Related: Chris Meadows on the written word vs. the competition in the era of the iPad and other multimedia machines.. – D.R. Tell the truth. How many print books did you read in the last week? How many e-books? In the last month? The last year? Are you reading more or less than in the past? Share the numbers in the comment area if you’d like. Here are my answers. Print books: Two books in the last week, six in the last month, and 50 in the last twelve months. E-books: One in the last week, two in the last...

BookTrix’s David Wilk interviewed me for Writerscast---I get into topics ranging from e-books to coin-operated libraries---and you can find the results here. David did a great job. As for my end---well, I’m thinking of farming this stuff out to Thackeray. A few of David’s earlier interviewees: --Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media. --Joe Esposito and Brian O’Leary, both well-regarded publishing gurus. --Jennifer Estep, author of the novel A Spider’s Bite. --Douglas Gayeton, who wrote a nonfiction book called Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town. --P.W. Catanese, author of a children’s book called Happenstance Found and a related series....

Such great device names: Kindle. Nook. Blio. Ectaco JetBook Lite. Spring Design Alex. Txtr. JournE. Skiff. Cool-er. Plastic Logic Que. iRex. Pixel Qi. Bookeen Cybook. Foxit eSlick. Astak EZ Reader. BeBook. Not exciting enough for you? How about the oh-so-brilliantly named Sony Reader? Most of these names are flat out horrible. What were the marketers thinking? These manufacturers are not only trying to build their brands in a crowded marketplace, they are trying to create a new market for a new generation of devices against a well established device that does not require electricity to operate, has a long history...

David Wilk, owner of BookTrix. is among our newest contributors. Welcome, David! His bio is at the end. – David Rothman Publishers and independent thinkers in many areas of the book business are beginning to look at digital versus print reading in terms of the value proposition for readers, libraries and publishers themselves. The perception and behavior of consumers will determine values in e-books and digital reading environments, and publishers ignore this reality at their own peril, as I’ve learned from Mark Coker, founder of the e-publishing platform Smashwords. Evan Schnittman, who works for Oxford University Press and writes the excellent blog Black...