It’s been nearly five months since we scooped Amazon’s Kindle 2 and earlier this week, after what seemed like an eternity for anxious e-book fans, Amazon finally began shipping its new reader. We unboxed it for you this past Tuesday but you know we couldn’t leave it at that —...

As soon as my Kindle 2 arrives I’m going to start using the dusty books in my attic as Kindling. An dieses unsinnige Wortspiel wird sich nicht nur die IBI-Mitarbeiterin Maxi gewöhnen müssen, denn mit dem Kindle 2 rumpelt die Diskussion über für und wider solcher Geräte in die Fach- und Ta...

Da die dafür eigentlich besser geeignete Blogplattform des ib.weblog (viel mehr Publikum) momentan wieder an der Altersschwäche des es tragenden Servers leidet, wundere ich mich hier darüber, was eigentlich mit der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung los ist. Mittwoch schreibt Oliver Jungen eine beme...

See the full article for more e-book market dynamics For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity of Amazon.com’s wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started t...

There has been a rush of article added to my Writings about e-book publishing, 2008 over the last 5 or 6 weeks. So much so, that it is already approaching the length of last year's page! The last item to be added, an article by Laura Dawson in Book Business, comes from a journal newly available in e...