So this author is angry that publishers are angry about digital:

In 2009, the customer is king. Unfortunately for the literary world, a few publishers have decided to treat their best customers like crap.

Last week, Simon & Schuster, Hatchette, and HarperCollins announced they will delay the release of leading e-books until several months after a hardcover version of said book is released. Essentially, this means that power-readers–who love books, and buy a lot of books, and tell their friends which books they should get, and influence purchasing decisions far and wide by spreading their opinions through Facebook and Twitter and blogs, and even shell out several hundred bucks for an e-reader so they can buy whatever they want impulsively whenever they want it, because they love books that much–cannot get the latest hot book releases on the device of their choosing.

That is a massive mistake.

…which made Moby angry enough to respond:

Readers and publishers alike need to stop envisioning books as just “content.”  In many ways, the digital revolution makes the back-end invisible and therefore hard to quantify, monetarily.  Does anyone ever think how expensive it is to run the massive Google server farms?  Or the enviromental impact of the billions of cell phones, ipods, and e-readers (not to mention computers), that last for only a couple years and are not recyclable?  (For more on that, see this previous moby post and an amazing 60 minutes documentary).  Publishing works the same way.  A book is not just content and production.  We’re not the enemy here, we’re just trying to feel our way forward to an unfamiliar future–and in an unfamiliar present.  I’m not saying you have to agree with all of our decisions, but a little informed support please?

And elsewise, there’s this piece supporting the resistence against Amazon, this one on Spain cutting ebook taxes, and this piece saying blogs have killt Kirkus. And that’s all you’re getting from me today, you hour-sucking time vampires.