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There's nary a moment of quiet in the world of web publishing. The broadcasting industry confers about digital strategies, while newspapers work to increase revenue through mobile apps, and Google plays in the book publishing space. And that's not all...

Our web publishing updates continue to split the focus between online and print publishing. Often, it turns out that they influence each other, as well as impacting the other industries stuck in the middle (read: advertising!)

Chances are if you didn't know anything about Web publishing a few months ago, you do now. News about the industry is hard to escape, and its growing popularity will continue as long as the economy spirals downward. The last few weeks have proved productive for those interested in expanding and promoting their presence on the Web.

What iTunes has been to music, Google hope its new deal with the U.S. publishing industry will be to books.

Hailed as a key moment in e-publishing, Google will offer readers an opportunity to view free samples of titles — even those out-of-print or hard to find — which they search for using Google and get the option to buy more. Google will pay royalties to the Book Rights Registry, which will distribute them to authors and publishers.