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Amazon just sold more e-books in a month than hard-covers. Is this end of the road for the printing press?

Google is launching an e-book store this summer, and the only way I could be more excited is if I actually knew anything about the service, dubbed Google Editions. The sparse details Google has provided tell us only that books will be stored in the cloud, making them accessible on many devices through many satellite online retailers. As for the service's look, feel, and features, we're in the dark. So here's a list if things I'd like to see:

Steve Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by declaring that "people don't read anymore." That may or may not be true, but either way, people definitely still sell books. As The Guardian reports, e-books are now more plentiful on the App Store than any other kind of app--including games.

Apple Inc. will not use Adobe Systems Inc.'s e-book digital rights management (DRM) technology, an Adobe executive said on Wednesday.

The uproar between Amazon.com and publishing house Macmillan over the price of e-books may be the precursor to more marketing battles as Apple's iPad enters the e-reader market. This FAQ sets the scene.

The Apple iPad's color multitouch display will clobber -- but not kill -- the blossoming e-reader market, which includes Amazon.com's Kindle, the Sony Reader and other devices that use gray-scale displays and slower interfaces, some analysts said.

That didn't take long. Two months after a high school student sued Amazon for removing George Orwell's "1984" from his Kindle e-reader, along with all his notes, Amazon has settled the lawsuit.

The e-reader market in the U.S. is about to get more crowded with introduction next month of a $400 device called the Irex DR800SG.

The Kindle DX, which started shipping only yesterday, is now listed by Amazon.com Inc. as out of stock until June 17.

Google will extend a partner program that now lets publishers submit digital books for search engine indexing.

Aya Karpinska had a story to tell. She could hear the words and envision how the tale would unfold. All she needed, she says, was the right iPhone app.

Sony Reader owners can now download classic books from Google Book Search and install them on their e-readers with a few clicks.