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- E-Book Vendors Look To Libraries for Growth
- While consumer e-book sales continue their incremental growth, digital publishers and e-publishing service vendors are looking to libraries and their patrons to add to sales. [Publishers Weekly]
- E-textbooks Clicking with Colleges
- Cases of the appeal of e-books. [CNN]
- Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds
- Report on a study at Ball State University. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated
- Review of companies, market issues and outlook for the e-book industry. [Online]
- Battle Over Access to Online Books
- Librarians' efforts to provide online access to electronic holdings. Free registration required to view.
- Mystery of E-Books: Who Reads Them?
- Report on the suggestion that anybody actually reads e-books. [USA Today]
- E-Books Go to College
- A survey of students in two college courses grades e-book devices and their function in higher education. [Library Journal]
- The End of Books?
- Simon Midgley wonders whether hard-up students will need to buy textbooks in a few years' time. [Guardian Unlimited]
- In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries
- Digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. [requires free nytimes.com registration to read]
- 2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books
- Review of industry disappointments and prospects. [Wired]
- E-Books Live On After Mighty Fall
- Profiles successful electronic text projects where reading and sales are stronger than ever. [Wired]
- AOL Retreats From Big Push for E-Books
- AOL Time Warner eliminates its iPublish division. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Will We Ever Want E-Books?
- Commentary on why consumers don't want or need e-books. [E-Commerce Times]
- First Monday - Will E-books Change the World?
- Argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society.
- 4 Publishers Agree to Sale of E-Books on Yahoo
- Short announcement about Penguin Putnam, Simon and Schuster, Random House and HarperCollins publishers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Evolution of Portable Electronic Books
- Charts the development of portable electronic book hardware. [Ariadne]
- Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature
- Cases of the slow growth of the e-book industry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries
- An overview of e-book issues, based on a development strategy for the University of California libraries. [D-Lib Magazine]
- U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Free-lancers
- Writers may control whether articles they sold for print in a regular newspaper or magazine may be reproduced in electronic form. [CNN]
- Compressed Data: Tags Could Help Keep E-Book Links Alive
- The use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in e-books. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World
- A thorough look at the competing economic, technological, and social factors influencing the development of e-books. [First Monday]
- A University that Reveres Tradition Experiments with E-Books
- A University of Virginia seminar's trials with e-book readers. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Evolving E-Books Let Authors Answer Critics
- News on a Princeton University Press project with adaptive e-books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Copyright Battle: Is an E-Book a Book?
- News and implications analysis of the lawsuit between Random House and RosettaBooks. [CNet]
- E-books Remain Niche Reads
- The e-book market is hampered by immature, expensive technology and a limited number of people willing to consider reading books on electronic devices. [CNet]
- E-book Devices Yet to Hit Bestseller's List
- News on the slowly developing e-book hardware devices market. [CNet]
- How to Crack Open an E-Book
- Gemstar's RocketBook encryption methods have apparently been hacked. [Wired]
- Authors, Agents on E-Books' Side
- Analysis of an upcoming lawsuit over the interpretation of book contracts. [Wired]
- Is Digital Publishing Taking Off?
- An update on recent e-book business deals. [InternetNews]
- The E-Book as Print-Edition Ad
- Report on advertisements within e-books. [Wired News]
- The Bearable Lightness of E-Books
- An introduction to the capabilities of e-book readers. [CBC]
- Publishers Embrace E-Books at Confab
- Report of publishing companies' involvement with e-books. [Publishers Weekly]
- Publisher's Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales
- A look at some companies making money with online books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Textbook Publisher Sees Future in E-Books
- Harcourt College Publishers inks a deal with e-book company goReader to offer electronic college textbooks. [CNet]
- Beyond Hypertext: Novels With Interactive Animation
- Self-published books with electronic artistry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Random House Sues Over Rights to Publishing E-Books
- News of a lawsuit over the digital sales of books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- E-Books Are Now on the Shelf
- News an analysis of a pilot program to sell electronic books in stores. [Wired]
- What if E-Books Cost Less?
- Examines the dropping prices and costs of e-book readers and titles. [Wired]
- A "Revolution" Waiting to Happen?
- A look at the current efforts of e-book publishers, with a focus on children's books. [Publishers Weekly]
- Book Lovers Fail to Click with E-Pages
- Several major booksellers have shelved the idea of selling online editions. [Christian Science Monitor]
- E-Book Forecast: Cloudy
- News analysis of the slow adoption of e-books. [Wired]
- Rebooted Any Good Books Lately?
- A lengthy overview of electronic book readers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Report: E-Book Industry Set to Explode
- Announcement of the report "Electronic Publishing Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004: Digital Books and Print on Demand." [E-Commerce Times]
- Getting a Read on New E-Books
- A report on a new generation of e-book reader hardware. [Wired]
- Stephen King's Net Horror Story
- An interpretation of the demise of "The Plant." [Slashdot]
- Measuring the Use and Value of Electronic Journals and Books
- Report on how libraries can gauge patron usage of electronic materials. [UCSB Library]
- Struggles Over E-Books Abound
- A detailed analysis of the electronic book business. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- Exit Gutenberg?
- Report on the eBook World conference and the future of publishing. [Digital Reader]
- Amazon.com Launches e-Books Store
- News announcement that the online superstore now offers e-books. [E-Commerce News]
- A Bad Ending for E-Authors
- MightyWords is eliminating many of its authors from its e-publishing program. [Wired]
- Another Format in the E-Book Field
- News of Reciprocal's introduction of another e-book data format. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
- The E-Book Wars
- News of the major publishing houses taking over the e-book publishing industry. [CNN]
- The Story Of E-Books
- Current business efforts to move e-books to the mainstream. [Forbes]
- Forbes.com: Simon & Schuster Leads The E-Book Charge
- Early promotional titles sell well.
- The Good E-Book
- A thoughtful look at the e-book movement, concluding "Can anyone really be against that?" Free registration required. [NY Times]
- Who Can Dig Digital Books?
- New usability research on electronic books. [Wired]
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the E-Book
- An overview of e-book business issues such as copyright protection. [American Libraries]
- The King of E-Books
- Discusses the success of Stephen King's first foray into e-books and what it may mean for the future. [Spark-Online]
- Stephen King E-Book Pirated
- Copies of Stephen King's novella "Riding the Bullet" may have been decrypted by hackers. [ZDNet]
- E-Books Take Off
- An interview examining the impact and future of e-books. [PBS NewsHour]
- E-Publishing: Tomorrow's Publishers Today
- An annotated list of some online publishers. [Publishers Weekly]
- EBooks Are Not Just For Reading
- Adding handwritten notes to the Rocket eBook. [CNN]
- The Future of the Book
- A series of articles examines how the digital revolution is changing what and how we read. [Salon]
- From P-Books to E-Books
- Microsoft and Barnes and Noble's e-book plans. [Wired]
- E-Books Turn Over a New Leaf
- Report on the Open E-book Publication Structure. [Wired]
- Racing to Convert Books to Bytes
- Meeting the rising demand for online access to books. Free registration required. [NY Times]
- Is This the End of the Story for Books?
- "Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way." Free registration required. [NY Times]
- Getting a Read on E-Books
- Electronic books have been slow to catch on among consumers, but big Internet companies are betting that the time for e-books has come. [CNet]
- E-Book Conference Illuminates Issues
- Report and overview of the second annual Electronic Book Conference. [American Library Association]
- E-Books: The Next Killer App
- For 50 years, tech gurus have promised that the next invention will make paper books obsolete. But the buzz on e-books means this time, the hour may be nigh. [Wired]
- E-Books Taking Shape
- The market for electronic books has been sluggish thus far, but the announcement of an e-book standard might encourage more authors and readers to make the shift. [Wired]
- Electronic Books for All
- Glassbook will offer a standard way to download e-books from bookstores or libraries. [PC World]
- E-books Draw Crowds, No Converts
- Visitors to BookExpo America 1999 circle around the e-book booths, but few are buying - yet. [Wired]
- E-Books Target Pricey Print Books
- Explains the technology from two vendors to be used to read e-books. [PC World]
- Downloading Literature - E-books change the face of reading
- Electronic books have finally arrived and now represent a challenge to the traditional paper and ink, but how good are they and how do they work? [CNN]
- A New Chapter for E-Books
- Briefly outlines the history of e-books and details the technology currently on the market. [BusinessWeek]
- Are Digital Books Good Enough to Curl Up With?
- An overview of how electronic books read and manage e-titles. [PC World]
- An Electrifying Read
- Explains some of the current e-book technology and how it works. [SF Gate]
- The Future of Books
- Summarizes a bits vs. books argument. [Wired]
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