A frost is coming to publishing. And while the much ballyhooed death of the industry this is not, the ecosystem to which our book makers are accustomed is about to be unmistakably disrupted. At hand is the twilight of an era most did not expect to miss, but will. For now, the stifling timidity many editors and agents are predicting ...

The New York Times this morning has the second in reporter Motoko Rich's series on the future of reading, focusing this time on video games and whether they are making kids more or less likely to enjoy reading books. The most interesting part of the piece concerns kids' series like Scholastic's The 39 Clues, Book One: Maze of ...