Here’s a video that is a part of the ongoing series created by Random House Books called, “Inside Random House”. These short features give all of us a small glimpse into the workings of the famous publishing house. This particular clip is titled, “Digital Product Innovation”. Here is their quote:

“The way we transform book content into digital experiences is rapidly evolving. Join some of our key in-house digital product experts as they give you an insight into how they approach their work, and highlight a few of our exciting new digital products. Tune in!”

Presented here, for your viewing pleasure, is this very excellent student documentary project that was completed in April 2012. It’s titled, “EPILOGUE: The Future of Print”, and it shares quite a bit to think about when thinking about the value of books published on paper, real books, verses the effects of modern day eBooks. It also shares some important thoughts about Bookstores and the human touch of actual Book Sellers.

Random House recently hired a company to discover the statistics on ebook readers and their habits. Then, they created this series of infographics. The data is pretty interesting and might hold a few surprises, check it out.

“Arrgghh, You kids get outta my yard!”

LOL, Ha Ha!

Over at the WALL STREET JOURNAL Website a Reporter named Nicholas Carr has written a very excellent article on the possible death of eBooks and the e-Readers people use to read them (Kobo, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony eReader & Amazon Kindle). Now, we don’t mean to be too harsh here ( ha ha! ) but for awhile now a lot of Book Critics have been saying that these new devices will ruin print media. We love books, real books, and hope that never happens.

Anyways, the article is really great, check it out, just CLICK HERE!

Pretty soon you’re gonna need to visit the HACK THE COVER Website because Writer, Designer, and Blogger Craig Mod (@craigmod) has written a very provocative essay on the future of book cover design in the digital age. This is an essay for both Book Lovers and Designers curious about where the cover has been, where it’s going, and what the “ethos of covers” means for digital eBook design.

In it, he explains about the new “function for Book Covers to stop being Salesmen” and how covers are now either regulated to just being an icon image or not even existing at all. He also shares a theory about what all this will mean for over-all book design as well. Another great thing about the article is he gives a nice shout out to a few Knopf Designers: Peter Mendelsund, Cardon Webb and Chip Kidd. Seriously, we can’t gush enough about how wonderful and important this piece is so please be sure to click HERE and check it out!

ALBERT CAMUS Book Cover Designs by Peter Mendelsund

OLIVER SACKS Book Cover Designs by Cardon Webb

HARUKI MURAKAMI Book Jacket Design by Chip Kidd