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  The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/index.html
A thorough look at the competing economic, technological, and social factors influencing the development of e-books. [First Monday]
  E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/snowhill/07snowhill.html
An overview of e-book issues, based on a development strategy for the University of California libraries. [D-Lib Magazine]
  Compressed Data: Tags Could Help Keep E-Book Links Alive - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/technology/18LINK.html
The use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in e-books. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Measuring the Use and Value of Electronic Journals and Books - http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article1.html
Report on how libraries can gauge patron usage of electronic materials. [UCSB Library]
  Evolution of Portable Electronic Books - http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/wilson/
Charts the development of portable electronic book hardware. [Ariadne]
  Rebooted Any Good Books Lately? - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/technology/04BOOK.html
A lengthy overview of electronic book readers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  E-textbooks Clicking with Colleges - http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/30/coolsc.ebooks/
Cases of the appeal of e-books. [CNN]
  Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated - http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul02/hawkins.htm
Review of companies, market issues and outlook for the e-book industry. [Online]
  Battle Over Access to Online Books - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17LIBR.html
Librarians' efforts to provide online access to electronic holdings. Free registration required to view.
  The Future of Books - http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-02.html
Summarizes a bits vs. books argument. [Wired]
  E-Books Take Off - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june00/e-books_3-16.html
An interview examining the impact and future of e-books. [PBS NewsHour]
  E-Books Live On After Mighty Fall - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/12/49184
Profiles successful electronic text projects where reading and sales are stronger than ever. [Wired]
  Random House Sues Over Rights to Publishing E-Books - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/28/technology/28BOOK.html
News of a lawsuit over the digital sales of books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Stephen King's Net Horror Story - http://slashdot.org/features/00/11/30/1238204.shtml
An interpretation of the demise of "The Plant." [Slashdot]
  The End of Books? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4389510,00.html
Simon Midgley wonders whether hard-up students will need to buy textbooks in a few years' time. [Guardian Unlimited]
  Authors, Agents on E-Books' Side - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/04/43077
Analysis of an upcoming lawsuit over the interpretation of book contracts. [Wired]
  E-Books Turn Over a New Leaf - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/12/33268
Report on the Open E-book Publication Structure. [Wired]
  From P-Books to E-Books - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/01/33488
Microsoft and Barnes and Noble's e-book plans. [Wired]
  Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/technology/ebusiness/28EBOO.html
Cases of the slow growth of the e-book industry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  What if E-Books Cost Less? - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/41633
Examines the dropping prices and costs of e-book readers and titles. [Wired]
  A Bad Ending for E-Authors - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/11/40086
MightyWords is eliminating many of its authors from its e-publishing program. [Wired]
  E-Books Are Now on the Shelf - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/42021
News an analysis of a pilot program to sell electronic books in stores. [Wired]
  E-Book Forecast: Cloudy - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/01/40984
News analysis of the slow adoption of e-books. [Wired]
  The E-Book as Print-Edition Ad - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/04/42751
Report on advertisements within e-books. [Wired News]
  How to Crack Open an E-Book - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/04/43401
Gemstar's RocketBook encryption methods have apparently been hacked. [Wired]
  Copyright Battle: Is an E-Book a Book? - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-257077.html
News and implications analysis of the lawsuit between Random House and RosettaBooks. [CNet]
  Getting a Read on New E-Books - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/12/40470
A report on a new generation of e-book reader hardware. [Wired]
  E-book Devices Yet to Hit Bestseller's List - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-256938.html
News on the slowly developing e-book hardware devices market. [CNet]
  A New Chapter for E-Books - http://www.businessweek.com/1998/44/b3602055.htm
Briefly outlines the history of e-books and details the technology currently on the market. [BusinessWeek]
  Textbook Publisher Sees Future in E-Books - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-254119.html
Harcourt College Publishers inks a deal with e-book company goReader to offer electronic college textbooks. [CNet]
  Another Format in the E-Book Field - http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/06/technology/06BOOK.html
News of Reciprocal's introduction of another e-book data format. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Downloading Literature - E-books change the face of reading - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/17/t_t/e.books/
Electronic books have finally arrived and now represent a challenge to the traditional paper and ink, but how good are they and how do they work? [CNN]
  Who Can Dig Digital Books? - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/05/35920
New usability research on electronic books. [Wired]
  The Good E-Book - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000604mag-ebook.html
A thoughtful look at the e-book movement, concluding "Can anyone really be against that?" Free registration required. [NY Times]
  E-Book Conference Illuminates Issues - http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/1999columns1/november1999.cfm
Report and overview of the second annual Electronic Book Conference. [American Library Association]
  E-Book Vendors Look To Libraries for Growth - http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA250713.html
While consumer e-book sales continue their incremental growth, digital publishers and e-publishing service vendors are looking to libraries and their patrons to add to sales. [Publishers Weekly]
  E-Books: The Next Killer App - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/09/21550
For 50 years, tech gurus have promised that the next invention will make paper books obsolete. But the buzz on e-books means this time, the hour may be nigh. [Wired]
  Stephen King E-Book Pirated - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-519549.html
Copies of Stephen King's novella "Riding the Bullet" may have been decrypted by hackers. [ZDNet]
  Is Digital Publishing Taking Off? - http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_738451
An update on recent e-book business deals. [InternetNews]
  Forbes.com: Simon & Schuster Leads The E-Book Charge - http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/09/mu1.html
Early promotional titles sell well.
  The Story Of E-Books - http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/31/feat2.html
Current business efforts to move e-books to the mainstream. [Forbes]
  Mystery of E-Books: Who Reads Them? - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/2002/05/08/ebooks.htm
Report on the suggestion that anybody actually reads e-books. [USA Today]
  Report: E-Book Industry Set to Explode - http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6215.html
Announcement of the report "Electronic Publishing Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004: Digital Books and Print on Demand." [E-Commerce Times]
  E-Books Target Pricey Print Books - http://www.pcworld.com/article/10481/ebooks_target_pricey_print_books.html
Explains the technology from two vendors to be used to read e-books. [PC World]
  An Electrifying Read - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/22/BU72923.DTL
Explains some of the current e-book technology and how it works. [SF Gate]
  Amazon.com Launches e-Books Store - http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_511051
News announcement that the online superstore now offers e-books. [E-Commerce News]
  A University that Reveres Tradition Experiments with E-Books - http://chronicle.com/free/2001/05/2001051101t.htm
A University of Virginia seminar's trials with e-book readers. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
  First Monday - Will E-books Change the World? - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/hillesund/index.html
Argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society.
  E-books Draw Crowds, No Converts - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/05/19469
Visitors to BookExpo America 1999 circle around the e-book booths, but few are buying - yet. [Wired]
  E-Books Taking Shape - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/05/19870
The market for electronic books has been sluggish thus far, but the announcement of an e-book standard might encourage more authors and readers to make the shift. [Wired]
  Are Digital Books Good Enough to Curl Up With? - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/09/digbooks.idg/index.html
An overview of how electronic books read and manage e-titles. [PC World]
  Racing to Convert Books to Bytes - http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/09book.html
Meeting the rising demand for online access to books. Free registration required. [NY Times]
  Is This the End of the Story for Books? - http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/20book.html
"Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way." Free registration required. [NY Times]
  Beyond Hypertext: Novels With Interactive Animation - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/arts/05ARTS.html
Self-published books with electronic artistry. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Publisher's Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/technology/19BAEN.html
A look at some companies making money with online books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  The Bearable Lightness of E-Books - http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2001/nf20010322_286.htm
An introduction to the capabilities of e-book readers. [CBC]
  Struggles Over E-Books Abound - http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27BOOK.html
A detailed analysis of the electronic book business. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Book Lovers Fail to Click with E-Pages - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0123/p01s03-woeu.html
Several major booksellers have shelved the idea of selling online editions. [Christian Science Monitor]
  The King of E-Books - http://www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/rose.html
Discusses the success of Stephen King's first foray into e-books and what it may mean for the future. [Spark-Online]
  4 Publishers Agree to Sale of E-Books on Yahoo - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/ebusiness/05BOOK.html
Short announcement about Penguin Putnam, Simon and Schuster, Random House and HarperCollins publishers. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/12/49297
Review of industry disappointments and prospects. [Wired]
  Exit Gutenberg? - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digitalreader/dr2000-11-16.htm
Report on the eBook World conference and the future of publishing. [Digital Reader]
  Electronic Books for All - http://www.pcworld.com/article/10864/electronic_books_for_all.html
Glassbook will offer a standard way to download e-books from bookstores or libraries. [PC World]
  U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Free-lancers - http://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/25/scotus.copyright/
Writers may control whether articles they sold for print in a regular newspaper or magazine may be reproduced in electronic form. [CNN]
  EBooks Are Not Just For Reading - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/06/ebook.perks.idg/
Adding handwritten notes to the Rocket eBook. [CNN]
  The E-Book Wars - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/25/salon.ebooks/index.html
News of the major publishing houses taking over the e-book publishing industry. [CNN]
  Will We Ever Want E-Books? - http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/14735.html
Commentary on why consumers don't want or need e-books. [E-Commerce Times]
  E-Books Go to College - http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA213862
A survey of students in two college courses grades e-book devices and their function in higher education. [Library Journal]
  Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds - http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082601t.htm
Report on a study at Ball State University. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the E-Book - http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/inetlibrarian/2000columns/may2000funny.cfm
An overview of e-book business issues such as copyright protection. [American Libraries]
  In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21BOOK.html
Digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. [requires free nytimes.com registration to read]
  The Future of the Book - http://archive.salon.com/books/special/2000/03/29/future/
A series of articles examines how the digital revolution is changing what and how we read. [Salon]
  Publishers Embrace E-Books at Confab - http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA83537.html
Report of publishing companies' involvement with e-books. [Publishers Weekly]
  A "Revolution" Waiting to Happen? - http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA169008.html
A look at the current efforts of e-book publishers, with a focus on children's books. [Publishers Weekly]
  E-Publishing: Tomorrow's Publishers Today - http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA168082.html
An annotated list of some online publishers. [Publishers Weekly]
  AOL Retreats From Big Push for E-Books - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/technology/05BOOK.html
AOL Time Warner eliminates its iPublish division. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Deadbeats Prompt King To Yank Internet Book - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1570-2000Nov28
Stephen King has pulled the plug on his self-published online serial novel. [Washington Post]
  Move Over, Gutenberg. Please. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A24452-2000Sep26
Report on the conference "Electronic Book 2000: Changing the Fundamentals of Reading." [Washington Post]
  Evolving E-Books Let Authors Answer Critics - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10CASS.html
News on a Princeton University Press project with adaptive e-books. Free registration required. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.
  Getting a Read on E-Books - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-232672.html
Electronic books have been slow to catch on among consumers, but big Internet companies are betting that the time for e-books has come. [CNet]
  E-books Remain Niche Reads - http://news.cnet.com/2009-1023-257030.html
The e-book market is hampered by immature, expensive technology and a limited number of people willing to consider reading books on electronic devices. [CNet]

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