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Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

Awesome company. Be sure to check out the Mirasol story. I heard about this technology from a Forbes article on the thinnest, lightest e-reader by Qualcomm. 

Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits. Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, aggregators put all of the Web's big headlines of the moment onto one page. There's no shortage in news aggregation. General news readers might go to Google News, a computer-generated engine that pulls in more than 25,000 newspaper websites and authoritative blogs. Left-leaning political consumers might visit the Huffington Post; right-leaning...

Publishers disillusioned with purpose built mobile apps look to web technologies and HTML5

Comment on Nicholas Carr's new book "The Shallows" and argument that technology multi-tasking is dangerously affecting our ability for deep, reflective reading.

Hearst plans to introduce a large-format device this year based on electronic-ink technology.

More on the Google-AAP settlement. Key take-away ""But content owners also belatedly realize that simply suing consumers who find new, convenient ways to access content online is not as good as finding new business models to profit from customer interest that technology makes possible."

With new technology, there are endless possibilities for creating new works, this article explains why current copyright law inhibits this from happening, and why you should think twice about reusing music by Prince.

I found this article interesting because I think the e-reader debate can be made in terms of the different technologies. And something to consider for any of you interested in purchasing one or the other.

This is a segment from a "To the Best of Our Knowledge" podcast from a few weeks ago. Mr. Creative Commons (Lawrence Lessig), of course, says the copyright laws are too strict, but he talked in particular about the laws in relation to new technologies, in particular, mashup artists.

A Taiwanese company, Prime View International, plans to pay $215 million to acquire E-Ink, which owns the technology for displaying text in e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.

Amazon and Apple are looking to create markets for the sale of "used" e-books.

The world is going digital today with the advent of modern technologies. One can see this phenomenon on the books too that are now being downloaded from the internet. The publishers therefore are making all possible efforts to make books that can be read on all formats.

Article in Slate about POD and the ways in which it can help the yearbook business, which has some really interesting parameters to follow as a short-run publication....

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