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"Vook is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform. Quickly create, edit, style and publish your eBook-no special software required. You can use Vook to build an eBook out of a Word document or an existing ePub file. Once you've built your eBook to your satisfaction, you can distribute to our Vook Store - where we pay you 85% of the net royalty of any transaction - and, if you'd like, pay a one-time, $99 fee to distribute your eBook to Amazon, BN, and iBooks  through our Vook account. For eBooks we distribute for you to Amazon, BN and iBooks, we pay you 100% of the royalties we receive back from the distribution channel."

Calibre can download entire websites and convert them to any eBook format, meaning you can read your favorite news articles or blogs on practically any eBook reader, from the Kindle to the Nook to the Kobo and everything in between. Heck, it even has easy built-in connectivity for iPhone/iPad app extraordinaire Stanza.

Are ebooks going to go mainstream with Amazon becoming a de facto distribution monopoly? Or is a marketplace characterized by many different players and options looming still on the horizon?

"Hundred Zeros is a collection of best selling eBooks that are currently free on Amazon. You can download and read any of these books on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, Kindle or inside your favorite web browser. The list is updated every hour."

Still in doubt about whether to get an Amazon Kindle? Not fully convinced that these new ebook reader devices have the form factor and usability traits you are expecting? John Blossom has taken the time to go out and borrow an Amazon Kindle from his close

Comparison of top ebook rental services

The future of ebooks.

Text to Speech (TTS) software allows you to have text read aloud to you. This is useful for struggling readers and for writers, when editing and revising their work. You can also convert eBooks to audiobooks so you can listen to them on long drives. We've posted some websites here where you can find some good TTS software programs and online tools that are free or at least have free versions available.

It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's hom

Differentiated by a stunning form factor (the size of 8.5 x 11-inch paper), the Plastic Logic reader features a big readable display. Yet it's thinner than a pad of paper, lighter than many business periodicals, and offers a high-quality reading experienc

The "Kindle 2" retains most every square inch of white that the debut shows on its face, and it appears to have been squeezed to thinner proportions and spread out top to bottom to be a touch longer than the original. All in an effort, it seems, to give u

If you'd like to see how you can read long-form articles from your favorite blogs on your Kindle, there are several options. You can use the feed aggregator service KindleFeeder, which delivers 12 of your selected blogs in Kindle-friendly views straight to your device if you have the free, non-premium service.