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Ebooks: a more civilised way of scribbling in the margins?
E-readers are reinventing the ways books are read, shared and annotatedAsk people how they bookmark and annotate the books they read, and you'll receive a range of answers. Some people dog-ear, while...
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Mini-ebooks: a natural home for articles that need a little room
The success of Amazon's new platform for mid-length fiction and non-fiction is good news for writers, publishers – and readers"A magazine article stretched to breaking point" must be one of the most...
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Apple accused by US of colluding with publishers to fix price of ebooks
Lawsuit filed by US department of justice claims Apple ended price competition after seeing success of Amazon's $10 ebooksThe US government has accused Apple and five book publishers of colluding to...
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Technology should help us share, not constrain us | Richard Stallman
Companies like Amazon can control the way we use the ebooks we buy. Instead let's build a publishing model based on freedomI love the novel The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it,...
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Ebooks: should their form determine their value?
Despite what retailers think, the true value of a book lies not in its physical form but in the time spent writing itLast week, the US Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five major...
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What are London's tube travellers e-reading?
Anna Baddeley asked a dozen commuters what they had on their e-readersThe success of Fifty Shades of Grey let the world in on the e-reader's dirty little secret: its ability to conceal less than...
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Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes & Noble's Nook ebook business
Barnes & Noble shares soar as deal with software giant eases fears that bookseller lacks capital to compete with AmazonMicrosoft is challenging Amazon's dominance of the ebook industry with a $300m...
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Fan fiction promises to be a rich vein for publishers
The transformation of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey from free ebook to paperback bestseller shows that fan fiction communities are a potentially lucrative source of materialEL James's Fifty Shades of...
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Press Gazette goes weekly - on screen
The Press Gazette is irrepressible. The weekly journalism trade magazine that went monthly four years ago after a period when it looked likely to disappear may become a weekly once more. But it will be...
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Ebooks: winners in the generation game
The growth of e-reading among older age groups shouldn't come as too much of a surpriseNew technology, like pop music or radical politics, is something you're expected to lose touch with as you get...
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Publishers hit back vigorously against accusations of ebook price-fixing
Penguin and Macmillan reject US department of justice claim that they colluded with Apple to thwart price competitionPublishers have accused the US government of siding with the "monopolist retailer...
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The Kindle's achilles heel is hard to find
Books' migration to digital is utterly dominated by Amazon and its e-reader – but its lack of community may be its undoingSing, O muse, of the wrath of the publishers, as Homer might have said if he...
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Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon
A snappier name for e-readers is required before the word Kindle takes overYou say E-book, I say eBook. The technology might be approaching maturity, but the language we use to describe it refuses to...
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Big e-reader is watching you
Your e-reader knows how long it took you to finish The Hunger Games and where you stopped reading Wolf Hall. Publishers are thrilled with the new data – but what does it mean for the rest of us?What's...
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Japan finally embraces e-reader revolution
Japan's leading online retailer Rakuten is hoping to see off Amazon's Kindle and corner the world's second-largest publishing marketFor a nation of technology-loving avid readers, Japan has been slow...
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Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true...
Historically, only a tiny proportion of published books have made it into braille. But now technology means no book is off limitsThe book, not just as a source of knowledge or entertainment, but as an...
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Summer reading: no longer limited by baggage allowance
Anna Baddeley raids the digital shorts pick'n'mix for the best holiday booksIf Christmas is boom time for e-reader purchases, then summer is the season they come into their own. What's truly liberating...
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Barnes & Noble to launch Nook e-reader in UK
Publisher backed by Microsoft has Amazon's Kindle in its sights in first expansion outside USBarnes & Noble is to take on Amazon in the European digital book market by launching its Nook e-reader...
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Why do I have to switch off my Kindle for takeoff and landing?
E-readers are now vital holiday accessories for many of us. But why aren't we allowed to read them on planes at the beginning and end of flights?I have done a bit of travelling recently, and each time...
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John Lewis to be first UK retailer to sell Nook e-reader
US bookseller Barnes & Noble seeks to loosen Amazon's grip on digital book market in BritainBarnes & Noble, the US bookseller, has secured a deal with John Lewis to distribute its Nook e-reader...
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