It never fails: As soon as I send the Online Publishing Update off for editing, I find a few things I should have put in it. (At least I'm consistent...)

So here are a few things that should have made it into the OPU, but didn’t.

Amazon to Release E-Book Reader with WiFi, Newspaper E-Edition Downloads
Amazon is releasing an e-book reader equipped with Wi-Fi, so readers can purchase e-books without having to go to a Web-connected computer, download and transfer the book. The Wi-Fi connection will go straight to the Amazon.com e-books site.

Here’s the important part: you can also download digital editions of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal every day. CNet’s News.com reported, “The company is also said to have forged agreements with somewhere between 50 and 100 newspaper publishers, in addition to the daily New York Times and Wall Street Journal features. Kindle owners are expected to be able to select from a long list of publications for automatic download.”

A quick search for “Kindle” and “e-book” on Amazon.com this morning yielded no previews of the device.

SPTimes, CQ Launch Political Fact Checker Site, Widget
The St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly jointly launched a new fact-checking Web site called Politifact.com. The Web site puts candidates’ claims through a “truth-o-meter” and rates the claim on a scale. The newspapers also created their first widget, allowing other sites to post the fact checker. See Politics West for an example of the widget in action.

In only semi-related news, I will be out of the office with very limited e-mail access next week. American University Prof. David A. Johnson will be filling in on the Online Publishing Update Monday and Wednesday. There will be no OPU Friday, as NAA staffers will be sleeping off tryptophan-induced comas.

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