From Wired Campus, comes a report of an e-book design where users can ‘turn the screen’.
Comments on the article suggest that readers are underwhelmed at the possibilities presented by researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of California at Berkeley in a prototype dual-display e-book reader. But the researchers state that “Our users’ [...]

The Live Search team at Microsoft recently announced that they are winding up their Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects.
“Given the evolution of the Web and our strategy, we believe the next generation
of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model
for the search engine, consumer, and content partner. For example, [...]

Random House Audio has announced that “it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” (from Boing Boing)
Random House Audio  provides downloadable audio to popular Random House print titles, as well as titles from other publishing houses.  Their audio is available through iTunes, Audible and eMusic.
“In the [...]

Future of the Book is working with Digital Library Federation on “what could become a major iniative aroudn the question of mass digitization..”. The goal of the project “is to shed light on the big questions about future accessibility and usability of analog culture in a digital, networked world.”
They have run invited brainstorm sessions in [...]