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Last year, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. learned that a popular iPad application based on a book could drive sales of both. Now the publisher will see whether the reverse works: a book based on an iPad app.

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!

Is listening to an audiobook "reading" the book? Why do we tend to think that one form is "true" reading?

Dec. 12 at 11am - Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works and Fair Use in a Digital Age. Event is at the Newseum.

Renewed interest in creating beautiful books as a response to ereaders.

Print your blog as a book. Can be done for other formats as well such as Twitter and Facebook,

Breaking news about Google Books

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.

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen finds that the Kindle Fire comes up short as a reading platform.

Interesting debate on the value of trade publishers in the digital era.

I think this article overlaps into the discussion of ethics in publishing. Personally, I am not only appalled but also very disappointed in the choice Lifeway made to stop selling these Bibles. 

The Apple iBookstore is giving away a copy of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" book.