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Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.

. Kevin Green, a junior, loved the e-book required in his business-marketing class this spring. "But if it was an accounting course," he said, "I would kind of want a printed textbook because it's got all the numbers" and equations that would be harder to manage electronically. His instructor, Michael J. Wilson, an associate professor of accounting, economics, and finance, said the one problem they had with the e-book in the marketing course was when students needed to refer to a dense table of numbers in the bac

Another publisher of e-books goes totally DRM-free.

Pros and cons of e-books for libraries

This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.  

In a strongly worded message, Amazon said that while it disagreed with Macmillan's stance, it would accept the publisher's plan on e-book prices.

Amazon responds to e-book spam. First Amazon became a publisher, and now an editor.  Would have been better in the other order.

America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.

Reduced costs for e-publishing means new competition for traditional book publishers from unlikely sources.

I never really thought of news organizations and book publishers teaming up together, but after reading this, I'm beginning to like the idea of it.

Two new e-book readers: The PocketBook 301 and the PocketBook 360. Both support six languages, have built in Sudoku, chess, sea battle, and solitaire games as well as a picture viewer with a slideshow function, a clock, and calendar. Users can also change the font size or make notes.

Renewed interest in creating beautiful books as a response to ereaders.

Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....

Looks like some people who like e-publications would rather use their phones vs. a dedicated e-reader like the Kindle or Sony e-reader.

With ad revenue and audience on the decline, newspapers look to e-readers as a possible new revenue path. But early signs show that "win-win" deals between publishers and e-reader developers are both elusive and nonprofitable.

Would you want to read a book or newspaper on a cellphone screen? On Tuesday, Hearst e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung's mobile phone division to become its "preferred e-reading service partner."

Could be a significant change in the competitive landscape for e-readers and e-books

E-books monthly sales up 250% over same month last year, and highest monthly sales ever recorded.

Amazon and Macmillan reached an agreement on e-book pricing, a pact that may serve as a model with other publishing companies. Amazon resumed selling Macmillan titles." />

Like Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, a new dual-screen device has two faces to match its double identity: It promises to be an electronic book reader and a netbook at the same time."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Derik- are you insinuating that this new e-reader wants to kill Batman and destroy Gotham!?!