Plastic Logic

This holiday season's must-have gift is the electronic reader, and Amazon's (AMZN) optimism remains on high after reporting that Kindle sales in November were the "best" ever. But is the e-reader's time really now? Or will consumers make a choice that they'll bitterly regret in 12 months?

AT&T (T) CEO Randall Stephenson said his company may have missed an opportunity with Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle book reader. Instead the company will provide wireless access for Plastic Logic's ebook reader. "I'm an avid Kindle user," Stephenson said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in...

There's something about books. For a guy like me, raised in a pre-Kindle, pre-personal computer world, they represent an information delivery system that is convenient, portable, and remarkably sensual. Admittedly, leather-bound first editions have a mystique all their own, but even the most humble...

America's biggest newspaper is headed to a computer screen near you. USA Today is launching a new electronic edition on Aug. 3, publisher David Hunke revealed this morning at a press breakfast. "We have prototypes that we like a lot that are very unique to USA Today," said Hunke, who joined the...

Barnes & Noble (BKS), the nation's largest brick-and-mortar bookstore chain, announced yesterday that is has purchased the second- largest distributor, of e-books, Fictionwise, for $15 .7 million in cash. The acquisition brings to Barnes & Noble a catalog of over 60,000 titles formatted...