Our three topics are:

1. The Sony surge
2. Tools of Change Conference at the Frankfurt Bookfair.
3. The book app economy

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #16 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).

Here are links to some of the other things we talk about in episode #16 of The Pub Call podcast:

• Book publishing at South by South West (SxSW).
• David Levithan
• Debbie Stier
• Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone panel with Stephanie Troeth, Book Oven (Hugh McGuire, Peter Brantley, Andrew Savikas, Kassia Krozser)
• A Brave New Future for Book Publishing panel with Kevin Smokler, CEO BookTour.com (and a cast of geniuses)
• Dinosaurs Dancing: Digital Experiments From Traditional Book Publishers: Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks and Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch
• Clint Greenleaf
• Two new devices from Sony at new prices
• Sony’s ePub Announcement
• Om Mallick Calls Sony’s Move a Win For Adobe
• Sony’s Library promotion with OverDrive
• Speculation about Sony Reader with Wireless on August 25th, 2009
• Tools Of Change Meets Frankfurt
• O’Reilly TOC Conference 2010 Call for Participation

• Publishing Perspectives
• Hannah Johnson and Edward Nawotka
• Funny Thing Happened on Way to Kindle by Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown
• Scroll Motion
• Andrew Savikas: The App Store and The Long Tail Part 1 and Part 2
• CourseSmart Launches iPhone app
• Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming? by Danah Boyd
• Happy Friday Book Lovers by HarperStudio
• Nicholson Baker on the Kindle at the NewYorker
• Yup, It’s Him: A Pynchon Mystery Solved at the Speakeasy Blog at WSJ
• Stats & Research on Mobile Use Around the World
• iBird Explorer Backyard is the bird app in iphone commerical that I think Andrew was talking about. (like Shazam)
• The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Book Publishing  by Mike Cane at ebooktest.blogspot.com

Mark didn’t make any mistakes this week, which is a first in 16 episodes but if you have feedback send us an email at feedback(->at->)pubcall.com or leave a comment. Thanks for your time.

The music featured in The Pub Call show is by The Jive Ass Sleepers.