Google has announced that its "Editions" e-book store will be going live in late June or early July. The service, which was announced back in October 2009, will offer up a catalogue of around half a million titles from a range of publishers.

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A charity called Worldreader.org, which is attempting to boost literacy rates in the third world using technology, has persuaded Amazon to send a big pile of Kindle ereaders over to Africa.

Ghana's Ministry of Education is running a trial to...

Keeping the Asus-will-launch-Eee-Reader rumours alive, Taiwanese industry news site DigiTimes has Asus' big cheese on record saying the e-book reading device is in the "final development stages".

In a wider piece about Asus' laptop and netbook...

Although it's more of a report than an official release at this stage, it seems the Readius e-paper mobile phone's future is now assured.

Polymer Vision, the company behind the phone's futuristic design, was been closed down by its Dutch...

UK users have given e-book readers the thumbs up in a recent YouGov survey, but are dissatisfied with the current content available.

The new research, "The E-Reader Experience", reveals that clarity of screen, physical size and weight and...

Back in 1994, when this video was produced, one speaking head says, "It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper", but claims it's the future.

Predicting both the current gen of Kindle-esque eBook readers, as well as...