As Paul just said, Wired’s Chris Anderson has proudly reported that the iPad edition of Wired Magazine has gone on-line at last, and the version for other tablets is coming soon. This is the actual print magazine Wired, not the Wired News site that contains original stories and reprints from the magazine. The magazine was affected by Apple’s 11th-hour ban on third-party development environments. Instead of creating one version for all platforms, Adobe had to create a separate Objective-C-based version of the magazine to meet Apple’s requirements. While I haven’t bought it myself—I’m saving my money for...

That's the title of the Editor's Letter by Wired's Editor Chris Anderson (well the fantastic part isn't, but it should be). You can find the full letter here. It says, in part: The arrival of the tablet represents a grand experiment in the future of media. Over the next few months, we’ll integrate social media and offer a variety of versions and ways to subscribe in digital form. We’ll learn through experimentation, and we will watch closely as our readers teach us how they want to use tablets. There is no finish line. Wired magazine will be digital from now...

Dithering. It’s not just for graphics anymore. Apple has changed its mind over an app rejection again. I reported a couple of days ago that Apple had rejected Republican congressional candidate Ari David’s app for political mudslinging at his opponent, Henry Waxman. It turns out that, surprise surprise, Apple has changed its mind and allowed the app through. “When this issue was brought to our attention, we reviewed it further and realized we made a mistake,” said Trudy Muller, a spokesperson for Apple. “While we don’t approve apps that attack individuals, that...

Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks; Brian Defiore, Defiore & Co, literary agency; Madeline McIntosh, Random House; Brian Redmain, Harper Collins Raccah: living deep indigital jungle. We are now at the transformation of the book. More content published than ever before. This has led to a devaluation of content and a plethora of voices. Fragmentation of media makes it very hard to get authors heard. To get an author heard now takes an enormous amount of time and work. Of 26 bubbles on a chart of what publishers do, only two of them relate to printing and distribution. Publishers have...

Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch; Bob Kohn, Royaltyshare; Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks; Scott Lubeck, moderator, Book Industry Study Group Raccah: we must experiment with business models, different approaches, royalty structures. Unclear that this should be called an agency model. Remember that Google Editions will enter the market soon and this may cause more model changes. Clearly in transition and evolving. Wants to test this model with all sorts of different businesses because this is very new and don't how it will work out in different segments and markets. Google Editions will be acting as a real wholesaler in their model. ...

Paul Biba isn’t the only one who gets to cover events this week. This weekend, I’m going to be up at Kansas City for ConQuesT 41. I’ll be covering their panel relating to e-books and the future of publishing, and also trying to interview as many of the guests as possible (including Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance, and Toni Weisskopf of Baen who I previously interviewed via e-mail). Are there any questions you would like me to try to ask one of the guests (or dealers, etc.)? Are you in or going to be in Kansas City...

Jeff Bezos was forthcoming about some aspects of the Kindle’s near future at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. He said that the Kindle will continue to be focused on reading, not become a multipurpose device like the iPad. He also said that a color kindle is a long way off—color e-ink is not ready for prime-time, and the color LCD reading experience is not as good as e-ink. (Though all the people buying books on the iPad already seem to have few problems with it.) It’s odd Bezos should be so dismissive of LCD given that...

The Adobe Reader PDF viewer is now available for Android (requires version 2.1 or higher). I don’t use Android so I don’t know how well this reader works versus whatever PDF viewing capabilities already existed for the platform, but if any reader wants to send in a review we would be happy to run it! Speaking of Android, apparently a Verizon employee left a next-generation Motorola Droid Shadow in a corporate gym. Gizmodo has the details and some tech specs (though they didn’t get to buy and disassemble this one). With a 4.3” screen and 16GB...

Anyone own a Sony Daily Edition? If you'd like a free Blue M-Edge Latitude case then be the third person to email me. You can find my review of the Latitude here. It's a great case, especially for traveling. Many thanks to the M-Edge people for sponsoring this series of giveaways....

Yesterday, I reviewed Cory Doctorow’s novella “Anda’s Game”, about gold-farming and labor unions in MMOs. Today I’m going to look at Doctorow’s latest young-adult novel, For the Win, that continues this theme. As with almost all of his works, For the Win can be downloaded for free from Doctorow’s website (or see the end of the article for direct links to the eReader version I compiled). Doctorow’s last couple of novels have been largely hit or miss for me—Little Brother was a bit too didactic, and the characters in Makers were a singularly unsympathetic bunch. But since Doctorow...

This is not directly ebook related, but it is too good not to share. Raul Lemesoff is an Argentine art-car artist and he has taken a 1979 Ford Falcon that used to belong to the Argentime armed forces and turned it into a "Weapon of Mass Instruction". I has about 900 books and he travels through Buenos Aires and through remote parts of Argentina offering free books to all. Thanks to Book Patrol for publishing this....

Ed McCoyd, Association of American Publishers; Ronald Schild, MVB Marketing; Bob Kohn, RoyaltyShare Inc. McCoyd: pirated books originate in 3 ways: scanned, commercially published ebooks with security broken, production files. Don't know enough about impact on publishers' bottom lines. GAO report concluded that there is no reliable way to quantify impacts. Textbook publishers say they have been able to connect massive returns of textbooks when a pirated has appeared online. Magellan Media studies find that there is not an impact on the titles they looked out that were pirated. However convinced that sheer number of uploaded and downloaded...