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Terry Jones gets help with his Kindle during an ebook session at the Mcgovern-Stella Link Library.

The E-Book Wars: Amazon Versus the Rest. Publishers, distributors, booksellers, and authors weigh in on Amazon's ever-increasing presence and influence in the electronic publishing world.

AEL Data launches Lektz An innovative portal for publishers to sell, distribute, protect and manage their eBooks online.

Do you have a novel you want to get out into the world of e-publishing? Do you use your tablet while cooking, but it gets all messy and gross? If so, I've been trying a couple of products you may want to check out.

Love it or hate it, Microsoft Word is one of the most ubiquitous apps around. If you write anything on a computer-Mac or PC-you're going to have to have some interaction with MS Word.

The death of publishing has been heralded for years now as the means to circulate content became easier and more readily accessible with a computer or mobile device.

Still, it suggests the traditionally conservative publishing industry is learning how to do business in the Internet era.

NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuzz Productions , New York's premier web and mobile development studio, debuted FuzzEngage , a vertical focused on the creation of interactive advertisements for tablet devices.

SAY Media announced that Orion, its social publishing platform, has been selected the Best Publishing Platform by theA DigidayA Awards , which recognizes the best in publishing technology innovation.

This is the second part in a two-part essay about digital publishing. You can read part 1, "The Fragmented Present," here.

Each Lake Woebegone is a fictional Minnesota town on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion described as "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." Lake Woebegone may be fictional but the tendency of people to overestimate their own positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate ... (more)

Archant, the community media company and publishers of the EDP, Evening News, Great Yarmouth Mercury, Lowestoft Journal and a host of weekly newspaper titles, today announced senior changes within its Archant Anglia division, which manages print and digital publishing assets across East Anglia.

My story about the Nebula Awards weekend went up in the Monday PW Daily and can be found here .

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The digital publishing start-up The Atavist has landed a $1.5 million investment from a prominent slate of Silicon Valley investors.

Each In the digital age where brands and advertisers are vying for the ever-shrinking attention spans of consumers, obsessing about the technology is a mistake.

The American University in Cairo has announced the appointment of Nigel Fletcher-Jonesas the new director of AUC Press.

On Friday, an association of e-book publishers-including major companies such as Harper Collins, Random House, and Barnes & Noble-issued a statement suggesting an outline for a new "Lightweight DRM." This proposedA Digital Rights Management standard could increase interoperability of books on hardware like e-readers. Don't get excited yet-the ... (more)

The Cleveland Museum of Art announces its pilot project in digital publishing, British Portrait Miniatures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

With Harry Potter fan site and e-bookstore Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder.