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.
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.
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!
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.
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!