The Humble Bundle team, which has released a number of "pay what you want" bundles of games, have now expanded into eBooks, selling several sci-fi/fantasy games for any price a person wants to pay. More...
LendInk, a legal website promoting the sharing of sharing-enabled eBooks, has been shut down by its owner. Various forms of legal intimidation targeted his family and web-host prior. More...
Apple rejected an iBook from its store, due to the book guiding readers in how to market their own novels. The book made reference to Amazon, and was rejected over mentioning a competing company. More...
Harvard's Digital Public Library of America, which hopes to revolutionize our concept of what a public library is, just earned a $1 million grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More...
The CEO of ComiXology, who partners with Marvel, DC and countless indie publishers to bring digital comics to PCs and mobile devices, says that they've served up over 75 million digital comics. More...
Amazon has announced that it has now sold "millions" of its Kindle Fire tablet along with "millions" more of its Kindle eReaders and that it was the best holiday ever for the Kindle hardware family. More...
Apple and a number of book publishers have been named in an investigation by the European Union over alleged anti-competitive pricing in the selling or eBooks. More...
Marvel Comics has announced that nearly all of their comic books will be released via digital means day-and-date with their print counterparts by March 2012, following the lead of DC Comics. More...
A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Amazon is in talks with book publishers about setting up a Netflix-like "all you can read" monthly subscription service for eBooks. More...
'Pottermore', the website from which J.K. Rowling's successful franchise of books will be sold for the first time in eBook format, has been abused by online scammers trying to make a quick profit. More...
After prices of the Amazon Kindle 3 eBook reader were slashed, the Internet rumor mill began to circulate the possibility of a new version of the popular device. More...
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has announced plans to join the multitude of authors distributing their works as eBooks. The catch, however, is that the series will only be available from... More...
Amazon's Kindle has been a runaway success for the company. Not only is it Amazon's best selling product of all time, it has even entered the mainstream with non-technology people either buying or strongly considering... More...
Amazon released its holiday sales figures and confirmed that the third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in Amazon's history. Holiday sales propelled the eReader past the previous reigning champ, Harry Potter and the... More...
Google has finally opened the Google eBookstore offering a little more competition in the ebook space. Google executives describe the store as an "open ecosystem" with millions of free and paid books from over 4000... More...
A surprise came from Amazon today, with them stating that the highly sought newest Kindle will start shipping two days early. Originally set for shipping on August 27, customers who pre-ordered the device will be... More...
The most wanted features for many in Amazon's Kindle and other eBook readers are about to become a reality. These features would be a color screen, and a touch E Ink screen. Electrophorescent (EPD) displays... More...
As Amazon fights off fierce competition on the e-reader front from Apple’s iPad and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Kindle received a much-welcomed update last week. As it turns out, according to PCmag, it was... More...
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is set to launch its digital book store in late June or July. Google has been talking about entering the digital book world for quite some time now.... More...
Following the publication of an open letter last Saturday where Macmillan's John Sargent revealed that Amazon had removed all of their books, Amazon has announced the return of Macmillan titles to their stores. The dispute... More...
TechCrunch has confirmed with Amazon that they are, in fact, giving select Amazon users the ability to get a Kindle with no risk involved. If you purchase the Kindle through the promotion and, within 30... More...
In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing process. This new technology changed the world forever. One specific task was made incredibly easy — the spreading of written words. eBooks take us to the... More...
Android has made a big splash in the tech sector. The open source platform has been adopted by many cell phone manufactures and, as announced by Spring Design, is also being used on an... More...
Sony is looking to take on Amazon by opening up its platform and will start to publish content in the Epub format according to informationweek.com. Sony said that they hope to be selling content... More...
Oh yea! Microsoft handing out free stuff, count me in! Although this will only be interesting for people who code in Visual Basic, it's still worth a mention. Get a focused, first look... More...
Could the new TabletPC be the form factor that finally ushers in wider acceptance of e-books? It's raising hopes among digital publishing and media executives who gathered here at a TabletPC digital publishing conference. ... More...