e-books

Amazon's Kindle is only $140 these days; a great price for a really nice e-reader. But if you're really strapped for cash, now there's an alternative. You can save $25 in exchange for getting a Kindle that has advertising on the standby screen and home page. Does this seem like a good deal?

Gartner projects continued hot e-reader sales despite increasing competition from media tablets like Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tablet.

Whether it be books, tv, movies, music or games, there's been good news for digital media aficionados this week! Are the days of physical media numbered?

Japan Today claims that Google's e-book service, Google Editions, will launch with over 4 million titles. But what will the Editions experience feel like for consumers?

In one corner we have Amazon's Kindle format. Amazon has been showing that the Kindle hardware is just a means to an end. It wants Kindle to be a universal e-book format. In the opposing corner sits the iPad, the one tablet device that supports almost all e-book formats (including Apple's, of course).

At the New York Public Library yesterday, Sony revealed a new high end model of its Sony Reader series, and announced a partnership with OverDrive.com to facilitate borrowing e-books from libraries.

Barnes & Noble announced a major push into the ebook space yesterday, including a partnership with Plastic Logic which makes B&N the "exclusive eBookstore provider" for the Plastic Logic e-reader.

Scribd wants to sell you DRM-free content for your e-reader (or any device that can display a PDF). Is this a case of "Move over Kindle!" or just another niche e-publisher?

The e-book buzz continues this week as Barnes & Noble buys Fictionwise. It would seem e-books have finally "arrived," but who or what is driving the adoption of the format? Some things never change...