Google Books has been updated and this one should come as a welcomed update for those who find themselves wanting to read offline. Yup, Google has rolled-out offline reading support within Google Books. But that being said, there are some points that you will need to know up front. To begin with, in order to more »

You may not have known this, but when Borders closed down, Barnes & Noble purchased some of its assets. Among those assets were some trademarks and a complete customer list. The list includes customer purchases and their email addresses. Credit card information was not a part of the sale. If you don’t want B&N to have access to your information, you have the opportunity to opt out by November 2, 2011. That doesn’t mean B&N won’t try its best to convince you to stick around.

Steve Jobs’ biography written by Walter Isaacson wasn’t intended to be released until November 21, but Simon & Schuster has decided to push up the release date. The book, simply titled “Steve Jobs” is now scheduled for release on October 24. The push comes after pre-orders of the book shot it up to the number more »

The back-to-school season has officially started. One advantage of being a student these days over the past is relying less on physical books. Now you just have to grab an eReader and you’re good to go. Barnes & Noble wants its collection of Nooks to be on your back-to-school shopping list and its willing to give up over $100 in content for the privilage.

Today is when Borders starts it’s liquidation sales, but not before sending out an email to customers explaining what happened. It’s easy to poke fun at the bookstore for not being able to keep up, but the email that was sent out was actually pretty sad, and sounds heartfelt. In the email Borders explains everything more »

Amazon will be starting up the Kindle Library Lending service soon that may completely change how we check out books from the library. Through this service, 11,000 libraries will allow devices with the Kindle app to digitally checkout books at a moment’s notice. Notes can also be taken within the books and saved using Whispersync. 3M Library Systems will launch a similar service this year called the 3M Cloud Library.

When asked about the possibility of an Amazon tablet, company President and CEO Jeff Bezos said to “stay tuned” as plans are unveiled. In an interview with Customer Reports, Bezos claimed that an Amazon tablet would simply act as a supplement to the wildly popular Kindle eReader. This could also be Amazon’s way to split more »

When Apple introduced the iPad as a ebook reader, it had most of the major book publishers sign on to put their books into the iBooks store. As a result, many of those same companies tried to pressure Amazon into using the “agency model” for ebook prices. The publishers wanted Amazon to let them set more »

Digital books have become a fad in their own right. The Kindle, Nook, and even the iPad have all dedicated their services to consuming these goods. Up until now, the Kindle has dominated the space due to the fact that there were no real competitors. But according to Digitimes, the Kindle has some real competition more »

It looks as though it is possible that schools will soon start phasing out traditional textbooks and instead rely on tech products like Kindle and iPhone to provide course materials. A pilot project in Oklahoma City at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center is giving e-readers and smartphones to students as a way to determine the more »