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As we're unlikely to be actually designing many of the UI for publishing apps ourselves, it's never a bad idea to have this in the back of your mind when speaking with your design firm/vendor/department at the start of a project. Especially, with the growth of smartphones, mid-sized and larger sized tablet devices.

Excellent read from  book designer "I want to look at where printed books stand in respect to digital publishing, why we historically haven't read long-form text on screens and how the iPad is wedging itself in the middle of everything. In doing so I think we can find the line in the sand to define when content should be printed or digitized. This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns."

10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs

Those were awesome, though I was a little surprised to not see Snoop Dogg's new book that can be...ahem...smoked: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2012/4/3/rolling-words-snoop-doggs-smokable-book.html

hahaha! that's unbelievable!

This is a funny take on designing the "Kindle 3"!

Those of you who went to the Donnelly plant might remember seeing this book (and hearing about the challenges of producing it). Here Chip Kidd at Knopf talks about creating the unique design.

Photoshop Etiquette, Cloud Computing, Understanding Google PageRank and more..

Chip Kidd at TED, in all his Chip Kiddness, talking about the importance of book design and his involvment.

Quick Tips: How to Design a Book Cover with Blurb

Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions - deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading.

Cover design in the age of ebooks.

On bringing design to e-books.

NOOK fires back at the Kindle HD tablet offerings by launching a 7 & 9 inch tablet available in November.

Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising

Apparently ebooks and other electronic devices so dominate the world of children that there's a need for a children's book designed to explain what a print book isn't.

"It's that separability of design and text that has led to the third wave of the web, in which readers (or what some would call end-users) are in control of how the content they are reading looks. And, as it turns out, many of those readers like their designs to be as minimal as possible."