The eBook market just a bit more interesting as Kobo, the third major platform has been acquired by Japanese company Rakuten. The deal has Rakuten buying 100 percent of Kobo for $315 million. Kobo and all it’s employees will remain as they were, with the deal mostly down to expand Kobo’s reach internationally. Rakuten not more »

When Pottermore launches we’ll finally get a chance to buy Harry Potter books in eBook form, but it seems that might not happen until 2012. For the rest of 2011 there’s a chance that in order to buy Harry Potter eBooks you need to buy a new Sony Reader. According to The Register, Sony is more »

Amazon’s vice president of Kindle Content, Russ Grandinetti issued a statement clarifying that the reason why the Amazon Kindle device is dominating e-reader market and its e-book store dominating the e-books marke is because of the fact that the Kindle is well loved by users who are actually readers and not just gadget lovers. It’s more »

The Micro Cruz Reader and Micro Cruz Tablet from Velocity have come available for pre-order. As of now the devices are available on the Velocity website as well as with Borders. The Micro Cruz Reader is priced at $199.99 and expected to ship September 30th and the Micro Cruz Tablet is priced at $299.99 and more »

Now with a new survey on Media Influence, bloggers can no longer revel in the belief they exist in a vacuum where they can make fun of just about anything and get away with it.

See what influence this survey says blogs have over you.