Price, speed, and convenience will probably determine how information that is carefully argued and presented in book form will be distributed.

For several months, all eyes in the world of books—authors, publishers, librarians, and a great many readers—were trained on the district court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Denny Chin, because a seemingly small-scale squabble over copyright looked likely to determine the digital future for all of us.

Who says books are going to be replaced by ebooks? The millions of Twitter(TM) users now can save their "tweets" as a permanent printed and bound BOOK!

There will always be festivals around their creative use -- storytelling in its many forms and nonfiction in it many categories. The word "book" may need to be reconsidered sooner rather than later.

How do we marry traditional book publishing to various online and digital media in a way that makes sense to readers?

What ultimately determines the publishing success of a book? It’s the bookstores that now control the national publishing industry.

Many will recall two remarkable books by Shelly Mecum: God’s Photo Album and this time last year, The Watercolor Cat, with Peggy Chun. The astonishing and moving Peggy Chun saga did not end there.

A recent trading day resulted in a 27% jump in Amazon.com (AMZN) ….In short, Amazon.com is selling an enormous (but secret) number of Kindle e-book readers.

A breakout can be the result of mysterious magic of word-of-mouth, or an outstanding performance. Breakouts often look obvious in retrospect, but they usually require extraordinary luck or skillful strategy.

Houghton will be providing a computer-based teaching system it developed with Microsoft Corp. that will connect teachers, students, and administrators. It’s a radical shift away from the classic textbook publishing model and represents an industry transformation, as technology supplants textbooks.

For every publisher the initial “P&L” (Profit & Loss) statement arouses anxiety, self-delusion, and a classic never-ending tension between editorial instincts and marketing experience.

The basics haven’t changed that much at the publisher’s end. They have changed drastically at the bookselling end, the proverbial tail that wags the dog. The dog is the Publisher, or the Author, depending on your point of view.