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On Monday, Netherlands-based iRex Technologies is slated to unveil the iRex Reader 1000, the first in a wave of e-reader devices that promise bigger screens and improved interfaces and functionality. And unlike Kindle or Sony's Reader, this second generation of e-readers aims to bring innovative E-ink display technology to the more demanding, and possibly more lucrative, world of business.

Lessons for book publishers from the music industry sprinkled with some pessimism that major publishers will heed the lessons.

H-P, Dell and others are plotting strategies and developing devices to rival Apple's attention-grabbing iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was all but moribund." />

Interesting article about how a former BitTorrent junkie is now perfectly happy to Netflix the movies he wants. Perhaps there's a lesson here for publishers....

There's a lesson for all magazine publishers here.

In our Web-obsessed era, some folks-especially folks in the newspaper newsrooms-regard newspapers as victims of the new technology.

What exactly "fair-use" means in copyright law is being challenged again.

I can't decide whether I'm going to be happy I can get books & the like for insanely discounted prices (yay books I can read because I *want* to), or feel like I'm looting a corpse when I go to my local Borders next to help lighten the load. Anyone else feeling a little conflicted?

Article from March that popped up on my radar now about how to handle lending e-books and first-sale-doctrine issues.

Other things that led to Borders' demise -- not just their "the Internet stole our lunch money" argument.