The Future Of E-Books
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Amazon's Kindle is a precocious little device. But wait till you see what comes next.
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Which of these e-commerce behemoths has a brighter future?
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THE entire collection of the worldâs books, scholarly works and treasured manuscripts will soon form a vast online library free to anyone with a home computer, experts said yesterday, after a revolutionary move announced by Google, the internet search
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Amazon could experiment in fascinating ways with its new acquisition, Audible.com. What if you could switch back and forth between an electronic book and the audio version?.
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Readers remark on the effects of tech toys, the future of MP3s and yet another school of gaming. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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Two new offerings this fall â including an electronic book reader from Amazon.com â will test if consumers are ready to leave the paper book behind.
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Google has launched a service for book publishers that will make book contents searchable through the web. Google Print is open to publishers of all sizes.
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.
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Could the publishing industry get Napsterized? That was my first thought when I saw the marketing materials for the Atiz BookSnap, the first consumer device that enables you to "release the content" of your books by transforming the printed words into digital files that can be read on computers a...
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As an e-book/newspaper/RSS reader, the Readius is an excellent proposition. As a mobile phone, it still needs a bit of work.
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Moves by Internet search giant Google to create a global virtual library could signal a communications revolution on a par with Johann Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.
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Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection.
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An ambitious new type of pen-based computer system could bridge the gap between paper and the digital world.