Amazon has purchased Lexcycle, the App developer behind Stanza, their biggest competitor for the Kindle for iPhone App. Stanza is an App that allows users to download e-books to their iPhone (usually at prices similar to the Kindle store) and read them. It has been downloaded over 1 million times, and...

Best-selling author Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons) has announced his latest book. It is called The Lost Symbol and is set for release September 15, 2009. There’s very little information available about the plot, but it will feature Robert Langdon, the main character in Brown’s...

A new Kindle 2 cover has been announced via press release today that has a built-in booklight. The company, called Periscope, has previously made a similar cover for the original Kindle. The new version doesn’t appear to be for sale yet, but has a page on Amazon and is listed at $49.95. I’ve...

The New York Times has an interesting article about how the Kindle and other e-readers are affecting the literary snobbery that goes with displaying shelves full of books or carrying the latest best-seller on the train. One comment by Sara Nelson, the former editor of Publishers Weekly says It’s really...

Having just visited Washington, D.C., this recent New York Times article about the 10 letters a day that get delivered to President Obama was especially interesting to me. The article covers the White House Office of Correspondence and its director Mike Kelleher. They choose 10 letters per day to pass...

A research firm called iSuppli has released information about how much it should cost to manufacture a Kindle 2. BusinessWeek reports on the information saying the grand total is $185.49. Some users and reporters are angry that this estimated cost is only half the price of the device, but the total...

This month’s issue of Wired Magazine (guest-edited by J.J. Abrams) has reviews of four e-readers, including the Kindle 2. It rates the Kindle at an 8, citing the poor PDF support and lack of an SD slot as negatives. The other e-readers reviewed are the Sony PRS-700, the iRex Digital Reader 1000S...

A new e-reader featuring a roll-out screen – similar to rolling out a piece of parchment – has been delayed due to financial issues. The Readius, made by Polymer Vision, is small enough to fit in your back pocket and utilizes the same e-ink technology that the Amazon Kindle and several other...

Less than 24 hours after the Obama family introduced their Portuguese water dog Bo, it was announced that a children’s book titled Bo, America’s Commander in Leash is going to be released later this month. The news came via Amazon’s Omnivoracious Book Blog, barely a full day since...

Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the Amazon best-seller Pride And Prejudice And Zombies is already hard at work on his next novel. Zombies is an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, adding the element of the undead to the original text. According to Entertainment Weekly, Grahame-Smith signed a two-book...