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Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.

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

Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google's Android software.

Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu that he believes people will pay for media content in the future, and that paywalls will work eventually. "[Free content] will end because now so many people are used to paying for applications, whether they pay 99 cents or whether they pay for a tune, or they pay 99 cents to play Solitaire, or $4.95 to do this or $2.95 to do that, or one kind of one stop, very simple to do," Diller said.

If Amazon allowed third-party developers to make applications for the Kindle, it could turn a device with a single purpose into something much more flexible.

"Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day... In other words, Apple may have inadvertently sold more e-readers than any other company in the nascent digital book market. ...

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

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

Random House is the only major publisher whose titles cannot be bought directly from Apple's iBooks application, having resisted the new pricing model that Apple offered publishers for the iPad." />

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....

Cathedral Rock Publishing's new "Book IS the Store" application is gaining traction with book publishers and authors looking to continue communicating with existing readers and make them aware of compatible products and services. The company is currently in talks with a well known rock and roll musician who is looking to reintroduce his substantial catalog to a new MultiMedia eBook generation.

Pearson provides developers with access to dozens of classic books and thousands of images through an application programming interface.

Last year, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. learned that a popular iPad application based on a book could drive sales of both. Now the publisher will see whether the reverse works: a book based on an iPad app.

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