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If you've been using the Microsoft Store as your source for e-books, you may sad to find out that the company is discontinuing the book section starting today, but you can read your books until July.

The author behind massively popular works such as the Mistborn The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson, has expressed that he is willing to work with CD Projekt Red for games, even for free.

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited is now available to download from the Apple App Store for $2.99 a month. Up to four users can access content across compatible tablets, phones, e-readers, and smart speakers.

During its WWDC 2018 keynote today, Apple announced new versions of Stocks, Voice Memos, News, Home, and more, using its new platform that will bring iOS apps to its Mac PCs in 2019.

Microsoft is hoping to get more of its customers buying books from the Windows Store with a new deal. It's offering buyers in the US a free $5 gift code with the purchase of any book from the Store.

If you're an avid book reader and have upgraded to the Windows 10 Creators Update, you'll be happy to know that now you can download books from the Windows Store and read them in Microsoft Edge.

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited offers access to over a million titles in its book library and also thousands of audio titles from Audible. The service is now making its debut in Australia.

Google has finally announced Family Library, which will allow users to share apps, games, movies and more with up to six family members. It will roll out in various countries over the next few days.

In its latest round of layoffs, Microsoft has reportedly decided to discharge its entire editorial team at Microsoft Press, citing "adaptations to business needs" as a reason for the decision.

Amazon announces a price hike for its minimum spending amount for orders to qualify for free shipping. The price hike will put Amazon's free shipping requirements in-line with other major retailers.

Amazon, the online mega-retail store, is making itself known in the physical world with a new retail store that focuses on what made the company what it is today: books.

While Bill Gates was not a speaker at TED 2015, he was invited to attend and created a list of books for attendees. Naturally, the list of books focuses on health, the world and business.

Samsung has added yet another device to its range, joining forces with Barnes & Noble on the co-branded Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK, which is like a standard Galaxy Tab 4 but with some NOOK software on it.

A new listing on the Microsoft Careers website shows that the company is hiring for people to work on an upcoming Windows "groundbreaking interactive reading app" for books, magazines and comics.

Apple has published its Best of 2013 list of apps, music, movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts in the iTunes Store as picked by the editors, plus lists for the 2013 best-selling in each category.

We take a look at I Write Like: a site dedicated to helping you identify who your writing style most resembles. We also take some of Neowin's authors to the site to see what it makes of their works.

A thread posted on Reddit has managed to gain an advance copy of a book for a person diagnosed with terminal cancer, in the event he is not able to read it at the official release.

Walter Isaacson's hotly anticipated book has finally hit shelves. Although he authorised it, Steve Jobs never asked to read a word of his biography. Does it live up to the hype? Neowin takes a look.

Google's major content and feature update for its Android Market app has apparently started to be made available for people who own Android-based smartphone and devices. Engadget is reporting that it has received word from...

Google has just unveiled a major overhaul to the Android Market for mobile phones running Android 2.2 or higher. The updated market place will allow users to rent thousands of movies and download the latest...

If the title on this Amazon.com book (Culture of Pakistan: Culture of Pakistan. Pakistani literature, Urdu, Books and publishing in Pakistan, Pakistani poetry, List of Urdu language poets, Music of Pakistan) seems suspicious to you,...

Google is preparing the shake-up the online book world, having announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it plans to infiltrate online book stores in the first half of 2010. The new service will be...

The US Department of Justice has filed its concerns over a deal between Google and several book publishers which would see the creation of what could be the world's biggest virtual library. They have urged...

Half a million books are to be made available for free by Google on Sony's e-book reading device, according to the Associated Press. This is the first time Google will have made it's vast collection...

Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers' Union (Syndicat de la librairie française), accused Amazon...

Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home, a project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 to help understand the cause of diseases, as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. Nearly 700,000...