We have heard all kinds of crazy claims about the negatives of adopting e-books. Every year that goes by, people get more comfortable with the idea of publishing and consuming e-books. Author Jonathan Franzen is certainly not a fan of e-books. In fact, he thinks the world might not work because digital does not feel [...]

Those of you who have been following the world of P2P are quite familiar how the clamp down on music piracy got started. For a while, people did get away with downloading music illegally before the lawsuits started to emerge. Devices such as the Kindle are ebook pirates’ best friends. E-book publishers are now claiming [...]

Amazon has been improving its Prime program consistently in the past few months. Amazon Prime members not only get super fast shipping, they also gain access to free movies, TV shows, and e-books to consume on their gadgets. That’s right. As an Amazon Prime member, you can borrow e-books for free. Not all e-books are [...]

Amazon.com may have had a lot of success selling e-books and Kindles in the U.S. But Jeff Bezos and his team have grander plans for their business. According to Reuters, Amazon will enter the Japanese e-book market with the help of its Kindle devices. Amazon is negotiating with top publishers such as Shogakukan Inc, Shueisha [...]

In the past couple of years, Amazon has been fighting hard to avoid having to collect sales taxes in states that it does not have a physical presence in. The company has even advised its employees to ask for permission before entering states hostile to it in the Internet tax fight. Should e-books be taxed? [...]

In case you missed it, Amazon is among the companies that have been forced to remove “buy” buttons from their iOS apps to avoid having to pay the Apple tax. While it is awful that iPhone and iPad owners won’t be able to buy Kindle e-books from within the Kindle app, the new process is [...]

If you have checked the news recently, you have probably heard stories of people who have made a respectable amount of money by publishing their own e-books. Getting started as a self-publisher is not that difficult. You can find a lot of useful information on the Internet. These 5 books can teach you a thing [...]

The e-book industry has come a long way in the past few years. E-readers such as Kindle have given the industry a lot of momentum. The fact that Amazon sells more e-books than paperback books or hardcovers is pretty exciting too. But all is not right with e-books. They are frustrating in many ways and [...]

Many have complained about Apple’s plan to charge e-book sellers 30% for having the right to do business on iPads. Apple iPad is a highly popular e-book reader (a tablet really). But the same can’t be said for iBooks. Just because people are picking up iPads like hotcake does not mean they are actually using [...]

Many assume that just because Amazon and other companies are selling a ton of e-books, the industry is a finished business. In reality, it is still growing fast. Just like TV and radio evolved into bigger and better things, there is no reason to assume something similar won’t happen to e-books. Enhanced e-books are the [...]

With all the success that e-book publishers have had in the past couple of years, it is easy to forget about the struggles of the e-book industry just a few years ago. Sony Reader was the leader of the pack among e-book readers back then. But it was clear Sony’s device and business model were [...]

Google has huge plans for its Google Books project. There are already a ton of titles available on Google Books. Android fans now have the option to purchase books on the web or on their Android tablet and have them show up on their devices automatically. Xoom tablet already has Google Books on-board but it [...]

The Internet is a double edged sword. It has certainly made it easy to gather information, conduct research, study in a more thorough fashion, and interact with others interested in your topic. The Shallows is one of few books that goes into detail on how the Internet could actually be detrimental to our brains. Apparently, [...]

Piracy is a huge issue in the world of digital content. People have been downloading and illegally sharing music, books, and movies for many years. Just recently, the Homeland Security and the Department of Justice have started going after websites that link to illegal content (e.g torrent tracking sites). While most of these efforts are [...]

While the tablet market is becoming quite crowded, the e-reader market has become a two race horse between Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad. Both these devices are in the hands of millions of people. Amazon is banking on its E-ink based device to set itself apart for all the tablets on the market. With B&N [...]