This $0.99 text editor is free through April 2. According to 9to5 Mac: It’s got auto-save so you don’t have to worry about losing your document while multitasking, it supports in-app email and puts useful new virtual keyboard controls at your fingertips. Think the arrow keys for precise cursor positioning and convenient cut, copy and paste buttons. Oh, the Home and End buttons as well. The souped up keyboard works as advertised and I’ve found it incredibly useful. Thanks to BookofJoe for the link....

From the press release by media research firm knowDigital: To attract a large number of users and generate substantial subscription revenue, The Daily – the news-based application released by News Corporation in February exclusively for Apple’s iPad™ platform – will need to overcome a few obstacles with iPad owners who consume news online. These obstacles include the perception among those with the greatest interest in news that The Daily’s content is lacking, that superior content is available elsewhere online for free and the expectation that apps are purchased through one-time transactions, as ...

From The Bookseller: Random House c.e.o. Gail Rebuck has said she expects digital to become a "significant" part of its business in 2011 .... RHG expanded its e-book programme to include 25,000 titles worldwide by the end of 2010. In the United States, Bertelsmann said as much as half of first week fiction sales were now in digital. ... Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the link....

May 16 will be the trial date for this important case on on fair use.  As Publishers Weekly says: While the high-profile, visionary Google settlement has captured the attention of the publishing industry at large, e-reserves is popular, common practice that has long vexed publishers. The practice takes its name from the traditional library “reserve” model, where a professor might make a limited number of physical copies of articles or a book chapter available for students, generally subject to permission, and, in theory, with reproduction fees paid to publishers. In the digital world, however,...

Received the following email from Bill Smith and thought it was worth repeating: Publishers' fixate on DRM to prevent unauthorized sharing -- oh, sorry, piracy, arr -- of their books. Because that's the major problem the industry faces.Yet, a story at Ars Technica notes that only 9% of Internet users are actually "pirates." So the 91% of the US Internet population that's willing to play by the rules and get their products legally is stuck with DRM-crippled books, the hassle of authorizing devices, hoping the company selling those DRM-crippled books doesn't go out of business because then...

From the press release: Thanks to the Apple iPad and new tools like iBuildApp.com, digital publishing is easier than ever. Silicon Valley based startup iBuildApp recently added an iPad publishing solution to their suite of iPhone templates designed for the non-coder. iPad publishing has created new revenue streams for businesses who can publish materials without printing and shipping costs. Create your own iPad magazine, catalog, or book app. iBuildApp solution has templates, is automated, and totally free to create and update. See it here: http://ibuildapp.com/ipad_self_publishing/. The solution also delivers a good experience for the reader. "We...

An EFF press release trumpets the introduction of a bill in the California state legislature that would require a warrant or court order for access to sensitive reading records of both print and electronic books. The Reader Privacy Act of 2011 (SB 602) is backed by the ACLU and the EFF, and brings book-related privacy matters up to par with existing privacy and free speech safeguards in the state constitution and other state law. As Californians increasingly rely on online services to browse, read, and buy books, it is essential that state law keep pace and...

Betabeat has interviewed magazine design icon Roger Black, who over the last few decades has been responsible for redesigns of a number of well-known magazines (including Rolling Stone, New York, the New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. To say that Black is “famous” in the magazine design scene would be like calling Michael Jackson “well-known”. Black says that he is “flabbergasted” by how many people have bought iPads, “and even more so how the publishing industry thought it was some kind of magic pony that would save them.” But even so, Black seems to be adapting to the...

Diane Duane has posted an update to her blog on the error correction issue with Young Wizards e-books. She contacted her editor, who contacted the digital editions department at her publisher, and she’s received a response from them that they have developed a new error-correction process that looks specifically for commonly-occurring OCR errors and eliminates them at the XML level (so that corrected e-books can be generated in multiple formats from the new source material.). They would like to run the books through this process. Then, Diane can go back through and look to see what errors still exist, which...

This is interesting. Got the following email from Alexey Klestel: I'm Alexey Kletsel, a publisher from Israel. My partner and me in bounds of Kletsel Digital Publishing (Jerusalem) have made an interactive book with Adobe DPS tools. The book entitled Torah from Zion, it is a new translating into Russian from ancient Hebrew of the Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament) + new written comments. We will be glad to a mention of Torah from Zion on TeleRead blog. Here is the iTunes link http://itunes.apple.com/app/id426557262. By now the Genesis book is ready to download....

According to Publishers Weekly, Other Press is raising its royalty for ebooks to 50%.  Currently the royalty rate stands at 25%. The publisher says that the 50% rate will go into effect once the advance has been earned out.  In addition they are raising the base rate from the 25% mentioned above to 30%....

The article will appear (TBA) in Information Technology and Libraries from the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). Author: Nancy M. Foasberg Title: Humanities Librarian Affiliation: Queens College, City University of New York From the Abstract: To learn whether e-book readers have become widely popular among college students, this study surveys students at one large, urban, four-year public college. The survey asked whether the students owned e-book readers and if so, how often they used them and for what purposes. Thus far, uptake is slow; a very small proportion of students use e-readers. These students use...