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Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.

Detailed website about ebook readers

More on Google and its attempt to create a huge digital library and bookshop -- the legal battle continues.

Eager to attract digitally savvy patrons and capitalize on the growing popularity of electronic readers, public libraries are expanding collections of books that reside on servers rather than shelves

Writing and reading - from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines - are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.

Sony ismaking a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions. This is really good news for self-publishing avoiding the traffic that Amazon does.

"Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options"

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", however, there is always a copyright concern around Google Book Search project.

Electronic is going to be the center of the universe, so HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide decided to publish old books into digital form.

Articles by Jean Burgess at QUT. Interesting researcher who has just co-authored a book with @joshgreen

Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.

Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.

this video is talking about the histroy of publishing.

Sony abandons its propriety technology in response to consumer dissatisfaction.

E-book is coming.

European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests that the industry needs to look at themselves.