Andrew Wylie interviewed:

"Publishers need to become smaller, leaner, and they will have to learn new disciplines. The whole one-year publication process must be reduced . . . The publishers' view—a legitimate one—is that there is a greater investment on the digital side than is readily appreciated . . . The distribution of books will end up being a combination of digital and independent retailers"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576329371704096898.html

"How can so little care be given to the presentation of text on a[n electronic] page? Do publishers care, or even realize, what is happening to the texts they lovingly commission, copy-edit, and proof-read, when they enter the electronic domain?"

http://www.lunascafe.org/2011/04/typography-is-about-reading-and-so-are.html

Profile of James Daunt:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/selling-books-is-what-i-do-i-am-a-specialist-2290387.html

"Illegal downloading of e-books among British women over 35 has spiked since the arrival of Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle, demolishing the stereotypical view of internet pirates as teenagers with too much time on their hands. According to the Digital Entertainment Survey, conducted by Entertainment Media Research on behalf of Wiggin, a media law firm, one in eight female tablet or e-reader owners over the age of 35 admits to downloading 'unauthorised' copies of e-books."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/38c0f674-7ff3-11e0-b018-00144feabdc0.html

I'm currently in Argentina with the British Council, and have given a number of presentations to readers, students and professionals on digital publishing. Whilst researching those presentations I came across this great quote from Robert Darnton, librarian at Harvard University, which is worth reflecting on (the full article is an essential read as well).

"In 10, 20, or 50 years, the information environment will be overwhelmingly digital, but the prevalence of electronic communication does not mean that printed material will cease to be important. Research in the relatively new discipline of book history has demonstrated that new modes of communication do not displace old ones, at least not in the short run. Manuscript publishing actually expanded after Gutenberg and continued to thrive for the next three centuries. Radio did not destroy the newspaper; television did not kill radio; and the Internet did not make TV extinct. In each case, the information environment became richer and more complex. That is what we are experiencing in this crucial phase of transition to a dominantly digital ecology."

http://chronicle.com/article/5-Myths-About-the-Information/127105