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Former editor of the New York Times Book Review, John Leonard, has passed. "The comma seemed to have been invented expressly for him."

The Washington Post will take a "watch and see" approach rather than rushing into a system to force its Internet readers to pay for content online, the vice chairman of the Washington Post Co., Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., said over the weekend. Mr. Jones,

Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary

Google Books has enabled the creation of a large datase of English words and phrases. The database is now available to the public and researchers.

When HP's webOS-based TouchPad makes its debut on July 1, it will ship with a new way for users to discover various apps for the platform, webOS Pivot. Pivot is basically a digital publication designed to help users discover different types of apps and content and to give developers more exposure. Every month, HP says it will publish Pivot, and that it will "include visually driven editorial pieces, columns from notable guest writers sharing their perspectives on digital culture, feature stories focused on applications around specific topics, and in-depth reviews."

Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally

Apparently in some places, the move to digital has been more pervasive than estimated.

No longer purely a vanity project, self-publishing is enjoying a boom, thanks to electronic readers.

We discussed in class how the Kindle has the ability to provide extra context for a book. It can tell a reader historical and cultural information so they have a better understanding of the book. Well, here is a website that is doing the same thing. It has maps, photos, videos and loads of extra information for readers. Check it out!