I have just been reading a short editorial piece by Patrick Tucker in The Futurist: The 21st Century Writer. It is a reflective piece on Tim O’Reilly’s “Tools of Change” conference, and focusses on publishing in an electronic age. Unsurprisingly. For the serials publisher and the journalist, there is the thought that with half the world reporting ...

A new social e-book - The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan - has been announced. A social book is one in which society - you and I - take part in the writing; in this case it is being developed on a blog. It is the latest project of The Institute for the Future of the Book: This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself ...

I came across a new and interesting blog this morning - in fact I was directed to it by Chark Blog - that deals, specifically, with ebooks. TeleRead: Bringing the E-Books Home is authored (mostly) by David Rothman, and there is now a permanent link in my BlogRoll. The blog has been around for a long time (and I should have found it before!) but ...