GW ePublishing

"Yet as new old books become available - listed, for instance, on Manybooks.net - you get the puzzling sense that books are leaping almost randomly from their shelves into the digital realm. " Is there any logic to the way books are chosen for digitizing?

Lauren Myracle withdraws her nomination after a screw-up by NBF. Sets a poor precedent, NBF.

Amazon move one step deeper in the territory of publishers. Publishers should be very very scared, as they rethink their value-add for authors.

...You can't quite do this with eBooks/eReaders.

In the spirit of Halloween I share with you: "Frankenfont"

Interesting opinion piece from an author who has written both ebooks and books, and crowdfunded a book, and done all sorts of neat things from a publishing angle, calling for a "back to the content" sort of movement. Not sure what I think of this, but thought it was worth pushing out to you all since I know for a lot of us, a love of books is what got us into this field to begin with.

Federal legislation would give states the authority to make online retailers collect sales tax.

Interesting commentary on the announcement of the NBA '11 awards. I was personally surprised at some of the books that weren't on the list as well.

Pearson offers free, cloud-based learning management software hoping it will eventually lead to increased e-textbook sales.

Superheroes born digital?

The combination of text, video, and archival media is the perfect medium for the new Jacqueline Kennedy volume

An interesting take on where publishing is going.