Sony Starts The eBook Reader Price War
The heat in the air this past August was not spurred on by the dog day afternoon temperatures, but by the latest news from the ebook readers market. Three new ebook reader models priced to under cut Amazon’s Kindles will be released by Sony in the coming months.  Two [...]

Publishers have seen the light.  as their industry struggles to stay afloat, ebook readers are quickly gaining ground.  Knopf DoubleDay, the publishers of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, have announced that his new novel The Lost Symbol will be released on September 15th.  In order to meet the demands of the rising digital market, [...]

Amazon.com, which started out as an online bookstore, and is now rapidly becoming America’s marketplace, has recently made some interesting inroads into ebook reader technology.  It owns Wikipedia.com and recently introduced its S3 service, a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from [...]

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When Apple made available its Apps Store for its iPhone it already had some of the best eReader apps for reading books, blogs, and offline web pages.  Instapaper, which  provides a simple downloadable “read later” service and Stanza, a free e-reader app with built-in access to a huge library of free books are [...]

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The history behind the electronic books starts with  a simple book.
What is a book anyway?
In its simplest form a book is a compilation of written words recorded on thin sheets paper and held together by two thicker pieces of paper. About 5,000 years ago the ancient Egyptians first made paper from the stem of [...]