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If you're involved in publishing, you would be hard pushed not to have seen IKEA's bookbook™ advert. In just a few days, the clever video has gone viral, attracting a great deal of support for its simplicity and satirisation of the digital industry.

There's nothing like a good infographic to show off statistics about how great Digital Publishing is. Here are our pick of the top infographics across the Digital Publishing industry.

Lori Colbeck's innovative idea to get readers involved in the writing process has me thinking about the future of digital publishing, its audience and innovation.

Colbeck will be launching www.booksfromscratch.com, a site that will allow authors to contribute chapters to a story, which site visitors will then vote on to dictate the narrative of the final book.

As digital publishing continues to grow and monopolise print, why are traditional processes becoming fashionable again?

We've all seen the loop before, maybe even been part of it. After the success of a new technology the preceding tech becomes fashionable again. This is happening right now with typewriters and touch screens.

The Digital Innovation meetup (kindly hosted by Innovation Enterprise) was a causal evening of networking, questions and talks, hosted in Google's tech start-up incubator 'Campus'.

We had a great time meeting a wide range of interesting people, from designers of wearable medical devices to social media gurus.