GW ePublishing

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

Amazon responds to e-book spam. First Amazon became a publisher, and now an editor.  Would have been better in the other order.

Great interview with the always interesting Tim O'Reilly.

a large survey conducted by two major trade groups, revealed that sales of e-books and juvenile and adult fiction have helped the publishing industry expand.

Critics of Wikipedia are pushing it to expand beyond the traditional Western model of scholarship and authority: the written word

The French may have a model for resolving the Google Books suit.

It's all about the content. Serious readers want the steak, not the sizzle.

E-books competing with paperbacks.

Interesting article about how a former BitTorrent junkie is now perfectly happy to Netflix the movies he wants. Perhaps there's a lesson here for publishers....

By Dianna Dilworth on July 18, 2011 12:30 PM Japan really does seem to have a vending machine for everything. Toys, umbrellas, flowers and neckties can all be purchased in vending machines in Japan. And now you may even be able to buy eBooks in a vending machine one day.

By Jason Boog on July 21, 2011 3:27 PM According to Association of American Publishers (AAP) sales figures for the first half of 2011, eBook sales were up 160 percent compared to the same period last year. At the same time, both paperback and hardcover sales have sagged.

The New York Times added 281,000 digital subscribers in its most recent quarter - enough to keep its overall circulation revenues flat, but not enough to offset a drop in advertising.

I can't decide whether I'm going to be happy I can get books & the like for insanely discounted prices (yay books I can read because I *want* to), or feel like I'm looting a corpse when I go to my local Borders next to help lighten the load. Anyone else feeling a little conflicted?

Article from March that popped up on my radar now about how to handle lending e-books and first-sale-doctrine issues.

Other things that led to Borders' demise -- not just their "the Internet stole our lunch money" argument.

It's been six years since Amazon acquired CreateSpace, an on-demand publishing platform, and almost four years since they announced the free online setup for self-publishing. While four years seems like a long time in our fast-paced world, self-publishing still hasn't reached the mass audience. Even the biggest social media gurus still take the traditional route, only choosing to self-publish when they've been rejected by mainstream publishing houses.

Interesting take from a publicist here.

Name: BookLamp Quick Pitch: A book recommendation engine built on book content and writing style instead of sales data. Genius Idea: Making it easier to discover good books that haven't neared the best seller list yet.

A sad day for lovers of bookstores.  

A month or so before back-to-school season begins in earnest, Amazon has jumped into the lucrative college textbook market with Kindle Textbook Rental.