By Colleen T. Reese Today, SmallDemons, a book discovery and literary culture app, quietly released what can ultimately only be described as the Pinterest for books. We’ve written about SmallDemons before, but for those of you unfamiliar with the application, SmallDemons aggregates cultural references made in books and uses them to aid in book discovery. Users contribute references, passages and images, as well as rank and create topics in a user-generated, user-controlled, wiki-format. These references make up what is called the "Storyverse," or the universe of books, so to speak. The Storyverse is categorized by Books, People, Places, and Things. So instead of a behaviorist...

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On October 18 and 19 in Boston, a nonprofit group known as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will be presenting a forum that will take a close look at the "key issues surrounding e-books from a variety of industry, library, scholarly, and consumer viewpoints," according to the forum's page on the NISO website. The name of the forum: The E-Book Renaissance, Part II: Challenges and Opportunities. If you happen to work in the digital content field yourself—especially if you're an e-book publisher or a librarian who works closely with e-books—this seems like the type of event that could very well be worth the cost...

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