The millions of blogs on WordPress.com will now have a clean mobile theme turned on by default, removing most of the formatting and making the sites easy to load on a phone. WordPress bloggers may want to opt-out of the new setting; not everyone likes how the first mobile themes selected by WordPress looks.

As widely expected, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.

Book sellers are making the case that people are reading more because of e-books.

Stuart Moulthrop (2005) argues that we should define hypertext as the basis for a new version of general literacy

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.

Increasingly these days you hear the words Google and monopoly in the same sentence. There is no shortage of fears that the search ...

Premature results for the weekend's state elections published on social networking site Twitter have raised fears about how much influence such updates could have on German voters. Anyone found guilty of leaking the exit polls could face a fine of up to 50,000 euros.

Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

Facebook's privacy changes, made in response to Canada's privacy commissioner, could have the biggest impact on outside Facebook application developers.

Sony and Amazon are poised to take opposite sides on the Google books settlement.

US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.

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Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...

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.