I have a solution, but first, we need to be honest about what's really causing the death of newspapers and magazines."

Hotels in New York, Miami, and Turks & Caicos are now offering guests Sony Readers for loan. New York's storied Algonquin Hotel, meanwhile, already offers Amazon's Kindle.

This isn't real, but I thought it was a strange, funny, and silly idea at any rate!

Digital book site Scribd is wooing big publishers by offering greater control and more revenue than Amazon.

Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing , Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.

The latest Google search tool presents facts in an organized table format, but gives meager results.

Almost everybody loves an underdog. Still, it's a monumental leap of faith to suggest that a small fry has much of a chance at toppling the Goliath of the electronic reader market, Amazon.com.

Another downside to the failing newspaper industry model.

Some publications are looking beyond the standard glossy format to experiment with ideas of what a magazine can be."

All the more reason for one of us in this program to figure out a new business model!

Here's more info about one of the "Deep Web" search engines I spoke about in my presentation. Deep Dyve just released some new search tools that publishers may consider using to increase their web presence.

This article discusses how some major news organizations are participating in the "Digital Newsbook Publishing Project" which hopes to sell in-depth articles as digital books. This sounds very promising and reminds me a conversation we had in class about this very topic.

Google's Eric Schmidt called on newspaper executives to create a "new format" for online journalism, including more personalized content.

An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it. NEW YORK (RPRN) 04/07/09-

Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users