Amazingly interesting move, reported in the Wall Street Journal:
In a significant defection for the book industry, best-selling marketing author Seth Godin is ditching his traditional publisher, Portfolio, after a string of books and plans to sell his future works directly to his fans.
The author of about a dozen books including “Purple [...]

Publishers Weekly has introduced an intriguing new program called PW Select that will review self-published books.  They couch it in very positive terms:
We are returning to our earliest roots. PW dates to 1872, when it was first known as Trade Circular Weekly and listed all titles published that week in what was then [...]

A couple items of news that show with every new day there are major changes in publishing.

First, Dorchester switches to a print on demand model for its books.  Reported at Mick Rooney’s blog (with additional info here at Words of Advice for Dorchester Authors from an Indie Author):
Dorchester Publishing is to switch its entire business [...]

The big news today is literary agent Andrew Wylie starting a publishing imprint that will publish ebook editions of major authors.
Mr. Wylie said his new company would focus on older titles whose digital rights are not owned by traditional publishers. The books will be available exclusively at Amazon’s Kindle store for two years.
In [...]

A few interesting developments in the changing landscape.
Marta Acosta Lands Print Deal After eBook Success
For Novelist Marta Acosta a free eBook was her way to print. After not getting a print deal, the novelist decided post her YA vampire title The Shadow Girl Of Birch Grove on Scribd. It became the #1 [...]

A couple of posts back I wrote how self-publishing may go the route of underground comics – once mocked, now part of the mainstream.  Today there’s news that underground comics pioneer and legend- and one of my favorite artists in any medium – Harvey Pekar has died at the age of seventy.  If you don’t [...]

Interesting.  Former Lulu staffer starts up a digital publisher:
Anthony Policastro, a former business analyst at self-publishing vendor Lulu.com, has launched the Outer Banks Publishing Group, a new publishing venture that will focus on digital publishing and the use of social media to build an audience for POD print releases.
Outer Banks Publishing offers [...]

The Apple iPad has now gone the Kindle dtp route and now users can upload a book directly to the iBooks store without having to use a third-party distributor, like Smashwords (which I still advocate because of all of the other places it distributes to).
Via MacLife:
Apple sent us an e-mail today with details on how [...]

This seems fairly inevitable, though perhaps not as inevitable as Barnes & Noble’s entrance into self-publishing. Book manufacturer and distributor, Book Masters, is starting a self-publishing service called Auturo:
Auturo (o-tour-o)
• Fluent in many languages and media
• Covering all digital conversion and distribution needs.

An interesting development for JA Konrath which has implications for self-publishing and it also…doesn’t. Amazon Encore is going to release Konrath’s next novel digitally and in print. AmazonEncore is “a new program whereby Amazon will use information such as customer reviews on Amazon.com to identify exceptional, overlooked books and authors with more potential [...]