Amazon shuts down eBook loans via Lendle
Since Amazon gave Kindle users the ability to loan their eBooks in December, we've seen a number of startups launch in the eBook lending space, creating networks to…
eBooks and eReaders
As library eBooks live long, publisher sets expiration date
The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an eBook — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world,…
eReaders catch younger eyes and go in backpacks
In their infancy eReaders were adopted by an older generation that valued the devices for their convenience, portability and, in many cases, simply for their ability to enlarge…
Florida or Ghana, eReading innovators face the same challenges
Worldreader, an eReader nonprofit with a project in Ghana, and Clearwater High School in Florida, who also have an eReader project, have found they are facing many of…
Electronics show to bring fiercer competition to iPad
Apple Inc.’s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting, and other features…
Can eBooks help bridge achievement gaps?
As more traditional book content goes digital, educators are left wondering whether technology will make achievement gaps even wider—or whether electronic books might act as a bridge for…
Kindle won’t play nice with eBooks purchased from Google’s eBookstore
One of the main benefits of Google's just-launched eBookstore is that you can read your free and for-pay eBooks on a wide range of devices, ranging from the…
Google’s new eBook store: One store, any device
Watch out Amazon and move over Apple, because Google is about to launch its eBook store and it's likely to change everything, reports ReadWriteWeb.
New social eReading platform allows real-time discussions, right on the eBook’s pages
Describing itself as "part online bookstore, part social network," and "the world's first truly social eReading platform," Copia has launched a platform designed to bring together book-buying, reading…
Amazon to allow gifting of Kindle eBooks
Amazon.com Inc. has begun allowing customers to give its Kindle eBooks to others, the Associated Press reports.
Survey suggests college students still tepid on eBooks
Colleges’ embrace of electronic books runs the spectrum from hesitant acceptance to full investment, but students’ reluctance to use the nontraditional textbooks remains, if a new national survey…
Will your local library lend eBooks? (Or can they?)
According to some publishers, if libraries start lending e-books, it could serve to "undo the entire market for e-book sales," reports ReadWriteWeb.
Universities add open eBooks to iTunes U
Rice University has joined Oxford University and The Open University in contributing free, open eBooks to the iTunes U web site, using the burgeoning EPUB format that lets…
E Ink, maker of Kindle display, to offer color
Up until now, people who have bought e-readers have had to make a compromise: either read in color on a highly reflective screen, or read in shades of…
Barnes & Noble unveils color Nook eReader
Barnes & Noble Inc. is introducing a new Nook eReader with a color touch screen for $249 as competition in the fast-growing industry heats up ahead of the…
Amazon Kindle will let you lend your eBooks. Once. Maybe.
Amazon's Kindle Team announced on Friday that it plans to make lending for Kindle available "soon," reports ReadWriteWeb.
Blurring the line between apps and books
Stephen Elliott, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: an app for the iPad and iPhone called “The Adderall Diaries,” reports…
Study: eBook piracy is on the rise
As the popularity of eBooks and eReaders continues to increase, eBook piracy is also growing rapidly, ReadWriteWeb reports. According to Attributor, a company that develops anti-piracy and content…
Enhanced eBooks could entice a new generation of readers
Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it a game? Or all three? Publishers and authors at the world's biggest book fair are battling to entice…
Two eBooks cost more than Amazon hardcovers
Readers of eBooks might not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends, or file them away on living room bookshelves. But until now, they…
Amazon launches ‘Kindle for the Web’
Amazon has unveiled a program that allows Kindle electronic books to be sampled in a web browser, AFP reports. "Kindle for the Web" is featured on the online…
Survey: Children like eBooks, parents not so much
Children and teens are ready to try eBooks, with some thinking that a bigger selection of electronic texts would make reading for fun even more fun, according to…
Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms
Japan soon will start piloting electronic textbooks in its primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the…
Panelists: Digital tools expand learning opportunities
The nation's ed-tech director called on schools to replace textbooks with mobile learning devices, and the head of the FCC said his agency would be voting this week…
Apple’s new iPad, iPhone software due in November
New software for Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch is on the way that reportedly will take care of a key problem keeping the devices from being more…
eTextbooks expected to grow with iPad on campus
Video and color graphics are key to why many people think Apple's iPad and other tablets will usher in the era of electronic textbooks, Reuters reports.
$46M in funding for digital textbook reader aimed at students
Kno Inc., a company developing a digital textbook reader for students, on Sept. 8 said it has received $46 million in the latest round of funding from venture…
Early iPad adopter to use art application this fall
Seton Hill University, one of the first campuses to board the Apple iPad bandwagon before the device was released in April, announced Aug. 23 that its art history…
Supporters of eBooks say they make readers less isolated, more social
Volumes have been written about technology's ability to connect people. But burying one's nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating, reports the Seattle Times—so what about…
How schools are putting the iPad to work
When Apple’s iPad tablet went on sale to the public last spring, David Woodbury ordered 30 for the libraries at North Carolina State University to be available for…
Replacing a pile of textbooks with an iPad
A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts…
e-Textbooks are on the way, but not dominant in classrooms yet
The same digital revolution that upended the music industry and is transforming TV, movies, and books is slowly working its way into classrooms, reports the Austin American-Statesman—but when…
E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad?
Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's Prime View International Co. hooked up to create an e-paper display that now supplies 90 percent of the…
eTextbooks: Never mind iPad and eReaders, PCs still dominant
There are many benefits to students accessing their textbooks electronically, such as shared highlights and search capabilities. Surprisingly, though, it's not the iPad and other eReaders that are…
Connecticut looks into eBook price deals
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said on Aug. 2 that he was investigating deals struck by Amazon.com and Apple to offer low prices on electronic books, saying the…
Barnes & Noble launches eBook software for students
Barnes & Noble has joined the growing list of companies and organizations giving college students electronic alternatives to their pricey textbooks with the book retailer’s free NOOKstudy software…
All-digital newsstand coming to college stores
College students will be able to access digitized publications from around the world starting in August, after the campus retailing industry teamed up with a digital content distributor…
Sony cuts eReader price to stay competitive
Sony has cut the prices on its electronic-book readers to keep up with competition from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, which both recently slashed prices on their own…
Study: eBooks take longer to read than print
In a recent usability survey, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered that it takes longer to read books on a Kindle or an iPad…
iPad pilots launching in higher ed this fall
Educators say there’s a simple reason they believe the Apple iPad pilot programs coming to colleges and universities this fall will run smoother than previous trials with popular…