Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.

Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the growth we’ve seen in the space, you can argue that it might be missing a trick.

With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years ago…

Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to a “flat” content model, where a printed book is only one of many output options. The digital publisher of DK also said that companies like his need…

E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new owners began filling gifted gadgets with titles.

In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab.

When you unwrap your new Kindle on Christmas morning and are wondering what to read first, may I suggest Her Royal Majesty’s Christmas Day speech? It’s free.

If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector?

Though the e-book phenomenon is now taking off around the world, Chinese e-reader sales actually fell 5.1 percent, according to Analysys International’s Enfodesk.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has released a real number for how many Kindles are selling. Well, sort of.

The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when it launches it own e-book platform later this month.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as January of next year.

HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all handset makers, as forecasts go up for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) based on strong iPhone sales. However, iPad tablets are not getting the same treatment, and…

It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today it’s announcing two more countries to the list where it sells its keyboard-free Kindle e-reader, Spain and Italy, where it will sell for €99 ($133),…

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

After a disastrous wireless turn from HP (NYSE: HPQ) that culminated last week with HP taking a charge of $1.66 billion to wind down its webOS mobile platform operation, HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, has finally put a date on when the company will announce the fate of webOS: in the…

A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimously decided that it can go ahead with sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, possibly as soon as Friday. But even with sales getting the all-clear, some…

Android device makers, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and (catastrophically) HP (NYSE: HPQ) have made little dent so far in the tablet market, currently dominated by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the iPad, and a new report out today from Forrester says that you may as well add Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to that…

Could there be a little glimmer of light at the end of the tablet injunction tunnel for Samsung in Australia? With Christmas now exactly one month away, a panel of appeals judges in Sydney is considering overturning the order that has prohibited Samsung from launching its 10.1-inch tablet in the…