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...

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...

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...