"e-books" news, interviews, and features

Slideshows about e-books

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  Apple's iPad vs. e-readers

  Apple's iPad is a multi-function device that focuses on multimedia and some productivity apps, but also functions as an e-reader with a new iBook store of EPub format books.

  Apple's iPad vs. e-readers
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  2010: Year of the E-reader

  When Amazon released its first-generation Kindle, the company was light years ahead of the market, with virtually no competition for digital readers’ eyeballs. In 2010, though, the e-reader universe is not only set to explode, but it’s also set to fragment. What defines an e-reader? Is it only a device with an electronic paper-like display? Is it a device (tablet or otherwise) that has an LCD screen? Or does software turn any device into an e-Reader?

  2010: Year of the E-reader

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News about e-books

• Digital reading room: Rock 'n' read

  We look at musical memoirs from Ringo Starr, Cheap Trick, and Led Zeppelin available from Apple's iBookstore

• Sony Reader Wi-Fi PRS-T1 Review: An E-Reader That's Big on Style and Flexibility

  With a touchscreen and a row of physical buttons beneath the display, this e-reader takes a different approach from its competition.

• Kindle Fire: What the critics are saying

  A roundup of the early reviews reveals an attractive lean and lightweight tablet on a mission to sell e-books, magazines, videos, and apps.

• E-readers are big winners in tablet wars

  As budget media tablets race to the bottom on price, e-book readers are the real winners receiving deep price cuts and improved features

• First Impressions: Nook tablet is the value tablet to beat

  B&N's Nook Tablet is fast, has a dynamite display, and will give Kindle Fire and other value tablets a run for their money.

• Kindle Fire's a hit, sight unseen

  Amazon's budget tablet is reportedly blazing its way to record pre-orders, even before prospective customers have touched it.

Features about e-books

• Five reasons Amazon e-books are outselling hardcovers

  A look at the advantages of e-books, as Amazon reports that Kindle sales are outpacing hardcover books.

• Can eReaders carve out a business niche?

  The eReader is being sold as a business tool, but with smartbooks and netbooks its a hard value proposition to sell.

• Quick hands-on from CES: Que and Skiff e-readers

  E-readers need speedy touch to be popular

• Barnes & Noble teams with Google Android for eReader

  There have been rumors that the Barnes & Noble device would have a color e-ink screen and/or a multitouch display

• Microsoft: No e-Readers for us, thanks

  Silicon Valley may be dreamin' of Kindles and tablets, but Microsoft says it wants nothing to do with electronic readers

• Asus 'Eee Reader' to join e-reader fray, says report

  While nothing is official yet, the company is reportedly considering a budget and premium model of the Eee Reader