The deal will make a half million copyright-free books available for Sony's Reader device, a rival to Amazon.com's Kindle. ...

Sony's Reader, Amazon's Kindle are the hot potatoes of the publishing industry today. Is E-ink going to supplant the real one? I've never had an online avatar. I am just not much of a Second Life person. Best I can do is try not to mess up my First, but if I ever did go looking for another incarnation, chances are I would be a book. Collectively, they have had one of the most profound effects on ......

Safety experts are raising concerns about lead levels in children's library books printed before 1986. But as NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner reported Wednesday, the American Library Association says parents should not be alarmed....

Local library officials are following the lead of the American Library Association on the issue of a new safety law that may require pulling children's books printed before 1985 from shelves to test lead levels....

NANOOSE BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 18, 2009) - On behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, James Lunney, Member of Parliament (Nanaimo-Alberni), today announced funding for Heritage House Publishing Company. Heritage House received this contribution to develop a customized business plan to upgrade their website and develop a ......

Media company Discovery Communications Inc has sued Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer's Kindle of infringing its patent on electronic book technology....

SAN JOSE, Calif.----Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware storage systems, today announced that Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality books, selected the Pillar Axiom™ Storage System to archive hundreds of thousands of pages of text and graphics....

Media company Discovery Communications Inc has sued Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer's Kindle of infringing its patent on electronic book technology....

Thomas Friedman suggests the recession is a symptom of a more fundamental problem with "the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years." But he calls himself an optimist, and sees the slowdown as an opportunity to reorient the economy for smarter future growth....

WINNIPEG (CUP)—As Amazon releases the latest version of their e-book reader, the Kindle 2, some wonder what will happen to the publishing industry. Chad Friesen of Friesens publishing in Altona, Manitoba, acknowledges that some aspects of the industry will be more affected than others. read more ...