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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!

new Nook promotion for short e-reads

New book titles published this year, based on statistics from UNESCO. Real time data broken down by country.

More disheartening news about newspapers.

Not really about digital publishing, but incredibly important for anyone who uses a Google product and cares about their privacy.

If you care about your online privacy and you use Google services, you should watch this video.

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).

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.

NOOK fires back at the Kindle HD tablet offerings by launching a 7 & 9 inch tablet available in November.

Interesting piece on the challenges for first time authors

Amazon no friend of publishing.

It's a book that I wish I would have authored!

Cory Doctorow on what publishers can learn from Silicon Valley.