This won't be shocking, but there's a clear disconnect between publishers and an important market segment.

If this doesn't take you directly: Please see the article entitled "Amazon's Wild Pitch to Indies: 'Wanna Sell Kindles?'"  Then feel free to chuckle at Amazon.

With the Ethics in Publishing conference coming up, this might be interesting to see more of, high profile social networking sites making an effort to increase their own accessibility.  

'Out of Print' Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only about six years - counting from when Amazon introduced its Kindle in 2007.

This article examines the downside of user reviews and reveals the potential for their abuse.

NOOK fires back at the Kindle HD tablet offerings by launching a 7 & 9 inch tablet available in November.

Heat mapping to better direct your marketing efforts based on geography? Yes, please!

This probably isn't really "news", as this was coming...but still...it's arrived.

As we're unlikely to be actually designing many of the UI for publishing apps ourselves, it's never a bad idea to have this in the back of your mind when speaking with your design firm/vendor/department at the start of a project. Especially, with the growth of smartphones, mid-sized and larger sized tablet devices.

Wal-Mart says adios to selling the Kindle in-store.

Interesting...ebook sales are up compared with last year, but physical books seem unaffected according to this report. 

Crowdfunded ebook operation that is just releasing it's first "unglued" edition, that is, not proprietary to any device and free to all who want to download it.  What's cool about Unglue.it is that they're attempting to raise money for specific publishing projects to compensate authors, and get their work out to anyone who can download it.  It's early and success is not guaranteed, but it's a cool idea!

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

Stephen Marche rebels against digital formats (sort of) by creating an interior layout that can't possibly be read on a device...not sure I agree... but it's an interesting look at an author seeing books as art.  That I can agree with.

Evernote has teamed up with Moleskine to create a notebook that clips into Evernote via your camera phone, bridging the gap between written and digital notes...and it comes with cool stickers.

Vatican & Oxford libraries get 3.2 million to digitize 1.5 million pages of some of their oldest holdings!

Chip Kidd at TED, in all his Chip Kiddness, talking about the importance of book design and his involvment.

Here's the Apple Education event live blog from Engadget.  There's some big news regarding iBooks 2 and Apple's vision of the future for textbooks. Interesting stuff!

The Apple iBookstore is giving away a copy of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" book.