If you’ve been following PC for any amount of time, you’ll know where we stand on the whole digital vs. print debate (and for those who haven’t , we <3 ebooks).  Geekdad has provided some interesting tidbits on the debate, with “Six Months with an eBook Reader” firmly on the digital side and “Ode to Books” firmly for print.  Where do you stand?

Sponsored by Quimby’s, Renegade Handmade and Renegade Crafts Fair, and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and hosted by Columbia College Chicago, the Chicago Zine Fest will be celebrating one of the most ground breaking, cutting edge sectors of the publishing industry at Columbia College Chicago this weekend. For more info on their readings, workshops, and exhibitors, visit their website at chicagozinefest.org.

I love everything about the Great Books Foundation.  Check out this video about what they do and their annual conference that will be held April 20-May 2 (more details can be found on our events calendar).

Great Books Unbound from The Great Books Foundation on Vimeo.

The most striking thing from PW’s article on e-book design today?  This quote from Andy Hughes, vice president of production and design at Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group:

“Preparing a good e-book file, he says, is ‘like making a gourmet meal out of leftovers.’”

What on earth does that even mean?  Do the words that make up the book somehow become stale between print production and electronic production?  Publishers attitudes about e-books in general seem to baffle me (see the article below for more of this), but this brings me to a new level of confusion.