So many Rumors and I am way behind. Here are a few.

Was interested to see that, in the midst of all the gloom and doom about newspapers, Amazon has launched a wireless Kindle DX with a tabloid-fomat for ease of reading digital newspapers and magazines. Apparently, The New York Times and The Washington Post are planning to launch pilot editions for the Kindle DX this summer. As they say, the South will rise again!
See—“The Rise and Rise of e-readers,” by Michael Fitzpatrick. May 7, 2009, BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/8037058.stm
And watch for Cris Ferguson’s upcoming article in ATG, June 2009 (v.21#3), “The Demise of the Print Newspaper.”

And, speaking of the NY Times, see this recent article from the New York Times --
Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries Input on Price,” by Miguel Helft. Apparently Google has signed an agreement with the University of Michigan that gives some libraries input over the prices that might be charged for the digital library that could be the outgrowth of the proposed book-scanning settlement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/technology/companies/21google.html
See also – “Google to Give Libraries Say on Prices for Scanned Books,” by Nancy Gohring, Computerworld, 5-22-09. http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=6CF2D981-1A64-67EA-E4C691C6FE23AC3A

The amened agreement is reproduced here. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gwyaLgbe76jYT67hjn_0es...

Also worth looking is the excellent ALA Website on the Google Book Settlement. http://wo.ala.org/gbs/

Y’all. I have lots more, but grandson Trifon is awake and I have to go … Have a good Memorial Day. And I will try to be back tomorrow.

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only. The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will move to online only in April, although it will also introduce a weekend magazine. John Yemma, The Monitor’s editor, said that moving to a Web focus will mean it can keep its eight foreign bureaus open. Despite its reputation, the Monitor's circulation had slipped to 52,000 from 220,000 in 1970. Under the new system, reporters will file stories to the Web and update them severall times a day plus write longer pieces for the weekend magazine. "We certainly know that newsmagazines are cratering," Mr. Yemma sais. "We're under no illusions about it being a growth vehicle." See "Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition," by Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times, October 29, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29paper.html?hp
And many thanks to John Riley for pointing this out!