ReadersFirst is an international coalition of  292 librarian systems cooperating to improve e-book access for public library users. After a meeting with ebook vendors and companies that license e-content and supply… Read more »

According to the website Vocativ.com, the ebook of Mein Kampf is so in-demand that it qualifies as a bestseller in numerous ebook catergories, and free versions have been downloaded over… Read more »

This past week, Google donated 17,000 Nexus 7 tablet devices to the New York State Community Action Association to mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting New York. In… Read more »

Digital reading is poised to get a little more personal with the news that Apple is planning a system to allow authors to sign ebooks. A patent was filed on… Read more »

Oyster, a new book subscription app, launched this week to much fanfare. Already being called a “Netflix for books,” (by Mashable, GigaOm, the LA Times, and many more), Oyster works… Read more »

An associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology named Peter Purgathofer has built a Lego robot he calls a “DIY kindle scanner,” which uses a MacBook camera to take a… Read more »

Amazon rolled out a new ebook bundling program on Tuesday, one which will, in true Amazon fashion, burn down the orchard to help them reach a few more apples. Amazon’s… Read more »

Yesterday, Amazon announced an ambitious plan to bundle copies of print books and ebooks and accidentally (probably) leaked information about its upcoming second generation Kindle Paperwhite. Oh, and Jeff Bezos promised… Read more »

In “Libraries and Ebooks,” posted in Locus Online yesterday, author and blgger Cory Doctorow argued that publishers should find a better model for selling ebooks to libraries. He spoke with… Read more »

According to a document released on Tuesday, the five publishers involved in the DOJ’s recent ebook price-fixing case paid $166,158,426 to settle the state and consumer charges brought against them. Over… Read more »