E-books News

According to a study by Pure Research Center, traditional books remain the first preference for 72% of book enthusiasts in the past year, while only 27% prefer e-books. 

Amazon is by far the largest seller of both physical and e-books, commanding well over half of sales in the United States and, by some estimates, over 80% of the e-book market. Its Kindle Direct Publishing service has spawned a cottage industry of self-published novelists, carving out particular niches for enthusiasts of erotic content and self-help books.

Bringing Sindhi language on to the digital platform, the National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing released software tools and e-books in Sindhi to mark the 50th Sindhi Basha Diwas here on Monday.

A South Korean startup has developed an affordable Braille smartwatch which allows the visually impaired to receive and read text messages in real time and even read e-books.

U.S. Department of Justice by finding that Apple had played a "central role" in conspiring to raise e-book prices and impede rivals such as Amazon.com Inc.

With budgetary exercise underway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked his ministerial colleagues to get "out of the box" ideas from the common man which could be incorporated in the financial outlay.

Apple Inc has agreed to pay USD 450 million to resolve U.S. state and consumer claims the iPad manufacturer conspired with five major publishers to fix e-book prices, according to court records filed Wednesday.

Amazon.com accounts for some 60 percent of Hachette`s digital sales.