What’s the first place you would go to buy a book? As an ardent book lover, it’s never been easy to get a nice big bookstore to browse. No bookstore can actually be big enough to appease someone...

Google has launched Google eBooks, a webstore for digitized books, with over 3 million Titles. And the search giant insists that a large number of them are free. And while the post on Google’s blog...

In a move aimed at securing its eReader dominance, Amazon has announced that it will increase the revenue split for magazine and newspaper publishers from their former 30%, to a whopping 70% of the retail...

E-readers and the Indian Public There was an article in the Business Standard yesterday that got me wondering. Will e-readers improve the adoption of e-books in India? While the answer might seem an inevitable...

A British company called Interead (which makes an e-book reader, COOL-ER) has tied up with Google and thus becomes the first e-book store outside the US to partner with Google Books. It will now get to...

          Amazon.com, one of the largest online stores, introduced a portable e-book reader back in November last year. The device has been tremendously successful from the...

  These days kids, youngsters and aged people love learning and reading e-books. Keeping in mind the increasing use of Internet, universities like IIT have started their lectures on Youtube. A similar...

I was in college when Google started the Google Books project. That was in December 2007 (Courtesy, the first comment) December 2004. Google announced that it has started to scan and digitize the books...