"e-book" news, interviews, and features

News about e-book

• Altech becomes sole PocketBook distributor for A/NZ

  To distribute full portfolio of e-readers and tablets across the region

• Apple disses our DRM for iPad, Adobe says

  Apple offers its own FairPlay DRM technology to publishers to copy protect e-books

• E-book piracy: the publishing industry's next epic saga?

  With the rise of e-book readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, and Nook comes the scourge of the digital world: pirates

• LG develops solar panel for e-book reader

  The small, thin and light solar panel is being demonstrated with a Sony Reader

• Sony trumps Amazon with e-book reader

  Though for e-books to catch on, a common, open format for the books and less-expensive, even thinner hardware readers are needed

• CHT, Microsoft, HTC team up for Chinese e-book market

  CHT hopes to provide e-books to the global Chinese language market in the future

Features about e-book

• Google's move into e-books could be explosive

  Reading e-books from any Web-enabled device seen as broadening use of the technology to a wider market