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An interesting post about the future of self-publishing and "literature."

Perhaps soon audio books and e-books will be combined, and parents will no longer have to read to their children! Interesting that their is a publisher out there adding/expanding print.

DRM sanity at HBR.

Negative customer feedback prompts a speedy response by Amazon.

The clash between what e-book retailers are doing and what the e-reading audiences want.

Serialized fiction makes makes a digital format return.

Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

Beautiful photos of people reading

mental health break

Several universities have recently tried a new model for delivering textbooks in hopes of saving students money: requiring purchase of e-textbooks and charging students a materials fee to cover the costs. A recent report on some of those pilot projects, however, shows that many students find the e-textbooks "clumsy" and prefer print.

While several colleges across the country are pushing electronic textbooks, touting them as more efficient and less cumbersome than regular textbooks, students are reluctant. E-textbooks still account for only 9% of textbook purchases, says Student Monitor, which researches college student behavior.

Documentary from the BBC, hosted by Stephen Fry, about the Gutenberg press.

Global initiative to share physical books.

Evernote has teamed up with Moleskine to create a notebook that clips into Evernote via your camera phone, bridging the gap between written and digital notes...and it comes with cool stickers.