My e-book on investing now regularly gets more downloads than books by Warren Buffett, George Soros and Peter Lynch. Here are three things that I learned in the process of getting it there.

Writing does require quite a lot of time and effort and expertise, of course, but it's foolish to think such costs could be passed on to customers. In this digital age, we're told that information should be free.

Annik LeFarge knows what she's talking about, so we asked her to share with us the benefits of author websites. She also shared with us her 10 ½ tips for being a more effective author online.

Longstanding barriers between authors and readers -- barriers of technology, finance, and distribution -- are crumbling faster than news stories can report.

Amazon.com said Monday that it would give magazine and newspaper publishers more of the revenue that it collects from the periodicals sold via the Kin...

It's not yet out, but on Wall Street, the announcement was greeted with a yawn. Meanwhile critics have already been generally unimpressed, and reactio...

Not to be upstaged by the Nook Color, Amazon revealed that James Patterson is the second novelist to sell more than one million Kindle books--joining ...

The idea is that you can "read, watch, and listen to an e-book at the the same time," in the parlance of Penguin's marketing materials in support of t...

"The screen won't go blank," said Faton Begolli, a sophomore from Boston. "There can't be a virus. It wouldn't be the same without books. They've defi...

Amazon.com is betting that an uncommon length of reading material -- longer than a magazine article but shorter than a book -- will be a popular forma...

Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase...

The Kindle changed my reading habits, because I now buy books pretty much only when I'm drunk, and late at night. I had a serious Agatha Christie drun...

"In five years, books will be more often crossmedia products: with embedded sound, animated pictures, Internet links and ... possible a gaming compone...

Today, instead of reading serialized stories in magazines, readers will pay $5.99 at mongoliad.com for a six-month app that gets them a chapter a week...

But as you scroll down the list of Kindle offerings, you can't help but notice all of the steamy writing that seems to be targeted at men--an emotiona...

While the false battle between e-books and print books will continue--you can read one on the beach, with no batteries; you can read another at night ...

I couldn't see what she was reading, and it bothered me. I couldn't peer in that tiny window onto someone's interior world, or delight in the juxtapos...

Tech blog GDGT quoted Jobs as saying: "People have downloaded over 11.7 billion songs from iTunes, and we're just about to cross 12b. Over 450 million...

Their "archive" process (scheme) works like this: after an unspecified "period of time," all free, publicly-viewable documents posted to Scribd.com ar...

While paper books are still the norm, e-books now account for up to 20 percent of book sales in categories like romance and sci-fi. The shift in publi...