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Sony released a 7-inch, $399, touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi e-book reader this morning, and it's never more obvious that Amazon is up against a wall in the market segment it helped create.

The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.

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"

A short clip about the advatanges and disadvantage of E-books. but more on the optimistic side. It predicts that the future e-book market will increase.

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.

Recently I was on an airplane reading an article in the New York Times when the woman in the seat next to me leaned over and asked what I was holding. I told her it was a Kindle, Amazon's new ebook reader. I showed her how it worked, explained e-ink, walked her through my collection of titles and subscriptions, and showed how I could look up words in the built in Oxford dictionary. Her response; "That is really cool, but I prefer the feel and smell of a real book."

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

Some useful information about ebooks

Sony abandons its propriety technology in response to consumer dissatisfaction.

Another version of the ebook being released by Barnes and Noble, in association with Adobe's Digital Editions.

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

Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.

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

China has the largest online population, and Chinese writers are seeking for their copyrights on Google Book.

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the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.