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Publishers Monday scrambled to fill the Osama bin Laden book pipeline, hatching plans for digital titles they could publish almost instantly. Jon Meacham, an executive editor at Random House, is assembling an essay collection about the Al Qaeda leader—titled “Beyond Bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror”—that Random House expects to publish as an e-Book next week.

Others considering a new digital work on Mr. bin Laden include Free Press, an imprint of CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster publishing arm.

The Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York, was abuzz April 4-6 with more than 1,200 publishing industry executives attending the Publishing Business Conference & Expo.

Disney Publishing Worldwide will launch The Kane Chronicles, Book Two: The Throne of Fire with a 1.5 million-copy first printing on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.

Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization that produces Sesame Street, and Impelsys today announced the launch of the Sesame Street eBookstore iPad app.

The end of a calendar year is always an interesting time for the publishing industry and perhaps never more so than the close of 2010.

As is true of so many sectors of the economy in this volatile time, much is changing in the world of book printing, but not necessarily in sync.

(Press Release) Falls Church, Virginia, February 15, 2011—Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, announced today that its PXE digital publishing platform has reduced Wiley-Blackwell's turnaround time by more than 75% for six of its medical, pharmaceutical, and physics journals.

(Press Release) Audubon, Pa., February 1, 2011—Really Strategies announced today the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats.

Let me be clear right upfront—I get very passionate about design. I love it when I see something that I consider well-designed, and I get frustrated as hell when I see the opposite.

Last week, I was fortunate enough to moderate a meeting of the Bookbinder's Guild of New York (now renamed as the Book Industry Guild of New York), billed as "The Changing Role of Production."