eBooks News

Sales of e-books continue to soar, registering a 115 percent increase from a year ago, amidst declining sales for print books.

Barnes & Noble is narrowing the gap with the likes of Amazon, Google and Apple, but the gains are coming at the cost of profits and dividends for investors.

Book-reading devices have found a strong niche with older people, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an ongoing survey of online trends in the U.S.

U.K. regulators are investigating e-book pricing practices, amid concerns that agreements between publishers and retailers maintain artificially high prices.

A best-selling business author is using the new "Powered by Amazon" service to take the middle man out of publishing and distribute his latest book in all formats, including the growing e-book business.

Vook, creator of a hybrid e-book concept that blends text, video and Internet, recently raised $5.25 million in venture capital to continue its expansion into the emerging e-publishing market.

Google today acquired eBook Technologies, in a move to boost its presence in digital books business.

Barnes & Noble today announced that it sold "millions" of Nook e-readers, making the Android-based device the bestselling product in the company's history.

Google has approached major publishers to canvas support for a digital newsstand accessible from Android-based smartphones and tablets, in a move that escalates the battle to shape the future of digital print media and could leave readers the winners.

Advertisers are currently experimenting with advertising in e-books, in a move that could boost the publishing business but face opposition from some traditionalists.

Amazon today unveiled a new service that will let its Kindle customers read books on ordinary Web browsers, in a move to compete with Google's new cross-platform e-bookstore.

Google is poised to launch its e-books store, called Google Editions, in a move that could revolutionize how digital reading material is bought and sold.

Sharp announced today that it will launch its Galapagos e-book tablet in Japan next month, but plans to release the tablet in other markets are still under consideration.

E Ink Corp., the company that makes black-and-white displays for Amazon's Kindle e-reader device, said it will begin selling color screens.

Barnes & Noble recently unveiled a new Nook e-reader with a color touch screen, in a move to better compete with rivals Amazon and Apple as the rapidly growing industry ramps up for the holiday season.

Amazon announced last Friday that it enable lending on its Kindle devices, allowing users to share e-books with friends.

Verizon and Google are working on a tablet computer, in an attempt to catch up with rivals AT&T and Apple, the exclusive carrier and maker of the iPad and iPhone, for devices that connect to wireless networks.

Apple today unveiled its much-anticipated iPad, a tablet computer with a touch screen display to show movies, play video games and even view e-books, that could fuel its next leg of growth beyond the iPhone.