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...

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...

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...

If any book is intended to be shared, it is the Bible. Tell that to Amazon, however. Right now you can download the Holy Bible to your Kindle for free. Made available by Crossway Books and Bibles, this authoritative Holy Scripture comes complete with DRM. Meaning it remains locked up on your Kindle....

Netbooks are okay for reading e-books, but tablets would be even better. But what will you type with? One Laptop Per Child solved that problem with a convertible laptop that you can also fold into a tablet. How about a different approach, though? Suppose you could simply detach the keyboard and kick...

Strange, isn’t it? Publishers don’t want Amazon to boss ‘em around on such issues as price—and yet they’re letting Amazon use DRM to lock in customers. This is hardly news to TeleRead readers. But it’s good to see Techdirt, itself no stranger to this issue, note t...

DRM is tough on anyone who wants to own books—not just lease them in effect. Will Company X exist a few decades from now? Even Amazon isn’t necessarily for eternity. I say this regardless of any visions that Jeff Bezos, the outer-space entrepreneur, may have of Kindle 15s in hotel rooms ...

It was more than a year ago that I encouraged Amazon to consider adding an eye-resting feature where the Kindle reads to you. I doubt my post had anything to do with it, but I was pleased to see they’ve implemented this on Kindle 2, calling it "Text-to-Speech." The big question now i...

With the right e-book designer, your Kindle books can stand out from typical homebrewed jobs. Joshua Tallent, with eBook Architects and KindleFormatting.com, excels at making this happen. Kat Meyer interviewed him recently for her Digitizers series for TeleRead. Josh works not just with self-publish...

E-book hater Nigel Farndale is at least nice enough to be amusing in his rant—both wittingly and unwittingly. Headline in the Telegraph is The next book after the e-book is the ex-book: E-books will kill books, just as the iPod has killed music… Let an anonymous editor step out and share...