The group that created the ePub eBook standard now admits that the format really, really sucks and is totally inappropriate for formatting tomorrow's book, a fact that many of us have known for years. But we're not sure the folks who created the ePub standard in the first place are the best ones to figure out how to fix it -- and maybe the best solution is to let the marketplace come up with some solutions.

It was a startling admission from a working group of the International Digital Publishing Forum charged with establishing the parameters of ePub 2.1.

Today is the day for all good Apple fanbois to queue up and put in their orders for the new iPad, as Apple will begin taking orders for the new tablet at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time, as we potentially enter the next generation of eBooks.

Amazon announced this morning that its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP), previously limited to publishers and authors in the United States, is now available to publishers and authors around the world, supporting works in English, German and French.

This will make our lives easier. The good folks behind the Caibre eBook-management tool added support for the Barnes & Noble Nook in the latest release, allowing users and publishers an easy migration tool for documents.

Scribd, which so far has specialized in the online publication of user-generated content as well as public-domain works, has been building an online storefront in conjunction with Simon & Schuster and John Wiley and will offer titles from those catalogs for the Kindle -- but they're not saying how.