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Speculation that the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be digital only.

Interesting look at actual costs of books and how it relates to ebooks

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

U of M Press will publish monographs only in digital form with an option for POD. The money quote "I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,"

Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users

Amazon.com Inc. could sell $248 million worth of digital books in 2010, up 84% from $135 million in 2009, according to an estimate from Credit Suisse ...

Hearst plans to launch next year a service called Skiff to sell digital subscriptions to newspapers and magazines in a format it hopes will be more visually appealing to users of electronic readers and other electronic devices." />

It is becoming increasingly difficult for even seasoned professionals to segue from print to digital.

While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.

Google plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, aiming to let users access books from a broad range of sites using multiple devices." />

Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here's the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google's I/O developer conference today.

The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.

Google's plan to add millions of books to digital library riding on new settlement

Web traffic only gets publishers so far in their quest for digital ad dollars. After a certain point, actually, traffic may not even matter.

McClatchy Launches Digital Papers on the Kindle - 11/23/2009