Travis Alber, Kat Meyer’s latest interviewee in her Digitizers series, is co-founder of BookGlutton. See more on Travis at the end. Launched in January 2008, BookGlutton is a cross between a book, a computer and a book group—a Web-based reading platform that lets users discuss books from...

Ok, now the iPhone Kindle application is earning its keep–even though it was already free. As mentioned before, The Cook’s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library is freely available from Amazon’s kindle and it’s big. I’m already a big fan of Cook’s Illustrated and Americ...

Is the typography on Shortcovers, a new e-book service, up to snuff? Joe Clark, in fawny , his Web log, says no. An example is Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow’s novel, which Joe describes as "written in free verse about marauding human lycanthropes." Joe complains of problems in both the pa...

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...

Hello, Amazon? You already know. My publisher and I prefer that DRM not be inflicted on The Solomon Scandals. Now here are similar thoughts from Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, the first book of which is a free download to entice you to purchase the others. Buying details for the o...

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...

I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

So maybe I don’t need to get a Kindle just yet. It looks like Amazon very quietly pushed out an application to the iTunes store within the last day or so. Free for iPhone/iPod Touch and syncs up with your amazon account. If you already have a Kindle, those purchases are available through the d...

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...