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Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....

Amazon is planning to bring a Kindle reader to the Mac platform, according to a report from Fast Company. The question came  up after Microsoft announced during the Windows 7 launch this week that Amazon would release a Kindle reader for that OS, and an Amazon spokesperson confirmed for the magazine that Kindle was coming to the Mac, too.

I've highlighted what I think is one of the best arguments I've seen for e-book pricing.

Google will make inroads into the ereader market next week when the first such device using the Google eBooks platform will go on sale at Target. The iriver Story HD will retail for $139.99 - the same price as the Kindle and the Nook Simple Touch Reader - at the chain July 17, according to a blog post from Google.

The company had hoped to have the e-book reader available in its highest-volume stores this week, but online demand is outstripping supply. "> <!-- script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/js/tab.js">&lt;/script --> <!-- <script src='http://i.cmpnet.com/ads/graphics/as5/redirect/tw_mcafee_081021.js'>&lt;/script> --> http://www.informationweek.com/rss/all_st

This is a segment from a "To the Best of Our Knowledge" podcast from a few weeks ago. Mr. Creative Commons (Lawrence Lessig), of course, says the copyright laws are too strict, but he talked in particular about the laws in relation to new technologies, in particular, mashup artists.

Nice for the New York Times considering the iPad had zero users a week ago, but still immaterial.

The retailer cut the price of the e-reader to $259, from $279, only a couple of weeks after sales began.

Magazines and technology pros shared new advice just weeks before the iPad arrives but months into publishers' period of great expectations for the device.

A laundry list of open questions about Apple's iPad isn't keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week." />

The push for newspapers to charge their online readers reached wild-rumpus status last week, as Newsday.com announced a pay wall.

Something like what we were talking about earlier this week in class....

Apple has sold one million iPads just four weeks. Writing in an Apple press release, Steve Jobs compares this to the 74 days it took to achieve this

Earlier this week, Sony announced that it will be bringing out a new eBook Reader that will offer built in 3G wireless and the ability to buy books on-demand --

Apple got some good news Tuesday afternoon, as Judge Denise Cote significantly lightened the proposed injunctive relief the company will face after being found liable in its e-book price fixing trial.

Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed replacing school textbooks with e-books in order to help plug a state budget gap. Now, textbook giant Pearson has responded with digital content to supplement California's programs in biology, chemistry, algebra 2, and geometry.

Let the revolution begin!!

Libyans are celebrating the freedom to read whatever they want in a post-Gaddafi world. Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported.

The Post took a very big step this week, perhaps a leap. It has posted publicly for all to see its new 5,000-word guidelines for digital publishing - the dos and don'ts for journalists working in this new age of online and social-media publishing.

It is no secret to anyone at this point that e-books are here, they are real and, as reported this week, they are adding up to a sizable chunk (often 20% or more) of publishers' sales.