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Received notice of this page via Tim O'Reilly's tweet. He says: ""Very cool: Journal of Visualized Science Experiments. A multimedia re-visioning of the science journal."

Hmm. This is British and talks about a primarily British (that I can tell) service marrying itself to Facebook, but it has interesting implications should others decide to adopt the same thing. "'There's been a big barrier to sign-up, we wanted to remove that and make it a seamless experience,' [Daniel Ek, Spotify co-founder] said in one tweet, apparently indifferent to the criticism that Spotify had just erected a barrier where there wasn't one before." "'We want to remove barrier to sign-up and create a more seamless experience...' he confirmed in a follow-up." Yep, it'll be completely seamless for the advertisers who want to target Spotify users, they can get all sorts of other info on them besides just that they downloaded Rebecca Black's "Friday"...Zuckerberg must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Small indie publishers are likely to be the source of innovation for publishing.

Remember that Radiohead experiment back in 2007, the one where they allowed free downloads of their latest album and asked listeners to pay what they felt was fair? Some say it was successful and others beg to disagree. Assuming Amazon...

I think that the debates over owning vs. subscribing, pricing vs. donating, supporting vs. freeloading are some of the most interesting aspects of the move to digital distribution. Would this work for Amazon? I think it was generally considered a success for Radiohead. I know I "bought" a copy.

Will open access journals accept anything for publication? Account of an experiment with a Bentham open access journal.

Perhaps the most revealing thing about the "Dumb Money" story, in fact, is that everyone involved -- author, agent and publisher -- saw it as an experiment, the kind of small-scale trial run that a late-adopting industry needs to do a lot more of.

Select offerings DRM-free

Experimenting with new business models in epubs: "For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price."

Free preview of Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience

As online publishers look to increase ad revenue, readers look to ways of removing ad clutter and a better reading experience.

Good times for independent bookstores? Where people value the experience of book shopping over price, the answer may be yes.

This article was referenced in the one I just bookmarked on the newspaper industry. This one talks about a better online reading experience.

WSJ.com and social networking--new experiment (started Tuesday, September 16).

A report on different experiences in reading in print and online.

A book lover recounts the experience of reading a single book on paper, on an iPhone, a Kindle and by listening to the audiobook version.

Some publications are looking beyond the standard glossy format to experiment with ideas of what a magazine can be."

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?

Interesting ideas on a "first class" experience for online news readers.