Writer Karen McQuestion spent nearly a decade trying without success to persuade a New York publisher to print one of her books. In July, the 49-year-...

Every device needs an eReader app so that you'll have the optimal reading and purchasing experience. While the iPad does have its own app for reading ...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that the iBooks eReader app won't come preloaded on the iPad--it can be downloaded tomorrow. If you're buying ...

Electronic books are expected to be a major selling point for Apple Inc.'s iPad, which goes on sale Saturday. But competitors, particularly Amazon.com...

If you're one of the people around the world buying an iPad today, you might want to check out Apple's iBooks e-reading app (you might also want to ca...

A huge number of people think they might write a book some day--back in 2002, a survey pegged it at 81 percent of Americans. But what happens after yo...

'I don't go anywhere without my boyfriend Kindle," says Jen Pechet, a self-professed addict to Amazon's popular e-book reader. She takes it to bed, ...

When Steve Jobs projected the image of the iPad after his damned-with-faint-praise nod to the Kindle, the Kindle looked comically out of date, a relic...

LibreDigital takes books and coverts them into the ePub format Apple uses in its iBookstore. It can also convert books for Kindle, NOOK, Sony, and Goo...

If students embrace textbooks on the iPad, college bookstores may lose their shirts. It may be the season for graduation parties and commencement spe...

The Boston Consulting Group has just released the results of a 14-country survey it conducted on consumers' desires for e-readers. After talking to ne...

It's no longer such a novel thing to read a book on a mobile phone, and on the iPad, it's practically a requirement to download "The Elements" or open...

Apple has advertised for an iBook Store manager outside of the US, sparking speculation that the electronics giant could begin the roll out its iBook ...

The iPad may, or may not be, just 20-odd days away from store shelves, but there's still room for rumors to swirl. The latest ones are actually fascin...

These titles are sampled from a list of ebooks that one of our tipsters turned up; we were then able to confirm that it was sourced from Apple, and it...

[A]ccording to at least three people with knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because of the confidentiality of the talks, Apple inser...

The act of reading is going through a number of radical transitions, but perhaps none is more fundamental than the shift from reading on paper to read...

In the battle over the pricing of electronic books, publishers appear to have won the first round. The price of many new releases and best sellers is ...

What's happening in the publishing industry is not evolution -- it's a revolution. The pendulum is swinging back toward the author and the iPad is just one more milestone along the way.

Publishers will flourish in this new economy so long as they keep these issues in perspective and understand that it's fruitless to stand between the ...

Users of the popular Stanza e-book reading app for iPhone can no longer move books to their PC with a USB cable. In an updated version to its Stanza ...

Reviews of the iPad are flooding in from around the world, and one of the features people are most excited about is the device's eReader capabilities ...

With a few notable exceptions, the print world welcomed Apple's new iPad on Wednesday, eager to tap into the 125 million customers who already have iT...