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More disheartening news about newspapers.

Incredible example of a personalized digital book.

Is Apple justified in refusing to sell e-books that link to Amazon? Is this ethical?

The best reason to buy an e-reader in the first place? That's the claim made here about Amazon Singles.

G.P. Putnam's Sons acquired two new novels in Paretsky's bestselling V.I Warshawski series. Ivan Held, president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, and G.P. Putnam's Sons executive editor Christine Pepe negotiated the deal with Paretsky's longtime agent, Dominick Abel, for North American, audio and e-book rights.

Creative Nonfiction, the magazine founded in 1993, has launched Creative Nonfiction Books. Called a "natural extension of the magazine's mission," Creative Nonfiction Books will initially focus on anthologies with contributions from multiple authors, offering multiple perspectives.

The Perseus Books Group will make "a wide array" of its titles available through the Espresso Book Machine, and its 250 distribution clients will also be able to offer titles through the machine. Perseus follows HarperCollins as the second major trade house to offer a selection of its titles through EBM.

Recorded Books will publish audiobooks of the 2011 National Book Awards winners in three categories: fiction winner Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (February 28), nonfiction winner The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (which released earlier this year), and young people's literature winner Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (April 15).

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. (RLPG) has launched a new Web site to encompass all of its publishing programs: www.rowman.com. The site features the company's ten main imprints: AltaMira Press, Bernan Press, Government Institutes, Ivan R. Dee, Jason Aaronson, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Scarecrow Press, and Taylor Trade Publishing.

Libyans are celebrating the freedom to read whatever they want in a post-Gaddafi world. Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported.

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

Seth Godin takes a novel approach to self-publishing - thinking about promotion and distribution at the beginning of the process - and finds funding through KickStarter.

Wondering three things - 1) Is this enough? 2) Will the remaining Big 6 publishers follow suit? 3) What are the lending terms?

ZDNet's Rupert Goodwins is going blind . Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology can be adapted for people with visual disabilities.

Bookstore revival? Let's hope so. Perhaps some people like the personal touch after all.

The future of publishing in the next few years... "more dramatic, disruptive change ahead," said Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah.

A new editor for the OED.