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Don’t waste your money. The basic Kindle is the only Kindle you need
Are the expensive Kindles tempting? Absolutely. But you must resist reaching for your wallet, as the basic Amazon Kindle is all you're likely to ever need.
Google Play Books update adds ability to upload your e-book collection
There was no big announcement but Google has issued a major update to Google Play Books, allowing you to upload your purchased book collection. We think Google may have something even more exciting in store down the road.
Australian bookseller bribes readers to give up their Kindles
One Australian bookseller has decided to fight back against Amazon, offering a monthly promotion where people can trade their Kindles in for 50 AUD.
Apple launches iBookstore in Japan, goes up against Google, Amazon and Rakuten
Apple launched its iBookstore in Japan on Tuesday. With millions of people in the East Asian nation owning iPhones and iPads, the new market is sure to be a lucrative one for the Cupertino company.
And now, here’s a second lawsuit against book publishers over e-books
It's Amazon's turn to be named in an anti-trust lawsuit over e-books; Three small booksellers are suing the online retailer over the way e-books are coded.
And now it’s just Apple vs. D.O.J. over digital book price fixing
Macmillan has finally settled its lawsuit with the Department of Justice against Apple and the book industry over illegal e-book price fixing.
Kobo touts millions of e-reader sales in 2012, despite lack of exposure
You may have never heard of Kobo, but last year it sold millions of e-readers and it plans for yet another successful year of sales and performance on the horizon.
Goodbye paperbacks and paper cuts, Captain Obvious reports e-books are the future of reading
E-books have a new target audience: Kids who otherwise may not be that interested in reading, according to a new study released from Scholastic publishing.
Writer dumps publisher, launches self-publishing venture, over e-book royalties
One British author disagreed with the current rate of royalties paid to authors from digital sales. So he created a new publisher to try and create an alternative.
Apple responds to DoJ e-book lawsuit: We did nothing wrong
Apple says that it did not collude to fix the price of e-books — it simply helped break Amazon's "monopolistic" stranglehold on the publishing industry, while also offering a superior product to consumers.
Penguin halts Kindle library lending: Will more publishers disable the feature?
Penguin Group has asked that all its e-books be pulled from Amazon's new library lending service, but hasn't fully explained why it's pulling out of the program.
Rewriting the rules: How Amazon could cut e-book prices by cutting out publishers
Amazon is luring authors to abandon publishers and offer books through Amazon directly. Will the move disrupt traditional publishing...or at least lead to cheaper ebooks?
Our Kindle Fire impressions and why Amazon is destined to dominate
Amazon's Kindle Fire is a fine device, to be sure, but Amazon's real genius lies in its broader plans for world domination.
Saving cash on college textbooks: E-book rental services compared
Recently Amazon launched a Kindle textbook rental service to compete with several other services designed to save college kids some cash. Here's a look at how e-textbook programs compare.
South Korean school textbooks will be all digital by 2015
South Korea is taking the lead on technology and education, promising to spend $2 billion to convert its entire school system's curriculum and texts to a variety of digital formats by 2015.
Teenagers love digital possessions, researchers find
Teenagers are already as comfortable with digital objects as they are real-life physical ones, says a new study.
Apple policy kills e-book underdog, iFlow Reader
Apple's 30 percent cut on in-app purchases helped lead to the death of the iFlow Reader app and its development company, BeamItDown Software.
Amazon debuts Kindle e-book library borrowing service
Amazon has jumped on the e-book lending bandwagon with a soon-to-launch service that will allow Kindle users to borrow books from 11,000 libraries in the US.
‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ becomes first e-book to sell 1 million copies
Digital copies of best-selling novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" has become the first e-book to pass the 1 million sold threshold.
Princeton Review’s SAT Score Quest iPad app helps students prepare
The Princeton Review has jumped on the digital education bandwagon with a new app aimed to help students prepare for the SAT.
Amazon will undercut Google Marketplace prices with Android AppStore
A few leaked images reveal Amazon may challenge the Android Marketplace with discounted app pricing.
One in four college textbooks will be digital in five years
Behemoth backpacks be damned! One report says that textbooks are becoming a thing of the past and e-textbooks are on their way.
Real page numbers part of next Kindle upgrade
Amazon is preparing a Kindle software upgrade that will finally add matching page numbers to actual book copies as well as some new community features.
Google Editions e-book store to launch in 2010
Google Editions, the search giant's first attempt at an e-book store, will launch in 2010, reports say. Details on the store remain sketchy.
Forget the Nook, the Kindle’s competition is the iPad
A new survey shows that consumers are beginning to favor the iPad as an e-reader. Will it eventually dethrone the Kindle?
Amazon Kindle users, you can lend e-books and read the newspaper
Amazon will soon allow users to lend e-books to one another. In addition, newspapers and magazines are coming to Kindle apps in the near future.
Survey: 4 pct of households own an iPad, a third are app-less
A survey finds that iPad users spend more time on their content, but a third haven't downloaded a single app yet.