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More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).

How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking - Kindle edition by Megan Coulter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading How To Talk To Anyone: Mastering The Art Of Talking.

Stephen Marche rebels against digital formats (sort of) by creating an interior layout that can't possibly be read on a device...not sure I agree... but it's an interesting look at an author seeing books as art.  That I can agree with.

I recently got to meet Art Spiegelman, best known for his graphic novels Maus I & II. I asked him about his opinion on digital comics and he recognized their presence but believes the best way to read comics is on paper.

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

Google Editions launches!  This should be fun to watch.

Strange how there is no Arts/Culture subject category to browse (film? music? art? photography? painting? dance?), since they have other categories defined...

Tucked away in libraries across the country are unexpected archives and world-class treasures, including nurse romance novels, forgers and other frauds, and painted books.

Not all books end up on bookshelves, used bookstores as pulp. The book itself can be an artistic medium.

The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.

A classic cookbook becomes an e-book after working though a number of technical problems.

Read about the latest Entertainment News on Wired.com, including art, technology, films, animation, music, web video, tv, podcasts, and blogs.

Non-linear storytelling engines and Ulysses in one article. Bam!

Ron Charles talks about the challenges of trying to adapt print-book reader behaviors to e-readers.

E-books are more than a publishing platform-they're a ­whole new literary form.

Wednesday, November 9, Politics & Prose officially launched "Opus," Washington's first print-on-demand Espresso book machine. It's one of only a handful operating in independent bookstores worldwide.

Field trip, anyone?

Financing a publishing project by crowdsourcing. 

Article about the history of electronic peer-review sytems coauthored by Lyndon Holmes, creator of Editorial Manager.

Former editor of the New York Times Book Review, John Leonard, has passed. "The comma seemed to have been invented expressly for him."

Interesting how a decision to make a logo the same on both their Web site and newspaper could cause people to start talking.

Simon & Schuster plans to postpone the release of 35 e-book titles by four months. This is in part attributed to the sales of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" in which the publisher noticed that e-book sales were cannibalizing hardcover sales.