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New bill is in the Senate that would make illegal streaming of audiovisual works over the Internet a felony offense in some cases potentially hurting YouTube. More broadly, Bill S.978 could also hurt anyone who embeds these videos, leading to 5 years of jail time.

Ethical dilemma -- how far can a publication ethically go to get a hold of its story sources?

Having a virtual book club has never been easier thanks to new tools from Facebook, Skype and Google. Today Facebook announced new updates that make it easier to chat with multiple people and to hold one-on-one video calls.

"Yet as new old books become available - listed, for instance, on Manybooks.net - you get the puzzling sense that books are leaping almost randomly from their shelves into the digital realm. " Is there any logic to the way books are chosen for digitizing?

University Presses using Social Media to drive search and discovery

Interesting story of business model evolution for college textbook rentals. 

Interesting story of business model evolution for college textbook rentals. 

Book publishing history

Resolved, but without much in the way of details

Report says 86% of Canadians purchase print formats and 19% buy electronic formats, while only 7% buy both.

Kind of like a QR code function.

Satire (or truth?) from the Onion

The premier conference on digital publishing technology and tools runs its course.  Great conference - sad to see it end.

"Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."