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Amazon started life as a book retailer, and as a book retailer they made books cheaper. Then they were pioneers in the e-book industry where they made books cheaper. Their recently announced plan to give readers free e-book copies of books they buy in physical form doesn't make books cheaper per se, but it does give readers greater value for their book-buying dollar. This is all great stuff. But not everyone agrees. Emily Gould complains that "When ebooks and pbooks are bundled, the ebooks are sold at a loss. That's authors', publishers' and, associatively, non-AMZN retailers' loss" and "frustrating we have to keep explaining that ebook production is not free. digital objects are not made by elves."

Like Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, a new dual-screen device has two faces to match its double identity: It promises to be an electronic book reader and a netbook at the same time."> text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Derik- are you insinuating that this new e-reader wants to kill Batman and destroy Gotham!?!

Borders joins the e-book revolution with a new e-reader and e-book site created with a Canadian partner. The bookstore chain is entering a market crowded with other e-reading devices.

Though e-books are rising in popularity, print remains the foundation of Americans' reading habits. Most people who read e-books also read print books, and just 4% of readers are "e-book only." Audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits overall, while fewer print readers consume books in other formats.

In 2007 the JISC national e-books observatory project was set up to undertake market research to help e-book publishers, aggregators, libraries and funding bodies understand the behaviours of e-book users and to assess the impact of free at-the-point of use course text e-books on traditional print sales to students

With ad revenue and audience on the decline, newspapers look to e-readers as a possible new revenue path. But early signs show that "win-win" deals between publishers and e-reader developers are both elusive and nonprofitable.

Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 -- perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices.

Interesting report on adopting e-textbooks.  Important to remember how early we are in the development of e-readers and that we have few texts developed explicitly for e-readers.

Two new e-book readers: The PocketBook 301 and the PocketBook 360. Both support six languages, have built in Sudoku, chess, sea battle, and solitaire games as well as a picture viewer with a slideshow function, a clock, and calendar. Users can also change the font size or make notes.

Looks like some people who like e-publications would rather use their phones vs. a dedicated e-reader like the Kindle or Sony e-reader.

Barnes & Noble says heavy demand for its Nook e-book reader is delaying shipments of the latest pre-orders of the device. " />

Ron Charles talks about the challenges of trying to adapt print-book reader behaviors to e-readers.

As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."

Barnes & Noble plans to introduce its own brand of electronic-book reader, jumping in among challengers to Amazon.com's Kindle device." />

Would you want to read a book or newspaper on a cellphone screen? On Tuesday, Hearst e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung's mobile phone division to become its "preferred e-reading service partner."

Looking for meaning in Microsoft's investment in the Nook - the end of dedicated e-readers?

Could be a significant change in the competitive landscape for e-readers and e-books

Amazon.com today unveiled its long-awaited color tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, at an event in New York that also saw the introduction of two new e-readers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the tablet, which ships Nov. 15, would retail for $199. "We're building premium products at non-premium prices," he said.

Kindle-killers? A flood of e-readers on the way, some featuring touch and even video chat