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I know this is going to affect my publishing budget for this year.

an interesting take on the top fonts of 2008

Brief article on Meredith magazines trimming production costs and improving advertising workflow with a simple portal for submission of files.

Here is the link to the 10-minute Drupal Tutorial that I posted on the Wiki. This site looks full of good information.

Interesting video of a dual display ebook reader. Design is based on usability analyses of how people use printer materials.

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.

The digital age may end the free advertising that publishers got from readers of their books in printed form.

They're here, but they have a way to go to be superior reading devices

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."

With the Google Book Settlement all but dead, another sign that the market is moving on: This morning, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) confirmed that Michael Healy, the former executive director (designate) for the Google Settlement's proposed Book Rights Registry, is joining CCC and will start in October in the newly created post of executive director, Author and Publisher Relations.

Qualifies as a form of publishing. But I bookmarked this because I admire the way this site is a collaborative effort to promote a lifestyle, and it's pretty well done. Simple layout, tons o f content, RSS feeds and Twitter.

A review of the iPad app "Our Choice" - an interactive book by Al Gore.

Analysis of why Murdoch's "The Daily" app for the iPad seems to be a failure.

FOR decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a white-glove six-week course in which ambitious college graduates were educated in the time-honored basics of book editing, sales, cover design and publicity. Not this summer.

Book publishing history