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Walmart, Amazon and Target are limiting online sales of certain steeply discounted books, preventing small bookshops from taking advantage of a price war to stock their own shelves." />

Report: MediaNews Group to launch website fees at 2 papers

Barnes & Noble says heavy demand for its Nook e-book reader is delaying shipments of the latest pre-orders of the device. " />

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.

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

Google's plan to add millions of books to digital library riding on new settlement

Review of Kindle for PC software....

The rights holders of Fab Four music keep the Internet at arms length.

An update on the google book settlement.

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....

Condé Nast and Adobe are building a digital version of Wired magazine for electronic reading devices, as publishers struggle to render magazines on e-readers." />

Penn State, Indiana and Missouri are the first schools to participate in a USA Today initiative meant to test how students respond to electronic versions of printed newspapers.

TI sues its customers for hacking their calculators. When is it ever a good business decision to sue the most enthusiastic users of your products? We'll see this play out again on one of the ebook readers.

Social Media vs. Politics....what happens when the "suggested users to follow" list is perceived as partisan?

Google and two author and publisher groups submitted a modified version of a controversial settlement over digital books, but it appears likely the fight over the agreement will continue." />

Nation's largest gay, lesbian newspaper publisher closes its doors

A modified agreement offers more flexibility to offer discounts.

A look at Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rogue."