Sony has raised the ebook reader game a notch with a host of announcements covering new e-reader devices, further support for the open ePub format, and content partnerships. The new hardware announced today was the Sony Reader Daily Edition, a larger format (18 cm/7-inches wide) reader with wireless connectivity that Sony is clearly hoping will [...]

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Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother implications. But a civil liberties argument is also being used to challenge the hated Digital Rights Management system that underpins the Kindle. And in a [...]

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Rumours started circulating a week or two ago that Amazon was planning to make its Kindle-formatted books available on Apple’s iPhone. Well, a week’s a long time and Amazon today releases its Kindle reader application for the iPhone. Like Stanza and eReader, this is a free download from the iPhone App Store. But unlike Stanza, [...]

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Here’s a very informative Q&A with Mark Coker, founder and CEO of the d-i-y (do-it-yourself) ebook publishing site Smashwords. Smashwords launched about a year ago as a way for self-publishing authors to get their books turned into ebooks and sold. The ebook conversions, into all the common formats including ePub, are done free in exchange [...]

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An announcement with big potential for the ebook industry has just come out of Adobe. They’ve released a software developer kit (SDK) that will allow developers to bring to mobile devices the capability to download, read and manage ebooks in the Adobe PDF format. Among the early licensees are Lexcycle, the developer of iPhone ebook [...]

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