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Google may soon become the primary source of e-books on the Web sites of hundreds of independent booksellers.

Apple touts its latest sales figures for the buzz-generating tablet and acknowledges difficulty in keeping up with demand. Read this blog post by Jim Dalrymple on Apple.

Clay Shirky and Nicolas Carr debate the effects of the Internet on cognitive abilities.

Another piece of the puzzle...

Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.

Article looks at three separate studies of the educational benefit of home computers for lower income children. The studies indicate that the educational value of universal broadband access may be minimal, or worse, harmful.

Tasking itself to produce a study on the "reinvention of journalism," the Federal Trade Commission has encountered many of the same quandaries the industry has.

The company acquired an electronic reading platform called Skiff and invested in a company working on pay models for newspapers and magazines.

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.

Comment on Nicholas Carr's new book "The Shallows" and argument that technology multi-tasking is dangerously affecting our ability for deep, reflective reading.

If electronic books are the future-literary volumes optimized for the Kindle, the Sony Reader, the iPhone-how come two of this fall's hottest books won't be available in digital form anytime soon?