Engadget’s report was later cited by many press sources, including Daily Variety, as an indication that Apple was not only building an iPod with an e-book reader, or e-reader, but may be preparing to announce such a device as soon as this September. As a result, for a manufacturer like Sony to acquire the rights to produce e-reader versions of even less-than-popular titles, has taken years, not months, and the negotiating process has been something less than clandestine....

Although PDF is the standard in the paper-free yet easily printable delivery of information, Adobe has unveiled ‘Digital Editions 1.0’, an improved and free e-reader that lets you easily ‘acquire, manage and read’ digital books and documents on PCs and Macs. Comaptible with PDF documents, XML documents and Adobe’s own Flash format, Digital Editions 1.0 is a new e-reader, available now as an approx 2.5Mb free download for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher....

Previously, Sony’s eReader was locked to the Sony store similar to the way the Kindle is locked to Amazon’s store and could only read books from the Sony store, .pdf and DRM-free text. The next version of the eReader (the PRS-505) will support the new formats straight out of the box and existing owners can download the update as of today....

Due to the arrival of Polymer Vision’s Readius pocket-sized e-reader and other such products, iSuppli forecasts the total flexible display market will reach $2.8 billion by 2013, a 35-times expansion from about $80 million in 2007....

Could the iPhone Kill the Kindle?. Kindle iPhone ereader electronic books. According to a recent report on Forbes.com, one particular iPhone application is stepping on the toes of the Kindle ebook reader. So much so, speculation suggests the app will ...