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Navigate efficiently through Black Friday mobs or even avoid the masses all together by using your iPhone. A simple download can save both cash and chaos. The following featured apps are free and designed to make shopping easier, especially on stressful days like Nov. 26. While many face the cold...

We know you've barely had a chance to put back to school sales behind you, but it's already time to start looking at what will be on sale on Black Friday 2010. As always, the team at WalletPop is gearing up to deliver the best Black Friday deals and to do so we called up our favorite Black Friday...

Electronic book prices set by Apple, Inc. and Amazon.com, the leading eBook sellers, hurt smaller competitors and are unfair to consumers, says Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in a letter he sent this week to the two companies. The letters are a tool in Blumenthal's just-launched...

If you're were thinking of ordering one of Amazon's brand-new Kindle e-readers, get in line. Just five days after announcing the new Kindle 3G Kindle WiFi models, both devices are sold out, and anyone who pre-orders now won't get one until Sept. 4, a week after the original ship date.

Book publisher Penguin has had a very good year so far in 2010, according to its breakout numbers from parent company Pearson's most recent sales report. Sales at Penguin for the period ending June 30 rose 9%, while operating profit more than doubled compared to a year ago.

The latest frenzy about online copyright issues has arisen over Flipboard, a remarkable iPad app that takes feeds from Facebook and Twitter and pulls the content from their links into an easy-to-read and eye-poppingly attractive magazine format. It could revolutionize the online news business, and not a moment to soon.

In another sign that dead tree media is, well, dying, Amazon.com, the largest book retailer, announced that for the first time, sales of ebooks exceeded the number of hardcovers sold. Amazon sold 143 ebooks for every 100 hardcovers sold during the second quarter of this year. The Kindle Store...

With the stock plunging and a trial between key shareholder Ron Burkle and top company execs heading to court, signs point ever more clearly to the possibility that Barnes & Noble will go private. And that just might be the right move.

A new study says it takes longer to read books on Apple's iPad or Amazon's Kindle than printed books. Product development consultant Jakob Nielsen of California's Nielsen Norman Group says reading speeds dropped 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7% on the Kindle compared to print. The study couldn't tell...

The launch of the Apple iPad has led to a second round of forecasts predicting market growth for e-books. Analysts expect the iPad will outcompete the Kindle. But are forecasts of plunging market share for Amazon premature?