Reading and Writing

"Once digitized, a page of words loses its fixity. It can change every time it's refreshed on a screen. A book page turns into some...

Survey from: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-ebook-buyers-discover-ebooks/

Do writers write solely for the money? "Even for those of us lucky enough to have won a book deal, being an author is a pretty ghastly ...

Author Paolo Coelho finds riches in piracy: "His view is that letting people swap digital copies of his book increases sales. He gives ...

"Digitization has transformed both the work of the writer and the distribution of the book. Technological changes have called into ques...

In case you had better things to do last Friday, here are excerpts of some of the book panels that took place that day, starting with a titl...

An interesting survey from China: "A growing number of Chinese people have turned to digital reading, a trend insiders said will great...

Quill and Quire points out to the oncoming revolution that e-books are about to bring to what we read and write. With the growing onslaught...

All this talk about the Internet being a great democratizer of ideas, access, and reach proves meaningless for writers who create in languag...

The British Library will offer tens of thousands of public domain books for download. You can read them too... if you have a Kindle. MORE th...

Market research survey results: E-Reader satisfaction is high among owners, according to a new report e-Reader Owners: Attitudes and Usage f...

Close to 200 years ago, a writer wrote in his historical novel... Torture was then so rooted in the practice of justice that the beneficial ...