Here’s an excerpt from UK publication The Bookseller. Amazon’s Genevieve Kunst has urged “all publishersâ€� to get digitising if the UK is “everâ€� to see the launch of the Kindle device. … But Kunst explained: “We launched in the US with 90,000 e-books available - we waited unti...

The site with the best logo in the world, The Register, is reporting the surprising news that Wattpad has been approved by Apple. The literato’s Pirate Bay, Wattpad, has reached the iPhone and iPod Touch, offering community scribblings and copyrighted material through an Apple-sanctioned clien...

Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world’s largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today. I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 a.m. EST this morning and he told me that all the Fictionwise sites̵...

There is actually some e-book news today aside from the Kindle/iPhone (though not a lot of it.) Here is the press release about Suvudu (what a terrible name!) the free e-book site from Random House. They are PDF, unfortunately, but if you have a Kindle I’ve found that the Kindle’s free c...

Barry Eisler’s excellent article in Buzz, Balls & Hype was reported on by TeleRead here. Now he has come in with a second installment which is just as thoughtful and interesting as the first. Take a look: Why would Amazon want paper books to be replaced? Simple: eBooks eliminate Amazon...

I would suspect that a number or readers might be interested. For today only this site is giving away a PDF converter, supposedly retailing at $59.95 that will convert PDFs to MS Word (RTF) document, HTML file, plain text, images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, EMF) or SWF file. The software supports al...

Such is the title of a thoughtful post on Smart Bitches Trashy Books (I just love that title!).  SB Sarah discusses the pricing of e-books relative to their p-book counterparts. Here’s a snippet: Digital book devotees should be treated like frequent flyer customers, and FictionWise, with that...

Barry Eisler, who has a new book, Fault Line, out soon has an interesting post on Buzz, Balls & Hype, entitled Dead Trees is a Dead Model Here’s an excerpt: Tonight I sat down to write a piece on how authors, literary agents, publishers, and booksellers need to change their business strat...

This is a long and very interesting interview. Go over and take a look. Here’s an excerpt: AMoS: What is the Booksquare origin story? When you launched the site, did you expect it to attain its current level of popularity? KK: Booksquare has a origin story. And it has a rebirth story. We’ll ...

Amazon deserves a lot of praise for making the firmware update on the Kindle so easy. After reading a TeleBlog post on the update, I turned on my Kindle’s wireless, and within a minute I got a message saying that my Kindle would be updated to new firmware. The Kindle then proceeded to download...