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Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.

I thought comics/graphic novels were one corner of the print industry that was holding steady. Maybe not?

G.P. Putnam's Sons acquired two new novels in Paretsky's bestselling V.I Warshawski series. Ivan Held, president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, and G.P. Putnam's Sons executive editor Christine Pepe negotiated the deal with Paretsky's longtime agent, Dominick Abel, for North American, audio and e-book rights.

Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary

Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.

I recently got to meet Art Spiegelman, best known for his graphic novels Maus I & II. I asked him about his opinion on digital comics and he recognized their presence but believes the best way to read comics is on paper.

WSJ writer discusses why he likes viewing comics on digital readers.

Thomas Pynchon was one of the last great holdouts: the rare writer who had refused to allow his work to be sold in e-book format. Now he's changed his mind.

Seth Godin takes a novel approach to self-publishing - thinking about promotion and distribution at the beginning of the process - and finds funding through KickStarter.

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.

Tucked away in libraries across the country are unexpected archives and world-class treasures, including nurse romance novels, forgers and other frauds, and painted books.

Starting from a study that finds different reading practices for online content and print (or scanning vs. slow reading) the author argues against the trend of increasing technology investment in education. I think the argument would profit from a publisher's perspective, one where it's vital to evaluate how the content fits (or doesn't fit) the format. Like the author, I don't want to read Middlemarch ( my favorite novel) online, nor can I imagine anyone who would or who require it read in that format. Bottom line for me - publishers have much to offer the educational establishment.

As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."

Why it is important to fully think through one's marketing plans...this is also a great example of real-life viral marketing that started from a rather creative author idea. :)

The Chinese bestsellers are about work. Interesting article.

Recently, I went to a lecture about Japanese literature. This might be the newest wave of modern "writing" and publishing. Really interesting, I think.