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Apple has responded to allegations of ebook price fixing with a scathing court filing in which it pours scorn on claims that it colluded to crush the Amazon Kindle.

After months of conjecture and investigation, the US department of justice has warned Apple and five major US publishers that they face legal action over ebook pricing.

Taking a leaf out of the music industry's book

The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 is set for a spring 2012 launch and is poised to be another 7-inch tablet.

The Amazon Kindle could be set to get an ebook subscription service, with a number of book publishers in talks with the etailer.

Amazon has launched the Kindle Cloud Reader, a web-based ebook application that is "optimised for iPad".

Amazon has sparked speculation that a new next-gen Kindle is set to launch soon due to a lower-price for the eReaders.

JK Rowling has revealed her next big thing in the Harry Potter world – Pottermore, an interactive site which will eventually become a portal for all Potter ebooks.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is stalling when it comes to committing to publishing her hugely popular boy wizard stories in e-book format.

Amazon may have sold 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardback books in the past month, but despite the burgeoning new market the company's quarterly results did not please the financial world.