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...

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...

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...

by Michelle Lentz Yesterday my Kindle 2 arrived. Today my husband ran off with it to his office, so I couldn’t play with it until rather late in the evening. At first, I was completely against the idea of ebooks. I swore that nothing could ever replace the printed page. Interestingly, in colle...

I wasn’t as excited about the imminent (and subsequent) arrival of my new Kindle as I should have been, mostly because I knew the file management system hadn’t changed and that meant that my use of the Sony 505 wouldn’t change either. Initial impressions of the Amazon box are that ...

BooksOnBoard—not just Fictionwise and others—now offers an e-book store for fans of the Stanza e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a cinch to reach BooksOnBoard on an iPhone orTouch if you’ve already installed Stanza. Just fire up Stanza, go to the Onlne Catalog, the...

If you've been waiting (and waiting) for Plastic Logic's ultra-durable e-reader, you'll have to stick with recycled paper for another dozen months or so. According to a company representative at the outfit's CES kiosk, the device is now scheduled for an "early 2010" release, and as expected, final p...

I'm not reading books on it, at least not regularly. The two things I do most frequently with my Kindle are read The New York Times and catch up on RSS feeds via KindleFeeder. And while those two services hardly......

OverDrive rudely reminded us of the perils of DRM when it stopped providing Mobipocket books to Fictionwise. An old lesson hit many e-book-lovers. You can’t really own a DRMed book. You’re at the mercy of profit-driven business people—and not just at the store that sold you the tit...

As part of their “21 Cool iPhone Apps� feature, PC Magazine has posted 2-page reviews of both Stanza and eReader. It gives both apps high marks, though Stanza gets half a star more than eReader. Both reviews contain some factual errors, but they are the sorts of things you need to go in-depth to...