The number of sales of the Steve Jobs biography will be comparatively small for the iBookstore. Publishers and analysts say the iBookstore is still relatively unknown to the general public, especially compared to all the other apps on an Apple screen.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books.
The Reader Privacy Act of 2011 will require government agencies to obtain a court order before they access customer records from book stores or online retailers.
Nick Carr (of "The Shallows") is skeptical of the Kindle Fire's new "X-Ray" feature. He writes, "A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance. A person of the book may see the technology as a catastrophe."
Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows", raises another alarm about enhanced reading tools for e-books, but what doesn't like may be just what others find most compelling about e-books.
New technology allowing users to create their own Commonplace Book:
BookRiff, a Vancouver-based company that promises to allow consumers to mix print content and create their own books and e-books, is scheduled to launch Oct. 6.