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It's all just a little bit of history repeating...some of these quotes sounds awfully familiar these days WRT lamenting how no one writes or reads paper anymore because of the frenetic pace of life.

Preview and download books by Megan Coulter, including How To Win Friends And Influence People, Codependent No More: Life Can Be Better When You Overcome Codependency, Boundaries In Relationships: Learn When To Say Yes, Make Your Life Healthy, Set Boundaries Between Relationships, and many more.

Really, really great interview series with authors, publishers and writers about their ideas for the future of reading. Includes Clay Shirky, Maria Popova & Clive Thompson. Also nice to see a blog like this on tumblr.

Now who exactly will publish the fictitious biography of Kim Jong Eun? And how do I get a copy? 

Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

This makes so much sense to me that I can't stand it. One of those "Why didn't I think of that first?" moments!

Use OverDrive, an alternative to Amazon's Prime accounts only Kindle Lending Library program

More on publishers bundling subscriptions to print and digital media.

Not really about digital publishing, but incredibly important for anyone who uses a Google product and cares about their privacy.

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In which, among other things, ebook retailer giants (Amazon, Apple) turn down e-books because they contain links to a competitor's product.

If you care about your online privacy and you use Google services, you should watch this video.

Update: Though it still seems like a strong possibility that publisher demands are behind this, several commenters and other sources have pointed out that it's just as likely to have been Amazon's decision. We mistakenly stated that Amazon implied they were acting at the publishers' behest, but that was a misreading of the quote from Findings and has been corrected.

ZDNet's Rupert Goodwins is going blind . Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology can be adapted for people with visual disabilities.

If your novel isn't by someone famous, won't receive a star in Publishers Weekly, or can't generate a slavish "At Home" featurette in That Other East Coast Newspaper, how do you get someone in the media to notice it? Swag, of course.