Warren Adler

Author

Nevertheless, the technology addiction cannot be ignored as a competitor to reading. Indeed, some prognosticators may be right in citing the eventual rise of the tablet as a device of choice for everything under the techie sun, including reading.

C. M. Rubin

Blogger and author, 'The Real Alice in Wonderland'

It isn't my imagination. My children's backpacks got heavier with the weight of those textbooks over the past few years. And I don't think the weight of student backpacks are just my concern. I heard a rumor that even tiger moms are advocating for lighter school backpacks.

Arianna Huffington

I'm delighted to announce the publication of HuffPost's fourth e-book, OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who's Behind It. What's Next. -- the result of three months of near obsessive reporting by our staff on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Victoria Foyt

Author, Screenwriter, Actress

I'm no Luddite, and yet I draw the line when it comes to reading e-books.

Karen Dionne

Author, Freezing Point, Boiling Point

If the Internet seemed slow last Sunday, it might have been because around the world, literally millions of new e-reader owners spent a fair part of the day downloading e-books.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Psychic and author

What will our sensory memories be of books in the digital era? As I sniff my Kindle, I only get a sense of something blocking air, a plastic odor -- like a straw that you've been biting on.

C. M. Rubin

Blogger and author, 'The Real Alice in Wonderland'

The publisher delivers a single file. With that file, Ingram Content Group will deliver the content globally in a variety of ways, whether as a printed book or as a digital file which will ultimately create books for every digital platform around the world.

Harry Freedman

London based Career Adviser and Author http://www.thecareeradvicecentre.com

Handwriting is in decline. But writing is on the increase. Paradoxical isn't it? Think about it. How often do you pick up a pen these days? I bet it'...

C. M. Rubin

Blogger and author, 'The Real Alice in Wonderland'

Many independent book stores are already redefining their role for the future by finding new and compelling ways to differentiate themselves from online retailers.

Holly Robinson

Author, 'Sleeping Tigers' and 'The Wishing Hill'

My husband gave me a Kindle for my birthday. At first I protested. As a writer, avid reader, and patron of indie bookstores with cats curled on floral armchairs, what did I want with this devilish contraption?

Mark Coker

Founder, Smashwords

Amazon yesterday launched a broadside against competing ebook retailers when it introduced a new program that requires authors to remove their books from competing retailers.

Karen Leland

Marketing and Branding Consultant/Best Selling Author

I still find that many small business owners are confused about the part eBooks play in their overall marketing plan. Here are the four most common questions I get asked about using eBooks to build a small business's brand.

Jesse Kornbluth

Editor of HeadButler.com

If you are a big time Amazon customer, this is a very sharp device. Because that's what, at bottom, the Amazon Kindle is: an Amazon consumption enabler.

C. M. Rubin

Blogger and author, 'The Real Alice in Wonderland'

Write, edit, design, publish, market, sell your own book and book rights with highly experienced publishing staff assisting you? The self-publishing opportunity has changed significantly.

C. M. Rubin

Blogger and author, 'The Real Alice in Wonderland'

If you've ever been to one of the 6 extraordinarily beautiful Daunt bookshops in London (a tourist attraction in travel guides) you will understand why people call James Daunt one of the all-time great booksellers.

Claudia Ricci

English and Journalism, University at Albany-SUNY

I wouldn't dream of stripping my clothes off in public. So why in God's name would I let my as-yet-unfinished novel, Sister Mysteries, dance naked in public?