Digital publishing is becoming a central theme and focal point for several industries. This finding results from a consistent body of evidence: the enrichment of the supply of electronic books, the emergence of computer-type digital tablet, the maturation of educational computing projects, particularly in developing countries .

The relevance of the questions that are raised by these developments is illustrated in the immediate present, for the following events:

A study day

The third BookCamp , a day of workshops devoted to digital books, will be held in Paris, September 25, 2010, the premises of the canteen .

"The idea of ​​this day is to offer half-day experiments and thoughts about the book and digital. A series of "hands on" to better share the impact of digital innovation in the book chain. An opportunity to meet and exchange among librarians, booksellers, publishers, authors, critics and readers with the slogan, "all participants". "

A manual for producing digital books

Written by James Simmons, the manual " Reading and Leading with Sugar "(version PDF draft) aims to democratize the production and reading e-books, including the Sugar learning platform of Sugar Labs , in the context of extension of the OLPC educational project, in which more than one million children in developing countries now have access.

Digital publishing in the South

An invitation to tender (in French and English ) coordinated by the International Alliance of independent publishers on the attainment of a study on digital publishing in the countries of the "South" has been opened. Project proposals are to be submitted to the organizer for August 29, 2010, the selection committee will deliver its opinion on 20 September 2010.

Clearly, the synergies of this theme of digital books with digital library projects communities Sugar / OLPC around the world, and in particular with the digital library projects that OLPC France is involved (such as our partnership with the Malagasy editor Prédiff, which resulted in the first book in digital Malagasy youth ), are obvious.

This theme is indeed seen in the context of the upcoming release of the tablet XO 3 , for which he will find content to offer OLPC deployments, especially in the Francophone world, Africa, the Caribbean, the space Indian Ocean and elsewhere.