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The Justice Department struck deals with three universities not to promote Amazon's Kindle or other e-book readers unless the devices are fully accessible to blind students." />

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

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.

While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />

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."

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." />

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." />

Magazine and newspaper publishers rushed to prep their titles for the debut of Apple's iPad last weekend, but some are working to develop ways to sell their publications separately from Apple's iTunes." />

Publishers and e-book sellers are working through glitches and confusion as they adopt a new model for pricing ahead of Saturday's debut of the iPad." />

Magazine-and-newspaper publisher Hearst is near a deal to buy digital-marketing firm iCrossing, the latest sign of how publishers are going head to head with Madison Avenue to grab some of the growing revenues from online advertising." />

Steve Jobs defended Apple's decision to exclude Adobe's Flash player from many of its mobile devices, refuting the software maker's claim it was a business decision to protect Apple's App Store" />

Google plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, aiming to let users access books from a broad range of sites using multiple devices." />

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."

A group of writers and editors created a magazine in two days, in an experimental project that aimed to use the Internet to shake up the way a print magazine is made.

The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association. " />

Barnes & Noble, the leader in bookselling for 40 years, re-examines its business model." />

Amazon's Kindle strategy: subsidize the device by selling content. In theory a good proposition for publishers.

Amazon will unveil a new Kindle e-book reader with features designed to appeal to periodical and academic- textbook publishers.

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