"While publishers might never be able to change the freebie-culture of the so-called stationary internet, Mr Döpfner says the industry is lucky that users of the mobile internet have been reared on the fee-paying culture of mobile telephony."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50031a1c-e1ee-11e0-9915-00144feabdc0.html

"Once ecommerce is possible, books are slowly abstracted from physical bookshops, laying the groundwork for ebooks . . . Loyalty and handselling, it would appear, are easily and overwhelmingly trumped by choice and convenience. In a developing country, this inflection point is a huge deal . . . But ebooks in India also present a very different opportunity to ebooks in the West . . . books in India now are still only published at the same per capita rate as they were in US in the 1950s, but they are growing fast. “An explosion” is about to occur, thanks to ebooks, but it will be in addition to, not at the expense of, printed books."

http://booktwo.org/notebook/publishing-next-india/

"Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines and sites like The Huffington Post are hunting for revenue by publishing their own version of e-books, either using brand-new content or repurposing material that they may have given away free in the past . . . And by making e-books that are usually shorter, cheaper to buy and more quickly produced than the typical book, they are redefining what an e-book is —; and who gets to publish it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/business/media/in-e-books-publishing-houses-have-a-rival-in-news-sites.html

"The challenge for ebook designers and developers is to think less about 'layout' and more about 'choreography' . . . Text can be fluid and responsive — it can reshuffle itself due to display size, orientation, or user interaction. Our job is not to dictate where words on a virtual page must be, but instead to guide them to where they should be." 

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/digital-design-choreography.html

"Almost three-quarters of tablet sales in the UK have been taken by Apple’s market-leading iPad. Apple’s nearest competitor, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, accounts for just 5.9 per cent in comparison . . . More than 3.6m people in the UK now own a tablet."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4496619e-db03-11e0-bbf4-00144feabdc0.html

"Just one third (36%) of consumers know what QR codes are for and how to scan them, despite the growing number of brands using the tool in their advertising campaigns. Only 11% of consumers have used a QR code in the past . . . Of those that have used QR codes, just under half said they found them useful."

http://bit.ly/omNiDu

"[T]he success of the iTunes Store demonstrates consumers are prepared to pay for content if it’s easily available and priced competitively . . .The next question is, of course, whether consumers are prepared to pay enough to support something that looks like the publishing industry as it currently exists."

http://cityoftongues.com/2011/08/25/are-books-dead/

"The growth of the e-book has forced a conversation in the publishing industry about which print formats will survive in the long term. Publishers have begun releasing trade paperbacks sooner than the traditional one-year period after the release of the hardcover, leaving the mass-market paperback even further behind . . . Cost-conscious readers who used to wait for the heavily discounted paperback have now realized that the e-book edition, available on the first day the book is published, can be about the same price."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/business/media/mass-market-paperbacks-fading-from-shelves.html

"@author is new feature [sic] in a limited beta release on Kindle and Amazon Author Pages that connects readers with their favorite writers and their books. It's easy: Readers can ask questions directly from
their Kindles, or post them to Amazon Author Pages."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/1000714331/