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Bookish is a new online service for discovering and purchasing books. It's a joint venture of three of the largest trade publishers: Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Penguin. (Penguin will shortly be merging with Random House.)

Publishing is adapting, not disappearing.

Why is publishing doing better than other "culture Industries"

Small publisher stands up to Amazona

Journal publishers face pushback on prices from Harvard- the richest university in the world.

I heard this on the way to my Dad's place the day before Thanksgiving and kept forgetting to post the link.

Uneasy relations between libraries and publishers may mean that all parties lose.

Andrew Sullivan commentary on the publishing industry.

36 minute podcast of Book Expo America's 2011 focus on publishing in Italy.

My workplace, AAPS, uses Springer for publishing one of our journals. 

The challenges of magazine publishing in a country where government controls publishing.

Good review of the effect of Amazon on publishing and the failure of publishers to understand the changes brought about by Amazon.

Conventional wisdom says that entrepreneurs who start a Web-based business will do so with VC money. Read enough stories of Internet ventures that enjoy lucrative exits in the millions (in some cases billions) of dollars, and it's easy to assume that the only path to success is to begin by securing deals with investors who are far less interested in helping a start-up build a substantial brand as they are in realizing a return as quickly as possible. Bootstrapping simply isn't sexy anymore. But for many start-up publishers, bootstrapping is a way of life, and VC money isn't an option.

Are Publishers Embracing The Post-iPad Age? - 06/17/2010

The author/publisher relationship in the digital age.