As Apple and Microsoft race to release their own tablet computers and get a foothold in the emerging e-Reader market, new leaks and rumours reveal what each party will be offering.
E-books
The Beast gets bigger and bookier
Online news site The Daily Beast is bringing its “speedy and smart” news philosophy to the literary world, launching a book-publishing arm that will turn around timely and topical tomes in a fraction of the time it takes regular publishers.
Doubleplusungood: Amazon goes Orwellian on e-readers
Amazon has been deleting e-books directly from Kindle e-readers, with hundreds of Kindle owners making the bitterly ironic discovery that their paid-for copies of 1984 and Animal Farm had disappeared. At least they experienced a good taste of the plot…
Pirated e-books: publishers only have themselves to blame
Book publishers are putting the pressure on Amazon to jack up the prices on their e-book titles, but once they stop being a bargain, it will only be a matter of time before people start sharing them illegally like mp3s, says Jack Shafer
Farewell to the paper page…
The digital revolution can squeeze the text of dozens of books into a little box, though you do not experience the sensual anticipation of turning a paper page, and it is dangerous to read in the bath.
Media briefs: The Hun: So glossy it hurts
Iran jails US journalist “spy”… Television more important than human life… e-books vs. newspapers
