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Amazon.com (AMZN) has cut the price of the Kindle e-book reader to $259 from $299, the company announced. Amazon also unveiled plans to sell an international version of the Kindle in more than 100 countries. The international version will be priced at $279; it goes on sale October 19. Until [...]

The international print editions of The Guardian and The Observer are among the earliest casualties of the Guardian News & Media's (GNM) evolving "digital first" strategy. International copies, printed in New York, Frankfurt, Madrid, Malta and Cyprus, will cease printing October 1, GNM announced Friday.

Smart or Stingy?

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

A Taiwanese company, Prime View International, plans to pay $215 million to acquire E-Ink, which owns the technology for displaying text in e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."

"Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."

Not exactly news, but for those that haven't seen this yet through Publisher's Weekly it's a microsite called Book Life. Great resource for book blogs and reviews.

If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers

Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.