Food, and literature? Yes. Here’s a fun one from Flavorwire (“How to Eat Like Your Favorite Authors”). It is quite a list, with...

I didn’t quite satisfy my curiosity on this topic from yesterday’s post, so here’s a bit more on cell phone novels, and the how and why....

“The novelty of what he has been doing is two-fold. Firstly, this is a new medium with fresh possibilities, requiring unorthodox...

Here’s something I just discovered and am filing away under Potentially Interesting: PublicBooks.org. Reminds me of Edge (which is so...

An ebook is and isn’t like a book. The reading experience follows different mechanics, by the very nature of the technology involved...

The new Great Gatsby trailer has touched off quite a few impassioned responses already (see: Vanity Fair, “Baz Luhrmann’s Flashy Great...

Facebook wants a trademark on the word “book”, because … why not? Ars Technica (“Facebook asserts trademark on word “book” in new user...

How much this will shift the competitive ebook/tablet landscape remains to be seen; from the New York Times: “Microsoft Deal Adds to...

Here’s a timely Tax Day post from The Daily Beast: “‘The Pale King’s’ Depiction of IRS Gets Fact Checked“. David Foster...

And here’s the money quote from the Matt Groening interview: OK, why do the Simpsons live in a town called Springfield? Isn’t that a...

And while this isn’t the very first combined effort of book publishing and media companies (examples — Simon & Schuster, owned by CBS;...

“How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden.” With some discusion about  Seth Godin’s (author of Linchpin, Purple Cow, and...

What happens to words when they migrate from the page to the screen? For an insightful discussion on the topic, I would recommend one of...

Did you see this news from Wired? “Behold, It Folds” — “Ever wish you could fold your tablet in half and stick it in your pocket? Well...

Lots of books are published every year. When it comes to science books, ebooks fills that gap between too-long-for-the-magazine/too-short...

Abstracts are now being accepted for possible inclusion in an anthology on “The Adventures of Tintin.” Proposed essay topics should...

Some big news in the print/digital world of books, from the New York Times: “After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses”...

What is Jellybooks? It reminds us a bit of some of the other creative book daily deal ideas we’ve seen — such as BookPerk.com —...

Literature! and Science! Scientific American shares “10 Novels That Will Sharpen Your Mind” featuring an interactive image exploring some...

We’ll see what the longer-term effects might be — but the immediate consequences appear to involve a Google eBooks vs. Kindle Deal of the...