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Barnes & Noble will offer an e-book reader application for Apple's new iPad tablet computer, providing access to the electronic books it sells. " />

The digital age may end the free advertising that publishers got from readers of their books in printed form.

Publishers need to recognize that readers are shifting to ereading, and for this group if it's not in e-book format it doesn't exist.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader

Brings up interesting point comparing e-readers to digital cameras, rather than mp3 players inasfar as how fast they caught on.

Nick Carr (of "The Shallows") is skeptical of the Kindle Fire's new "X-Ray" feature. He writes, "A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance. A person of the book may see the technology as a catastrophe."

Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows", raises another alarm about enhanced reading tools for e-books, but what doesn't like may be just what others find most compelling about e-books.

Barnes & Noble said it would drop the price of the Nook to $199. Responding rapidly, Amazon.com cut the price of its popular Kindle e-reader below the Nook, to $189.

Amazing numbers from China.  50% of the population under 29 read e-books (generally on cell phones)

Musings on the e-reader replacing the book, and how well (or not) it replaces the book as conversation-starter. Replacing the ink-and-paper book may be a bigger issue than anyone so far has actually realized....

Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users

Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement: Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models. The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.

In a strongly worded message, Amazon said that while it disagreed with Macmillan's stance, it would accept the publisher's plan on e-book prices.

America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.

Via Joshua Gans, Harry Potter fans can now get their favorite books in digital format. But not from Amazon or the iTunes bookstore. Instead, the exclusive source of Potter ebooks is J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website where you're able to get them in formats that run on all major e-readers and tablets.

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.

Hotels in New York, Miami, and Turks & Caicos are now offering guests Sony Readers for loan. New York's storied Algonquin Hotel, meanwhile, already offers Amazon's Kindle.