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Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...

It's nearly summertime. How do I know? Not, of course, by looking at the iffy British weather outside, but because Google's Summer o...

Here's a particularly stupid move by Amazon: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with A...

Here's some interesting news about Barnes & Noble's e-reader: The reader, named the “Nook,” looks a lot like Amazon’s white pla...

Amazon's Kindle runs GNU/Linux, which is no surprise given its suitability for these kind of consumer systems. The Kindle is fast establ...

It's extraordinary how much that formerly-drab old subject of copyright is in the news these days. There's the Amazon Kindle story...

As you've probably seen, there is concern over Amazon's plans to pull the text-to-voice capability of the Kindle e-book reader, beca...

Here's someone writing in the New York Times about the Kindle's text-to-speech function: You may be thinking that no automated rea...

I'm not a Kindle user. In part, because it's not available in the UK, but also because it seems too closed in terms of its overall ...

The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindl...

There's one of Steven Levy's finer big pieces in Newsweek about Amazon's new Kindle e-book device. It all sounds pretty cool,...