GW ePublishing

What happens when you extend your brand/clout too far? Scholastic is taking heat for promoting non-book merchandise to kids, with video games causing the biggest uproar.

For Google News publishers, getting high placement in Google News can be great. Most publishers would love to see prime time placement of their stories on the main Google News home page, but many settle for ranking well in Google......

PW talks about O'Reilly's TOC conference and where the publishing industry may be heading in the near future. What new business models will emerge? Who will be the big players?

Something from the music industry. Many of you may have heard about iTunes getting the labels to agree to DRM-free music in exchange for a new princing structure. But things are not going so smoothly in upgrading to DRM-free music. Looks like iTunes could use a solid analysis of its system architecture to see where the bottleneck is.

Not sure if someone else already posted about this, but Kindle could find itself in the middle of a copyright battle over audio rights.

How data has evolved... very interesting!

Here's another free online class from HP Learning Center, this time on Web 2.0.

Not that we all don't know what an e-book is (scary thought if we are in this program and don't!), but I just thought it was interesting that HP Learning Center is offering a class about e-books. Seems with the rising popularity of the Kindle, every has something to say about e-books.

Interesting how a decision to make a logo the same on both their Web site and newspaper could cause people to start talking.

Book publisher uses XML to make books available in different fonts.

HarperCollins announced this morning that it is closing its Collins division and integrating its operations within different businesses in the General Books Group. As a result, Steve Ross, president and publisher of Collins, and Lisa Gallagher, senior v-p, and publisher of William Morrow, are leaving the company. In addition to closing Collins, CEO Brian Murray issued a memo today saying that despite efforts to avoid layoffs, a reduction in the workforce will be necessary.

New Kindle feature infringes on audio rights?

This is a funny take on designing the "Kindle 3"!

The third annual Webware 100 Awards program launches today. Nominate your favorite Web apps now. Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware.

Information on formatting books for the Amazon Kindle.