E-Books

Apple has denied that it conspired with publishers to fix the price of e-books after the launch of the iPad, as the trial in New York gets under way.

Walter Isaacson's biography of the recently deceased Steve Jobs rocketed to the top of Amazon's best-selling book list and stayed there.
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Amazon is negotiating with publishers to launch a "Netflix-for-books" type service.
Consumers would pay an annual fee to be given access ......

Amazon has begun renting textbooks that can be read on its popular Kindle e-reader.
The giant e-tailer says you can now rent tens of thousands ......

J.K. Rowling, the billionaire author behind 'Harry Potter' has confirmed that the global blockbuster series is finally coming in e-book form.
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Amazon has said this week that the Kindle e-reader will finally allow customers to borrow books from 11,000 U.S. libraries, beginning later in the year.
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