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The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has shown an interest in replacing normal paper textbooks in schools with e-books.

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the American National Institute of Standards and Technology.;

Dutch company Endless Ideas has just released the first pics and details of its new mini electronic reader, the BeBook Mini.

Google has leapt the defence of its online book deal this week after reports that it is being reviewed by the US justice department.

On Boxing day, which is slightly bizarre

You might be slightly peeved to hear that current-gen e-readers are already being superseded, if you were one of the lucky few that bought themselves a new Sony e-reader from Waterstones last week.

New reports suggest Amazon won't be releasing its e-book reader overseas this year