what others find most compelling about e-books.

Yet another example of how copyright hampers authors and markets.

Andrew Keen, author of "The Cult of the Amateur" argues that 2009 is the year publishing hits the tipping point with respect to the printed book.

Author and Atlantic Monthly columnist James Fallows discusses his new Kindle and reflects on the future of books.

Like Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, a new dual-screen device has two faces to match its double identity: It promises to be an electronic book reader and a netbook at the same time."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Derik- are you insinuating that this new e-reader wants to kill Batman and destroy Gotham!?!