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Hearst Publishing is attempting to become the first publisher to enter the ereader market with a model geared toward magazines. Hearst made news last year when it published the first magazine using E Ink, so it's no strange to pushing the envelope for its business.

CMSWire Article: Web Publishing Fun with Drupal Integration and CMIS Repos

Students hate textbook publishers; textbook publishers hate that students resell, reuse, and download copies of their texts. Is there a middle ground, a sustainable business model where all parties have a sense of fairness?

Presentation from the director of O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference and the future of publishing.

Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.

Jason Epstein, a major figure in publishing, looks back to look forward to the future of publishing.

Publishers win a big one in confrontation with Apple.  No more requirement that content subscriptions must go through Apple, no more 30% revenue sharing with Apple, and control of user/reader information remains w/publishers.

Self-published authors and publishing houses are learning to work together.

Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.

The premier conference on digital publishing technology and tools runs its course.  Great conference - sad to see it end.

Commentary on the broken-ness of academic publishing.

Chart of publishing in the digital era

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. (RLPG) has launched a new Web site to encompass all of its publishing programs: www.rowman.com. The site features the company's ten main imprints: AltaMira Press, Bernan Press, Government Institutes, Ivan R. Dee, Jason Aaronson, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Scarecrow Press, and Taylor Trade Publishing.

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.

In light of demands by the State of Texas for biology textbooks with "balanced"  treatment of evolution. "So here's the missing piece: what about the textbook companies? When this issue is discussed, the publishers are talked about as if they have no agency, no ability to affect the outcome of these events. But they're morally culpable for participating in these farces. If they wanted, they could stand up to the state of Texas. So how can the people who work at a publisher in good conscience agree to write a biology textbook that treats evolution as a wild, unsupported idea?

This is few months old, but still a worthwhile read on the state of the job market and planning for a career in publishing.

Publishing in a Social World