Schilt Publishing has announced the upcoming exhibition and book launch of Michelle Sank?s photographic series The Submerged at Hotshoe Gallery, London. The Submerged was produced within Mid-Wales in the hilly and coastal areas around Aberystwyth, and portrays “a grittiness evident in the geological and architectural fabric of the place”, the publisher says. The exhibition opens tomorrow and runs until the 29th at Hotshoe Gallery, 29 – 31 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8SW. The book, distributed by Thames & Hudson, retails for £29.95, with a limited edition - including a print - available for £200.

The Photographer’s Guide to the Nikon Coolpix P500 is a complete guide to the operation and features of Nikon’s superzoom. It explains all operations, features, menus, and controls of the Coolpix P500 camera in clear language, with more than 200 photographs. The Photographer’s Guide to the Nikon Coolpix P500 is available now in PDF format for download priced at $9.95.

Blurb has announced a new range of personalised notebooks. The high quality, high street look notebook is simple to create, easy to buy,with the delivery taking up to 7 days, it will be on your doorstep in no time. The creation software is free to download and notebooks start from £5.00.

Mastering the Nikon D7000 by Darrell Young is a new title from Rocky Nook. This book guides readers through the camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments; colour illustrations; and detailed how, when, and why explanations for each option. Every button, dial, switch, and menu configuration setting is explored in a user-friendly manner, with suggestions for setup according to various shooting styles. The 496-page volume is available in printed form for $34.95, or as an e-book for just $14.95, through the website below..

Photo Productions - a London-based company that produces Premium Photobooks for weddings and special occasions - have reduced the price of their pre-designed sample albums by up to 70%. Three sample sizes are available, starting at £15.00 for Pocket Book samples, rising to £95.00 for a 12x15”. For more information, visit the website below.

Filled with 156 high-quality panoramic photographs from Kolor’s 2011 Panoramic Photography Competition, Rocky Nook’s Panobook 2011 is a beautiful, 224-page hardcover book that opens to 24 inches across two pages. “This collection of images provides an introduction to the best of today’s panoramic photography and serves as inspiration for the interested photographer,” the publisher says. “Laymen and photographers alike are certain to be delighted as they embark on a tour of the world.”

Blurb has announced a new integration that enables Instagram users to quickly and easily turn their photos into professional-quality books. The Blurb integration automatically increases the resolution of Instagram camera phone images if necessary, making them suitable for a 7x7-inch square-format book. To create a book, users simply sign into their Instagram account on the Blurb website. The most popular image, based on the number of Instagram “likes”, is added to the cover. The most recent photos are then autoflowed into a book that can be previewed and purchased or edited using Blurb’s online bookmaking tool, Bookify. Pricing starts at under £7 ($11).

Your Creative Mix: Growing Your Photography Business through Creativity and Collaboration by Corwin Hiebert is a new e-book published by Craft & Vision. The book, available in Portable Document Format (PDF) “focuses on the unique business and marketing challenges faced by emerging and established vocational photographers”, as the publisher puts it. The e-book is available for download for $5 from the website below.

Website: Craft & Vision

The Freelancer’s Online Marketing Blueprint is a new, free e-book from PhotoShelter. The 53-page e-book includes step-by-step practical tips on how to generate inbound website traffic through SEO, social media platforms and blogs, building a successful leads list for email marketing, and the benefits of pay-per-click advertising. The guide also includes insights on optimising websites to increase conversion of visitors to paying clients, and how to efficiently manage time and allocate marketing budgets. The e-book can be downloaded from the website below.

Oliver Cameron Publishing has announced the release of a free PDF Wedding Posing e-book with 50 images, each accompanied by a short description. The book is a continuation of the gallery contained in the highly popular print book Wedding Photography - A Guide to Posing (pictured). It is sized to fit on an iPad but as it is a PDF, it is viewable on virtually all computers and smart phones, and can even be taken to weddings.

Website: Increased Knowledge

Five years ago, New York based writer and musician Chris Kennedy discovered the lost, never-before-published colour photo collection of popular 1950s Cleveland radio DJ Tommy Edwards, and decided to write a book on the find. The richly illustrated book, published by the Kent State University Press, is now available for purchase. The 264-page hardback includes more than 200 colour photographs from the collection that consists of over 1,700 Ektachrome slides of rock-and-roll legends, country music superstars, Hollywood celebrities and “hopeful unknowns”.

Website: 1950s Radio in Colour on Amazon

Marketing Fine Art Photography by Alain Briot is now available in the United Kingdom. The author is a leading contemporary landscape photographer and teacher, who offers practical, up-to-date, tried and tested marketing techniques to fine art photographers eager to learn how to sell their work to make a profit. “Briot’s approach is based on offering quality not quantity; and offering something unique, rather than something that is mass-produced,” the publisher says. “Though directed toward selling fine art, this method can be applied to other products.” The 320-page book, which debuted in the US last month, sells for £27.50 in the UK.

The VueScan Bible is the missing manual for both new and experienced users of VueScan. VueScan is one of the world’s most widely used software interfaces for digitizing film and prints on flatbed and film scanners. The VueScan Bible costs $34.95.

PhotoShelter today released the newest e-book in their ongoing series of business and marketing resources for photographers, The Photographer’s Guide to Selling Like a Pro. “Through a series of in-depth interviews with veteran salesmen from across various industries, this e-book offers solid sales advice and concrete tactics, giving photographers an in-depth look at how to succeed in sales using the proven strategies of the pros,” says PhotoShelter’s Deborah Block. You can download the e-book free of charge from the website below.

Phaidon Press have just released Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs, a large-format limited book that includes 165 of his most evocative and famous photographs. Born in 1950, Steve McCurry is one of the world’s leading photojournalists, who attained international recognition in the mid-1980s when he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the Afghan war and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. His portrait of a young Afghan refugee girl, which appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine in June 1985, is widely regarded as one of the most famous photographs of the twentieth century. The new collection features this and many other iconic images by McCurry, including Boy in Mid-Flight (shown above courtesy of Phaidon Press), Flower Seller, Boy at Ganesh Chaturthi Festival, Monk at Jokhang Temple, and Dust Storm, Rajahstan, India. Click through / scroll down for a video of Steve McCurry sharing the story behind the last of these photos.

Marketing Fine Art Photography by Alain Briot is a new title from Rocky Nook. The author is a leading contemporary landscape photographer and teacher, who offers practical, up-to-date, tried and tested marketing techniques to fine art photographers eager to learn how to sell their work to make a profit. “Briot’s approach is based on offering quality not quantity; and offering something unique, rather than something that is mass-produced,” the publisher says. “Though directed toward selling fine art, this method can be applied to other products.” The 320-page book sells for $44.95.

The Suffering of Light is the title of an upcoming exhibition of key photographic works from the career of American photographer Alex Webb. Presented by the Magnum Print Room, the exhibition opens on 17 June, runs until 29 July 2011 and showcases twelve of Webb’s best known images. The Magnum Print Room is located at Magnum Studios, 63 Gee St, London, EC1V 3RS. Additionally a 204-page book entitled, The Suffering of Light: 30 Years of Photographs by Alex Webb is available from Thames & Hudson for £45.

Mamarazzi: Every Mom’s Guide to Photographing Kids by Stacy Wasmuth is a new title from Wiley. This book reveals the techniques professionals use to not only capture childhood memories, but the singular nature of a child’s personality, the publisher says. Topics covered include techniques for capturing genuine expressions instead of staged smiles, photography basics including composition, lighting, exposure, focus, and white balance, creating effects with different lighting techniques, and more. The book is available now at £19.99 / €24.00.

Photoshelter today released Starting a Photography Business - the latest free e-book in their ongoing educational series. The new guide shares case studies based on the experiences of the last six College Photographer of the Year winners as well as guidance from leading photography business experts. Topics covered include writing a business plan, creating a business entity, the cost of doing business, pricing considerations, getting an agent etc. Starting a Photography Business is available for download at the website below.

The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro 2 is a new e-book from Luminescence of Nature Press. This PDF guide, written by photographer Jason P. Odell, includes detailed screen shots and examples of every control in the plug-in, as well as how and why you use them. It also covers workflows for users of Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, and Nikon’s Capture NX2. In addition to the PDF manual, Dr. Odell has also produced a set of companion videos which reinforce the concepts described in the eBook. The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro 2 is available from Luminescence of Nature Press for $24.99, or $44.99 together with the Mastering Silver Efex Pro 2 video companions via direct download from the website below.