ebooks

Better looking digital books en route

Exclusive Sony cites four reasons to choose its Reader over a Kindle

Google has announced the release of the first e-reader that comes with Google eBooks on board.

Charles Darwin's personal library is being digitised and put online by Cambridge University.

The British Library has struck a deal with Google to make a portion of its enviable collection of 17th and 18th century texts available to search and view online.

Email spam? That's so yesterday; it's all about the e-book publishing spam these days, with the Amazon Kindle self-publishing platform proving to be a spammers' paradise.

Apple has reworked its app subscription rules for publishers, relinquishing its vice-like control over news and magazine apps.

Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that's hardcover and paperback combined – through its Amazon.com site.

iFlowReader, an ebook app, has been forced to close, saying that Apple's fee structure for ebook sellers killed the app by causing the company to operate at a loss.