Interesting news from Maclife:
Are you a budding author? The next Stephen King? Or an author currently looking to cut out the middle man as you rollout your own books? It looks like your time has come -- Apple has released information on self-publishing for the iBookstore!
...Apple sent us an e-mail today with details on how someone could sign up to sell their own books in the iBookstore. Their books would have to adhere to these criteria: each one would need to have a 13-digit ISBN, be in ePub format, validate against epubcheck 1.0.5, and contain no unmanifested files. If you are not familiar with any of these Apple suggests working with their aggregation partners.
A growing number of different outlets, providing different eBook formats for different devices. Publishers will soon be looking for a way to consolidate these various streams into one publishing pipeline, you'd have to think.