"What if ebooks weren't just a sales channel?"

"The newly released iPhone and iPad app The Silent History collects case histories of a future epidemic of speechlessness, in the form of a serial novel released one day at a time. Each short episode is designed to be absorbed in 15 minutes and some of the stories are tied to particular locations: the reader stands within 10 metres of a dot on the map in order to unlock the section."

"SIMPLE TOOLS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING"

US numbers: "During 2011’s first quarter, 54 new magazine titles were launched, more than double the number (25) of publications that debuted in first quarter 2010."

"...this is not a plea for doing better advertising, it’s an argument for changing how we think about what we do. What those packshots reveal is a failure of imagination about what publishers do in the world..."

"But even if publishers were prepared to take a hit on the Amazon delivery costs, they have absolutely no control over how much their newspapers or magazines cost in the Kindle Store."