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Is the ebook market becoming saturated? As more companies invest in digital technologies, there seems to be growing concern that returns won't be what initially expected.

E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.

Lulu is a print on demand, self-publish book, ebook portal that makes possible for everyone to become a "Published author"

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.

Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service.

Abstract This paper argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society. It defines the concept of e-book and describes some aspects of e-book technology. By focusing on book production processes, the paper examines what probable consequences the development of e-books and a global network economy will have for publishers and book industries. E-books, along with other electronic formats, will trigger major changes as the digital products and distribution channels will force the logic of the network economy on the book publishing industry.

e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?

The Google book settlement is far from being resolved, as objections persist both from private business, and even government agencies.

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.

Digital authors don't have to wait for the publishing industry anymore.

The ebook market expand to children's books. It is a great business market.

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"

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.

An invitation to a New York event suggests Barnes & Noble may introduce its e-reading device on Oct. 20 with a feature other devices don't have.

Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with web browsers, from mobile phones to desktop computers, challenging Amazon's Kindle e-book reader which forces buyers to buy books through the company