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Vatican & Oxford libraries get 3.2 million to digitize 1.5 million pages of some of their oldest holdings!

Small publisher stands up to Amazona

10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs

Those were awesome, though I was a little surprised to not see Snoop Dogg's new book that can be...ahem...smoked: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2012/4/3/rolling-words-snoop-doggs-smokable-book.html

hahaha! that's unbelievable!

Agency pricing for e-books is challenged by DOJ.

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.

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."

Part of a Seattle Times series on Amazon.

Includes other fun stats, and a word cloud!

Chip Kidd at TED, in all his Chip Kiddness, talking about the importance of book design and his involvment.

Via Joshua Gans, Harry Potter fans can now get their favorite books in digital format. But not from Amazon or the iTunes bookstore. Instead, the exclusive source of Potter ebooks is J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website where you're able to get them in formats that run on all major e-readers and tablets.

Thoughts on copyright law from the IP counsel at Google  - Bill Patry.

Article on how things like spatial context help people remember things (such as a location of an article in a newspaper), compared with a digital reader that tends to convey a sense of limitless or infinity.