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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.

Creative Nonfiction, the magazine founded in 1993, has launched Creative Nonfiction Books. Called a "natural extension of the magazine's mission," Creative Nonfiction Books will initially focus on anthologies with contributions from multiple authors, offering multiple perspectives.

Cory Doctorow's fabulous spit in Microsoft's eye, from 2004. Translated by fans into multiple formats and languages, for free, because of his openness.

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." />

If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers

Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.

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.

Having a virtual book club has never been easier thanks to new tools from Facebook, Skype and Google. Today Facebook announced new updates that make it easier to chat with multiple people and to hold one-on-one video calls.