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The issues of privacy, free speech and a feral press divided the panel at the Index on Censorship debate at the London School of Economics on Tuesday evening. Chaired by Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville (right), the event celebrated the launch of the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Privacy is dead!

No longer purely a vanity project, self-publishing is enjoying a boom, thanks to electronic readers.

Cengage Learning has signed an agreement to acquire Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic's digital and print school publishing unit, which includes the National Geographic Science series, a core elementary science curriculum, National Geographic Explorer! Cengage, with brands including Brooks/Cole, Delmar, Gale, South-Western and Wadsworth, and NGS have collaborated since 2007 to produce English language learning materials for kindergarten through adult education.

If you love Facebook so much that you'd like to see your content on your coffee table, then we've got seven superb solutions for getting your Facebook profile and photos made into real-life books.

The SAGE Connection blog has a lot of useful info on publishing and associations. This one touches on social media and using QR codes.

1 Letter to Series Authors Actively Writing For Harlequin The landscape of digital publishing continues to evolve at a fast pace and Harlequin is at the forefront of this evolution. In 2007 Harlequin was the first publisher to simultaneously publish print and digital editions of our entire frontlist.

GP Taylor is one of self-publishing's success stories. The former vicar sold his motorbike to fund the first print run of his children's novel Shadowmancer; its popularity, driven by the author's tireless campaigning, led to a publishing deal with Faber & Faber and a career as a New York Times bestselling author. What used to be seen as a last resort is fast becoming the most successful trend in writing.

Publshers?  We don't need no stinkin publihers! Well if your name is JK Rowling you don't.

Looks like we've all got some reading to catch up on. I wonder how many of these are available as e-books?

When HP's webOS-based TouchPad makes its debut on July 1, it will ship with a new way for users to discover various apps for the platform, webOS Pivot. Pivot is basically a digital publication designed to help users discover different types of apps and content and to give developers more exposure. Every month, HP says it will publish Pivot, and that it will "include visually driven editorial pieces, columns from notable guest writers sharing their perspectives on digital culture, feature stories focused on applications around specific topics, and in-depth reviews."

This is a disclosure statement from the JOHO blog. Do you think it goes far enough, or perhaps might it be detailed to the point of C-Y-A-neurosis?

Thoughts about use of disclosure statements in the blogosphere to establish trust with readers.

Tim O'Reilly and others have called for codes of conduct in the blogosphere, and this is some of what that call has yielded. My problem with it, however, is that it seems to be very, very general -- which is a great starting point, but individual blogs may have other things come up.

How much should an eBook cost? To give publishers and authors some guidance, we've collected spirited defenses of seven different eBook prices-choose the price that works best for your writing.

Some agents are turning to consulting, acting as expert advisors for writers who might not have been able to get a traditional book deal.