There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an attractive price.

Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.

Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year

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

Are print books really about to disappear, overtaken like horse-drawn carriages in the age of Detroit and the Ford Model T? Truth is, nobody knows. Nobody ever really knows what the future is going to hold, no matter how sure they sound in their predictions.

Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing process. This new technology changed the world forever. One specific task was made incredibly easy - the spreading of written words. eBooks take us to the threshold of a possible shift in the way we read books.

Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems.

Trust is the new black

Stephen King has published two works in internet. The first was "Riding the bullet", which sold around 500,000 copies online. With that success, King started the publication of a second work online, The Plant, with the idea of selling each chapter at $1. But he decided to suspend the experiment, because it didn't work as he thought it might.

A new report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings.

"For the past five hundred years, humans have used print - the book and its various page-based cousins - to move ideas across time and space. Radio, cinema and television emerged in the last century and now, with the advent of computers, we are combining media to forge new forms of expression. For now, we use the word "book" broadly, even metaphorically, to talk about what has come before - and what might come next."

Here is the link to the presentation of the article "Cutting the trees of knowledge: social software, information architecture and their epistemic consequences"

http://www.slideshare.net/sibila/cutting-the-trees-of-knowledge-2060196

Info.com is a search engine that searchs simultaneously in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and About. It can help us to save some time in web search

After a long hiatus, online bookseller Amazon is back trying to encourage us to read in a new way. Its Web site now features this description of its Kindle reading device: "Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available." This good news for consumers comes after the first batch of the devices sold out in just six hours late last year.

SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access)/ROMEO is a database of publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies

This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher. A scholarly revolution is underway. It enables you to get a greater return from your research. All you have to do is share it.

Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography.

"We wanted to ask a different question," said Clifford Nass, a Stanford University cognitive scientist. "What happens to people who multitasking all the time?" In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nass and Stanford psychologists Anthony Wagner and Eyal Ophir surveyed 262 students on their media consumption habits. The 19 students who multitasked the most and 22 who multitasked least then took two computer-based tests, each completed while concentrating only on the task at hand.