Collection of blogs and news sites discussing topics relevant to the educational materials industry.

Education News

Insider Higher Education (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/focus/books_and_publishing)
"The latest coverage on books and the scholarly publishing industry"

OER

ccLearn - News (http://learn.creativecommons.org/)
"ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources."
iterating toward openness (http://opencontent.org/blog/)
"blog about openness, open education, and open content [...] maintained by David Wiley"
OCW Blog (http://ocwblog.org/)
"Blogging the OpenCourseWare [and OER] Movements"
OER Blogs (http://oerblogs.org/)
Aggregator of blog posts about OER, OpenCourseWare, the Open Access Movement, and Intellectual Property
Open Text Book (http://www.opentextbook.org/)
"Open Text Book is a registry of textbooks (and related materials) which are open â that is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute"
Open Up! - The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning Blog (http://cosl.usu.edu/openup/)
"Open Up! is a blog dedicated to promoting open education worldwide."
OWL Institute - News (http://owli.org/news)
"The Open World Learning Institute helps individuals, families, and communities find, create and use open educational resources."

Atlantic Path Publishing - Textbook Authorship (http://www.atlanticpathpublishing.com/blog/blog.html)
"Ruminations on textbook writing and development, advice for textbook authors (questions welcome), insights on author-editor and author-publisher relations, discoveries in academic self-publishing and digital textbooks, commentary on scholarly publishing and the open access movement, and musings on news and opinion about the higher education publishing industry."
TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog (http://tstcpublishing.wordpress.com/)
"A nuts & bolts view of the daily operations of a small college textbook publisher"