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The Best PDF Reader Apps for the iPad
The school year's already begun for most American college students, and they are no doubt racked with the same problem that we had as undergrads: carrying around countless handouts, course packets,...
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Easy E-Reading: The Ventral Route and the End of Experimental Text
Wired's Jonah Lehrer recently spoke to neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, who explained that our brain uses two processes to interpret the written word: the "ventral route" for fast reads, and the...
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Meet Nelson, Coupland and Alice: IDEO's Future Books
Last week, design innovation factory IDEO wowed us with a reinvention of the woefully stagnant ATM. Now, it has released a video highlighting three new concepts for digital reading. 'Nelson' helps to...
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Bus Driver Caught Reading Kindle Behind the Wheel
Texting while driving is bad enough, especially when you're trusted with the lives of dozens of passengers as an employee of a public transportation system. But 40-year-old Lahcen Qouchbane, a driver...
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BlackBerry Births the PlayBook: The First 'Professional-Grade' Tablet
It was really a matter of when, not if, RIM would throw its hat into the tablet arena with a BlackBerry branded device. Now the fun and games iPad has an appropriate foil in the all business...
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Amazon Kindle for the Web Improves E-Reading Previews
Amazon already has Kindle apps on the three biggest smartphone platforms and the two most popular consumer OSes, so what's left for it to conquer? (Besides Linux that is.) The Web, of course, and...
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Kno Adds Single Screen Model to E-Text Book Lineup
Kno blew a few minds at this year's D8 with its dual-screen tablet aimed at students. The Linux-powered digital textbook offered two 14.1-inch capacitive touchscreens and a powerful Tegra 2 chipset...
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Scholastic Study: Kids Read Less as They Get Older, But Want to Use E-Readers
If you give a kid a Kindle, she's going to ask for more fun books. A study commissioned by Scholastic -- the publisher of the 'Goosebumps' and 'Harry Potter' series -- found that 57-percent of kids...
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Barnes & Noble PubIt DIY eBook Platform Lets You Take on J.K. Rowling
Barnes & Noble is continuing to improve its e-book offerings and, with the launch of its PubIt! platform, is now offering writers and small-scale publishers the ability to make their works...
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Briss Trims and Repaginates PDFs for Better E-Reading
PDFs viewing on an e-reader is a must-have feature. But there is a problem; many PDFs you'll find, whether passed out by professors or downloaded from free e-book sites like Project Gutenberg or Google...
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Craig Mod's E-Reader Incompetence Checklist
"Can you copy text?" "Would a PDF actually provide a better reading experience?" Book designer and developer Craig Mod wonders why publishers are putting their products on e-readers if they don't look...
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Kindle Singles: Amazon Announces Shorter E-Books at Smaller Prices
Long before the 30-minute time slot defined the TV show, and the 45-minute LP defined the album, aspiring authors were constrained by how many, or how few, words a publisher was willing to print. Such...
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Booki.sh: An HTML5-Powered E-Reader for Everybody
The new HTML5-powered 'Booki.sh' e-reading app is entirely Web-based and, unlike Kindle, Nook or even Blio, can be viewed in any modern browser, regardless of platform. This means that PCs, Macs,...
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Printed Textbooks Still Thriving in the Age of The iPad
The iPad and NOOKstudy were supposed to usher in the death of the traditional textbooks. Yet, for all their undeniable advantages (lower price being key amongst them, since a single semester's texts...
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Amazon to Finally Let You Lend Kindle Books to Friends
Kindle-wielding bibliophiles will soon be able to share their favorite books with their literary friends, thanks to a new book lending policy that Amazon announced on Friday. As TechCrunch explains,...
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Colleges Save Students Cash by Forcing Them to Buy E-Textbooks
We've already heard about how students are clinging to printed textbooks despite many of the advantages provided by e-books. Sales of electronic textbooks are expected to increase in the coming years,...
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NOOKcolor E-Reader Targets iPad, Declares Reading the 'Killer App'
Earlier today at its Union Square location in downtown Manhattan, Barnes & Noble announced the latest addition to the Nook family of readers: the NOOKcolor. The seven-inch tablet packs a...
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NYT Sunday Book Review Will Include E-Book Bestseller List in 2011
Further cementing e-books' relevance to mainstream culture, the New York Times announced Wednesday that it will include e-book bestseller lists for fiction and non-fiction titles in its Sunday Book...
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Amazon Relents, Pulls Bestselling Pedophilia Guide From Kindle Bookstore
When a book offering guidance on how to be a pedophile inexplicably landed in the Kindle's list of Top 100 Paid Bestsellers, Amazon suddenly found itself at the center of a brewing national...
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Copia, A Social E-Reading App, Quietly Launches
E-book reading platforms are a dime a dozen these days. (Don't believe us? Just do a search in the Android Market or iTunes App Store for "e-reader" or "books.") But Copia -- a new e-reading...
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Amazon Lets You Gift Kindle Books, Makes Holiday Shopping Even Lazier
Back in October, Kindle users got the ability to lend e-books to friends, and, now, just in time for the holidays, Amazon is introducing e-book gifting. Lazy shoppers, rejoice! You can delay your...
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Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch to Launch iPad Newspaper
Rumor has it that Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch are joining forces to create the world's first digital "newspaper" designed exclusively for the iPad. The new publication, titled the 'Daily,' will be...
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Gift Guide: Kindle 3 Is Our e-Reader Pick for Under $300
Ah, the difference a year makes. Last holiday season, we struggled to find nice things to say about many members of the first e-reader generation. Fast-forward to this August, when we revisited the...
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Google Launches eBooks for Just About Every Device, And We Don't Hate It
The rumors were true. Google eBooks has officially launched here in the U.S., and just about everything you've heard about the service, originally said to be called Google Editions, has turned out to...
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Google eBooks for Android: Hands-On
While we've been waiting for the iPad and iPhone versions of Google eBooks to land in the App Store, we put the Android version through the paces. While it's not the most feature-filled e-reading app...
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e-Book Anonymity Boosts Romance Novel Sales
Romance novels are enjoying a renaissance, largely thanks to the discreet power of the e-book reader. The tawdry books have always been popular among female readers, but many of the more self-conscious...
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Supreme Court Showdown: iPad v. Kindle
Forget Roe v. Wade. Forget Miranda v. Arizona. Forget 'The People vs. Larry Flynt.' They're all milestone cases, to be sure, but they all pale in comparison to the virulent ideological divide that's...
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Your Christmas Morning E-Book Shopping Spree Will Be 'Curated' by Random House
The New York Times states that, on Christmas Day, "hundreds of thousands of consumers are expected to unwrap new e-readers that they received as gifts, and quickly begin downloading books to read." No...
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NOOKcolor Shines With Magazines, Disappoints With Books
The NOOKcolor is the first of its kind: a serious, full-color e-reading device. Sure, the iPad and Galaxy Tab have found some success moonlighting as virtual readers, but they're first and foremost...
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Kindle 3 Now Amazon's Best Selling Product Ever
The Kindle is officially the iPod of the e-reader world. It has its own locked media ecosystem and offers a best-of-breed user experience. And, this holiday season, the Kindle 3 offically became the...
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Amazon Finally Lets You Lend Kindle E-Books
In October, Amazon announced that it would begin allowing Kindle owners to lend books to friends and family, so long as they use a Kindle (or the Kindle app), too. The company promised the feature...
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E-Books Outsell Printed Ones, To Nobody's Great Surprise
Ah, what unsurprising news a year can bring! Just as everyone predicted, e-books continued to nibble at the ankles of their printed forebears this holiday season, with between three and five million...
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Barnes & Noble's Colorful NOOK Kids App Comes to iPad
Already available on Barnes & Noble's NOOKcolor e-reader, the 'NOOK Kids' app is now available on the iPad. According to TUAW, the app features hundreds of colorful, interactive books, which it...
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Amazon Continues to Rake in the Cash, Selling More E-Books than Paperbacks
Amazon's empire is continuing to grow, with the company reporting an increase in profits of eight-percent in the fourth quarter of 2010. That growth was a little slower than expected, but the really...
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Lendle Lets Kindle Users Share E-books
Lendle, an e-book sharing site that launched this week, allows Amazon users to borrow and lend select Kindle e-books, of which 821 are currently available, for two-week periods. All you need is at...
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'Forced Obsolescence': HarperCollins Makes Libraries Re-Buy E-Books After 26...
HarperCollins has placed a restriction on the number of times its e-books can be checked out from a public library. After 26 checkouts, the expired title becomes locked in the library's virtual...
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Librarians: Let the E-Book Wars Commence
Less than two weeks after Harper Collins incited a firestorm with news of its e-book library circulation cap, the American Library Association has thrown its hat into the ring. This week, one of the...
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U.K. Customers Are Getting Free Kindles. Will the U.S. Get Them, Too?
Two weeks ago, the Amazon announced that the Kindle would be sold in AT&T stores; it's already available at Best Buy, Staples and Target here in the U.S. Now the e-reader device will be popping up...
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E-Books May Turn Digital Divide Into a Reading Divide
Due to the rise in popularity of e-books and other digital texts, some worry that the digital divide may soon become a "reading divide." Low-income communities, particularly African American ones,...
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E-Books Pick up Steam as Paperback and Hardcover Sales Slide
Americans are increasingly doing their reading on screens, according to the Association of American Publishers. From January 2010 to January 2011, e-book sales more than doubled, increasing by...
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