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Photo Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.

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Anticipating the arrival of fresh competition, Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday slashed the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader by $40 to $259

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Against rising competition, Amazon.com is cutting the price of the Kindle and taking its popular electronic reader overseas. On Wednesday, Kindle prices drop $40 to $259, the second price cut in three months.

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On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe's best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.

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They may be cheaper and more convenient, writes Andrew Keen, but ebooks do not represent meaningful cultural progress.

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I would subscribe to newspapers or magazines if they were inexpensive and they would easily format to my device. Juanita you are spot on! Now I have to read them on my computer, which is not always convenient.

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This is a very interesting look at the effect of Kindle and other ebook systems on the book industry.

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A class action lawsuit filed today takes Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) to task after the company deleted George Orwell books from customers' Kindles.

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The author of this piece, Larry Magid, appears to have had a vastly better experience with existing eBook Readers than I have. That said, I think I agree with his main point - that better technology and less DRM will one day make digital libraries the norm.

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How much of every Kindle does Amazon own after it is sold? You may be a bit confounded by this question. But every Kindle owner, who downloaded either of George Orwell's famous books Nineteen Eighty-four or Animal Farm, or both, must have that question on their mind.

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The move is the first price drop on any Kindle since the original was reduced to $359 and puts a larger gap between this and the larger Kindle DX, which still sits at its original $489 price.

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California is in trouble, that much is plain. The state is facing a more than $24 billion budget deficit, and lawmakers have been tossing around a number of extreme measures to meet it. Close 220 of the state's 279 state parks. Release prison inmates early.

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So what does it mean? in one word: competition. Is it good for readers? definitely. Is it good for publishers? absolutely. Is it good for the environment? hopefully.

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In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google.

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As customers leave Sprint in droves, the wireless carrier needs all the help it can get.

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Amazon is holding a press event on Wednesday, and the rumor mill has reached a consensus: it's set to release a large-format reader, more suitable to book and magazine content.

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Electronic books may be the fastest growing segment of the publishing world, but some authors are still not interested in participating. You won't, for instance, find any of the Harry Potter novels in digital format.

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All you really need to know about the dangers of digital commodification you learned in kindergarten. Think back. Remember swapping your baloney sandwich for Jell-o pudding? Now, imagine handing over your sandwich and getting just a spoon.

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Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world's largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today.

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While Amazon might be able to find a market for $9.99 books on the Kindle, the iPhone-iPod Touch world is a very different place. Very few people are willing to pay that kind of money for any sort of application, let alone an e-book.

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Once the company gets to scale, if Amazon can get 6 million subscribers who buy two books a month (or 1 book and a newspaper subscription), Amazon could make $0.42 -- almost one-third of this year's EPS -- from the Kindle, Khan says.

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Having used both Kindles 1 and 2, I thought it would helpful to list where the new Kindle excels and where it falters.

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Analysts see profits from the new version of Amazon's e-book reader, but they stop short of calling it a major disruptor like Apple's music player.

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At $359 for the Kindle, that's a luxury device anyway you look at it. Like most consumer electronic devices, getting below $200 is key to capturing a more mainstream audience.

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Who needs an e-book reader from Amazon or Sony when you can download tomes to a smartphone, often at a fraction of the cost. Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books.

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