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• 4 Publishers Agree to Sale of E-Books on Yahoo

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/ebusiness/05BOOK.html
  Short announcement about Penguin Putnam, Simon and Schuster, Random House and HarperCollins publishers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Amazon.com Launches e-Books Store

  http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_511051
  News announcement that the online superstore now offers e-books. [E-Commerce News]

• Another Format in the E-Book Field

  http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/06/technology/06BOOK.html
  News of Reciprocal's introduction of another e-book data format. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• AOL Retreats From Big Push for E-Books

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/technology/05BOOK.html
  AOL Time Warner eliminates its iPublish division. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Are Digital Books Good Enough to Curl Up With?

  http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/09/digbooks.idg/index.html
  An overview of how electronic books read and manage e-titles. [PC World]

• Battle Over Access to Online Books

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17LIBR.html
  Librarians' efforts to provide online access to electronic holdings. Free registration required to view.

• Beyond Hypertext: Novels With Interactive Animation

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/arts/05ARTS.html
  Self-published books with electronic artistry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Book Lovers Fail to Click with E-Pages

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0123/p01s03-woeu.html
  Several major booksellers have shelved the idea of selling online editions. [Christian Science Monitor]

• Compressed Data: Tags Could Help Keep E-Book Links Alive

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/technology/18LINK.html
  The use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in e-books. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Copyright Battle: Is an E-Book a Book?

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-257077.html
  News and implications analysis of the lawsuit between Random House and RosettaBooks. [CNet]

• Downloading Literature - E-books change the face of reading

  http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/17/t_t/e.books/
  Electronic books have finally arrived and now represent a challenge to the traditional paper and ink, but how good are they and how do they work? [CNN]

• E-book Devices Yet to Hit Bestseller's List

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-256938.html
  News on the slowly developing e-book hardware devices market. [CNet]

• E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries

  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/snowhill/07snowhill.html
  An overview of e-book issues, based on a development strategy for the University of California libraries. [D-Lib Magazine]

• E-books Remain Niche Reads

  http://news.cnet.com/2009-1023-257030.html
  The e-book market is hampered by immature, expensive technology and a limited number of people willing to consider reading books on electronic devices. [CNet]

• Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated

  http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul02/hawkins.htm
  Review of companies, market issues and outlook for the e-book industry. [Online]

• Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/wilson
  Charts the development of portable electronic book hardware. [Ariadne]

• Evolving E-Books Let Authors Answer Critics

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10CASS.html
  News on a Princeton University Press project with adaptive e-books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Exit Gutenberg?

  http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/digitalreader/dr2000-11-16.htm
  Report on the eBook World conference and the future of publishing. [Digital Reader]

• First Monday - Will E-books Change the World?

  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/hillesund/index.html
  Argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society.

• Forbes.com: Simon & Schuster Leads The E-Book Charge

  http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/09/mu1.html
  Early promotional titles sell well.

• Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/technology/ebusiness/28EBOO.html
  Cases of the slow growth of the e-book industry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Getting a Read on E-Books

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-232672.html
  Electronic books have been slow to catch on among consumers, but big Internet companies are betting that the time for e-books has come. [CNet]

• In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21BOOK.html
  Digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. [requires free nytimes.com registration to read]

• Is Digital Publishing Taking Off?

  http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_738451
  An update on recent e-book business deals. [InternetNews]

• Is This the End of the Story for Books?

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/20book.html
  "Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way." Free registration required. [NY Times]

• Mystery of E-Books: Who Reads Them?

  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/2002/05/08/ebooks.htm
  Report on the suggestion that anybody actually reads e-books. [USA Today]

• Publisher's Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/technology/19BAEN.html
  A look at some companies making money with online books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Racing to Convert Books to Bytes

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/09book.html
  Meeting the rising demand for online access to books. Free registration required. [NY Times]

• Random House Sues Over Rights to Publishing E-Books

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/28/technology/28BOOK.html
  News of a lawsuit over the digital sales of books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Rebooted Any Good Books Lately?

  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/technology/04BOOK.html
  A lengthy overview of electronic book readers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Report: E-Book Industry Set to Explode

  http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6215.html
  Announcement of the report "Electronic Publishing Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004: Digital Books and Print on Demand." [E-Commerce Times]

• Stephen King's Net Horror Story

  http://slashdot.org/features/00/11/30/1238204.shtml
  An interpretation of the demise of "The Plant." [Slashdot]

• Struggles Over E-Books Abound

  http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27BOOK.html
  A detailed analysis of the electronic book business. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

• Textbook Publisher Sees Future in E-Books

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-254119.html
  Harcourt College Publishers inks a deal with e-book company goReader to offer electronic college textbooks. [CNet]

• The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World

  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/index.html
  A thorough look at the competing economic, technological, and social factors influencing the development of e-books. [First Monday]

• The End of Books?

  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/apr/09/highereducation.students2
  Simon Midgley wonders whether hard-up students will need to buy textbooks in a few years' time. [Guardian Unlimited]

• The Future of Books

  http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-02.html
  Summarizes a bits vs. books argument. [Wired]

• The Future of the Book

  http://www.salon.com/2000/03/29/future_3/
  A series of articles examines how the digital revolution is changing what and how we read. [Salon]

• The Good E-Book

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000604mag-ebook.html
  A thoughtful look at the e-book movement, concluding "Can anyone really be against that?" Free registration required. [NY Times]

• The Story Of E-Books

  http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/31/feat2.html
  Current business efforts to move e-books to the mainstream. [Forbes]

• Will We Ever Want E-Books?

  http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/14735.html
  Commentary on why consumers don't want or need e-books. [E-Commerce Times]

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