Filed under: Internet, News There's a lot of news in the eBook space these days. First Amazon launches the new Kindle 2 eBook reader. Then the company follows it up with the launch of an eBook app for the iPhone. But Amazon ain't the only game in town. Yesterday Barnes & Noble announced that it ...

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...

In 1998, I left my job at Intel for a job with an ebook startup called JStream. It was in many ways my dream job, and of every one I’ve held it was the one I’d get excited on Sunday night because I got to go back in on Monday morning. It was a good fit for me because I’m a software...

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...

eReader is coming to the Blackberry, as TeleRead community members know from Chris Meadows’ posts. And now here’s some fresh, helpful reassurance from eReader/Fictionwise’s Scott Pendergrast. “We are hard at work on a Blackberry version of the reader,” he tells an FW e-...

How much should e-books cost if they don’t require facilities like the one in the photo? An interesting thread over at MobileRead has generated a lot of thoughtful comment from the e-book reading Internet community. People keep saying that e-books, with their lack of physical medium, need for ...

Dear Author is starting a series on “how to convert ebooks into formats that work on dedicated and multi function devices.” Kindle- and Sony-related posts almost surely will be coming. But today’s tips focus on the eReader format as a destination. Then you can use the eReader progr...

Steve Pendergrast of Fictionwise has reported that iPhones seem to be siphoning off Kindle users. In the last version of this article, I wrote that that the overall state of iPhone e-book options still seemed rather primitive. Since then, all the clients I have reviewed have improved—in some cases...