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In June DC Comics announced that it would reset all its continuing series and reintroduce their heroes, as if they were appearing for the first time. The gambit was risky: if it failed, it could alienate longtime readers and send an already declining industry into a tailspin. But so far the heroes seem to have won the day. In the last five weeks, since the first of these 52 renumbered or new series were introduced, the sales of DC comics have increased by leaps and bounds.

Quietly, the Austin Public Library system began offering e-books for download last month. It's part of a nationwide trend, as online retailer Amazon rolled out library-borrowing capabilities for its Kindle device in September. And while some libraries have been lending e-books for some time, the Kindle's entrance promises to open them up to an even wider audience.

There's a case to be made that Amazon's new browser is more important than its tablet. The second-day stories on Amazon's Fire tablet have started to zero in on the implications of a less-heralded—and more unexpected—announcement: The special-purpose browser Amazon's software engineers have designed to speed up Web searches on their new mobile device.

What if there was a way to raise money for the book you want to write without having to have a publisher? Jim Kukral did just that.

The Gold Ink Awards People's Choice Award winner will be broadcast live from the Gold Ink Awards banquet at Graph Expo in Chicago via Ustream on PIworld.com.

All of the Gold Ink "Gold" Award winners will be on display at this year's Gold Ink Awards and Hall of Fame Banquet on Monday night. That evening, one of the 46 Gold Ink "Gold" Award Winners on display will be awarded Gold Ink's People's Choice Award.

We now have new details about the vaunted Amazon tablet. Here are the key points:

    * Priced at $249;
    * 7 inch touchscreen;
    * New user interface based on Android with baked-in media stores;
    * Coming out this fall.

It's going to be a blockbuster.

Editor's note: Huffington Posts' Anis Shivani interviews publishing visionary Richard Nash. Check out Richard Nash's Guest Column in the September/October issue of Book Business, coming soon!

I've been intrigued by Richard Eoin Nash since the time he ran the indie press Soft Skull Press in the 2000s. His new enterprise is Red Lemonade/Cursor, a reader/participant-oriented publishing venture hoping to take full advantage of the social potential of new media. I recently had the opportunity to talk to him via email about the future of publishing in a rapidly changing landscape.

John Locke, the New York Times bestselling author, has entered an exclusive agreement with Simon & Schuster..

This blog is the second in a series of six blogs, each including one of the six traps to avoid when negotiating large-quantity book sales

Amazon's recent ad-supported Kindle isn't just the future of e-readers. It may also be a look at the future of how people buy electronic gadgets: with a reduced price, subsidized by advertising.

Since April, Amazon has offered an ad-supported version of its Wi-Fi-only Kindle -- "with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers" -- for $114, or $25 cheaper than its standard Kindle. More recently, it has added an ad-supported version of its 3G wireless-enabled Kindle for $164, also $25 cheaper than the standard version.