Chip Kidd’s TED March 2012 talk on the design of book jackets/covers. Fantastic. Funny. Witty. Insightful.

Grant Snider, an illustrator and cartoonist, draws the weekly online strip “Incidental Comics” for the New York Times. In this edition he takes a whimsical look at ‘The Book of the Future.’

Ubyu is a service aimed at those who want to create and publish their own high quality bespoke books.

The Economist reports on Amazon's brief withdrawal of API access to Lendle: "The brief outage demonstrates a fundamental truth about the internet: if you don't own the data you need to run your business, you're dependent on the policies—and whims—of the parties that do. Jeff Croft, Lendle's founder, says he will not make that mistake again."

When it drops helps to keep track of the latest movie, book, music and game releases. A handy web app by Ryan Sims and Nick Chapman.

Similar to MagCloud... only for books. "Make your own book. Make it great."

Godin examines the cracks in the current corporate publishing model. Identifies avenues he wishes to explore when it comes to methods for spreading ideas and engaging with people. He wishes to figure out who his audience is and take them where they want and need to go.

Daniel Wideman of Lulu on how to use their service to get your eBook into the Apple iBookstore.

Jason Santa Maria: "A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers, by the indomitable Jeremy Keith. If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one."

Nick Bilton reports for the New York Times: "A recent blog post by Craig Mod, a self-titled computer programmer, book designer and book publisher, offers a thoughtful and distinctive perspective on the move of books from paper to interactive devices like Apple’s iPad ... Print is dying. Digital is surging."

Liza Daly conducts a comprehensive review of the iBooks application and how it implements the ePub format.

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Mark Boulton’s 'Designing for the Web' is now available to read for FREE online. I splashed out £5 last year for a UU copy of the PDF and only got as far as the first chapter. I wonder if I'll read any more of it now that it's on the interwebs and not hiding away in a Mac OS X subfolder of a subfolder.