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This author is using Google Drive/Docs to write and edit her book for everyone to see.

It's all just a little bit of history repeating...some of these quotes sounds awfully familiar these days WRT lamenting how no one writes or reads paper anymore because of the frenetic pace of life.

The Pulliam Fellowship awards $75,000 to an outstanding editorial writer or columnist to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. The annual award can be used to cover the cost of study, research and/or travel in any field. The fellowship results in editorials and other writings, including books.

Writing the book. --a free e-book from the Nieman Foundation

A blender that makes smoothies based on fruits trending on Twitter. I think things like this could help publishers think outside the box.Similar to authors who write chapter by chapter and then based on reader comments, continue and develop the story. Digital influence in realtime.

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?

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

A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal.  If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this  

I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.

Kevin Kelly on efforts to scan all the world's books.

Apple has sold one million iPads just four weeks. Writing in an Apple press release, Steve Jobs compares this to the 74 days it took to achieve this

Insuring that cloud computing doesn' lead to a loss of privacy and the ability to innovate.

What to do with old-fashioned books, now that you can download them to your Kindle? Write/illustrator Bruce McCall has some humorous answers.

The need of eBook Production Services for managing and advertising your business. eBooks have changed the way of reading and the way of living. People have transformed themselves with the digital world and hence it is important that you should hire an eBook Development Service.

Interesting