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Borders Group's recent bankruptcy filing and announced closing of more than 220 stores nationwide seems to warrant a closer look at trends in book retailing.

Something extraordinary happened after Eliana Litos received an e-reader for a Hanukkah gift in December.

Apple Inc. has rejected Sony Corp.'s e-book reader app for the iPhone because it doesn't give people the choice to buy books without leaving the app for a website.

Kobo, the only pure-play global eReading service built on an open platform, today revealed its Holiday 2010 momentum.  This Christmas, readers around the world received new eReaders and iPads and other eReading devices under their tree.   Over a million people connected to Kobo, and hundreds of thousands of devices were activated each day since Christmas Eve, fuelling the highest eBook download rate in the company’s history. 

(Press Release) SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK, November 17, 2010—Bloomsbury USA, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., and RoyaltyShare, Inc., a leading provider of digital revenue management and reporting solutions, today announced that Bloomsbury has selected RoyaltyShare's Digital Advantage for eBooks as its solution for processing and managing eBook transactions and revenue information.

RoyaltyShare, Inc. today announced the launch of Sales Feed Price Validation, an important enhancement to its industry leading Digital Advantage for eBooks™ platform.

Doremisoft Mac PDF to ePub Converter, an impeccable PDF to ePub Converter for Mac eBooks fans, facilitates their reading eBooks on portable eBooks readers like iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch, Sony Reader, after converting PDF documents to ePub.

Sony today announced the inaugural list of 30 participating libraries in the Reader Library Program.

This two-part essay attempts a survey of electronic media developments in the book industry and their impact on the creative talents and skill-sets required of authors, writers, editors and production people in order to produce new forms of content organization and media mix.

Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS forecasted in a recent study that the U.S. market in 2010 for paid e-reader content will be approximately $460.6 million—consisting primarily of e-books sold to a user base of more than 8 million.