Librarians` efforts to provide online access to electronic holdings.

Beyond Hypertext: Novels With Interactive Animation

E-Books Target Pricey Print Books

E-textbooks Clicking with Colleges

First Monday - Will E-books Change the World?

[Wired]

News of a lawsuit over the digital sales of books .

www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6215.html

Free registration required.

The E-Book as Print-Edition Ad

[CNN]

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News announcement that the online superstore now offers e-books. [SF Gate]

[Microsoft]

Book Lovers Fail to Click with E-Pages

[Wired]

www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june00/e-books_3-16.html

Evolving E-Books Let Authors Answer Critics

[Wired]

Commentary against the current hype about electronic books .

Random House Sues Over Rights to Publishing E-Books

A lengthy overview of electronic book readers.

www .nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/27BOOK.html

shelved explode

www.nytimes.com/2000/11/06/technology/06BOOK.html

Analysis of an upcoming lawsuit over the interpretation of book contracts.

publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index .asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA168082

An annotated list of some online publishers.

E-book Sales Lead Off 2003

[Ariadne]

Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature

news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22 -519549.html

An interpretation of the demise of "The Plant.

www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273 ,4389510,00.html

The Future of Books

[E-Commerce Times]

confab internetnews

Several major booksellers have shelved the idea of selling online editions. [CNet]

E-Book Vendors Look To Libraries for Growth

[InformationWeek]

E-Books Taking Shape

E-Publishing: Tomorrow`s Publishers Today

www.publishers.org/press/releases.cfm?PressReleaseArticleID=138

www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/snowhill/07snowhill.html

[Online]

www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33488,00 .html

books argument.

sklyarov illuminates

www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_511051

Are Digital Books Good Enough to Curl Up With?

publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA250713&display=breakingNews &publication=publishersweekly

[Publishers Weekly]

Profiles successful electronic text projects where reading and sales are stronger than ever.

www.networkmagazine.com/article/IWK20010228S0007

[PBS NewsHour]

E-Books Turn Over a New Leaf

[Wired]

An overview of e-book issues, based on a development strategy for the University of California libraries. [NY Times] Free registration required to view. [ZDNet]

chronicle .com/free/2002/08/2002082601t.htm

[CBC]

New usability research on electronic books.

businessweek lightness

[American Libraries]

Briefly outlines the history of e-books and details the technology currently on the market.

www.washingtonpost .com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1570-2000Nov28

Report on the Open E-book Publication Structure.

www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,21550,00.html

news.com.com/2100-1023-256938.html

Glassbook will offer a standard way to download e-books from bookstores or libraries.

Getting a Read on New E-Books

[requires free nytimes.Report on how libraries can gauge patron usage of electronic materials.News of the major publishing houses taking over the e-book publishing industry.

www.wired.com/news/culture /0,1284,42751,00.html

[NY Times]

Today`s Technology: E-book as Superbook?

U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Free-lancers

techsource sklyarov

[Wired]

4 Publishers Agree to Sale of E-Books on Yahoo

Authors, Agents on E-Books` Side

Stephen King has pulled the plug on his self-published online serial novel.Report and overview of the second annual Electronic Book Conference.

E-Books Go to College

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49184,00.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. Free registration required.Microsoft and Barnes and Noble`s e-book plans.

Ignore e-Book Hype ... For Now

Report: E-Book Industry Set to Explode

Stephen King E-Book Pirated

" [Slashdot]

www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/index.html

[First Monday]

archives .cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/25/salon.ebooks/index.html

web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-02.html

www.forbes.com/2000/08/31/feat2.html

[Wired]

shelved anchordesk

Short announcement about Penguin Putnam, Simon and Schuster , Random House and HarperCollins publishers. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

Another Format in the E-Book Field

[Christian Science Monitor]

E-Book Forecast: Cloudy

E-Books Live On After Mighty Fall

But the buzz on e-books means this time, the hour may be nigh.

E-books Remain Niche Reads

slashdot.org /features/00/11/30/1238204.shtml

Summarizes a bits vs. [Wired]

Overview of e-book features.

sklyarov confab

www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9810/09/digbooks.idg/index.html

[NY Times] Free registration required to view.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]

News analysis of the slow adoption of e-books.

www.wired.com/news /culture/0,1284,42021,00.html

www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA213862

wired -vig.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40470,00.html

www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/20book .html

Report on the suggestion that anybody actually reads e-books. [NY Times] Free registration required to view. [CNet]

[Library Journal]

Current business efforts to move e-books to the mainstream.

archives .cnn.com/2001/LAW/06/25/scotus.copyright/

Examines the dropping prices and costs of e-book readers and titles.

www.ecommercetimes.com/story/14735.html

hampered internetnews

Amazon.com Launches e-Books Store

An overview of how electronic books read and manage e-titles.

E-Books Are Now on the Shelf

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33268,00 .html

[Wired]

An update on recent e-book business deals. Free registration required. Free registration required. [Spark-Online]

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41633,00.html

Commentary on why paper books rule.

hardcover internetnews

[BusinessWeek]

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/22/BU72923.DTL

www.csmonitor.com/2002/0123/p01s03-woeu.html

Compressed Data: Tags Could Help Keep E-Book Links Alive

www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/17/t_t/e.books/

An interview examining the impact and future of e-books .

E-book Devices Yet to Hit Bestseller`s List

[PC World]

Report on the eBook World conference and the future of publishing. [Digital Reader]

Forbes.com: Electronic Page-Turners

A report on a new generation of e -book reader hardware.

Is This the End of the Story for Books?

The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World

www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2001/nf20010322_286.htm

Writers may control whether articles they sold for print in a regular newspaper or magazine may be reproduced in electronic form.

wired confab

www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/ebusiness/05BOOK.html

[Publishers Weekly]

A University of Virginia seminar`s trials with e-book readers.Explains some of the current e-book technology and how it works.

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft to Create e-Book Superstore

www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/technology /18LINK.html

[Washington Post]

For 50 years, tech gurus have promised that the next invention will make paper books obsolete. [InternetNews]

"Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way. [NY Times]

[NY Times] Free registration required to view.

Textbook Publisher Sees Future in E-Books

A thoughtful look at the e-book movement, concluding "Can anyone really be against that?" Free registration required.

www.spark-online.com/april00/trends/rose.html

www.wired .com/news/technology/0,1282,35920,00.html

[Wired]

illuminates explode

AOL Time Warner eliminates its iPublish division.

E-Books Still A Market-In-Waiting

www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=10864

Cases of the slow growth of the e -book industry.Gemstar`s RocketBook encryption methods have apparently been hacked.

www.nytimes.com/2002 /02/21/technology/circuits/21BOOK.html

A look at some companies making money with online books.

Racing to Convert Books to Bytes

news.com.com/2100-1023-254119.html

The E-Book Wars

[Wired News]

[Guardian Unlimited]

dir.salon.com/books/special/2000/03/29/future/index.html

A series of articles examines how the digital revolution is changing what and how we read.

deadbeats techsource

[Wired]

An Electrifying Read

Copyright Battle: Is an E-Book a Book?

[D-Lib Magazine]

archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/30/coolsc.ebooks/

[CNet]

Rebooted Any Good Books Lately?

rebooted hampered

[NY Times] Free registration required to view. Free registration required.

From P-Books to E-Books

" Free registration required. [USA Today]

" [E-Commerce Times]

midgley techsource

A New Chapter for E -Books

[The Chronicle of Higher Education]

News an analysis of a pilot program to sell electronic books in stores.A survey of students in two college courses grades e-book devices and their function in higher education.Explains the technology from two vendors to be used to read e-books.News on the slowly developing e-book hardware devices market.Visitors to BookExpo America 1999 circle around the e-book booths, but few are buying - yet.

EBooks Are Not Just For Reading

Charts the development of portable electronic book hardware.

www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10CASS.html

www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/technology/ebusiness /28EBOO.html

[NY Times] Free registration required to view.

news.com.com/2100-1040-232672.html

com registration to read]

Free registration required.A detailed analysis of the electronic book business.

The Bearable Lightness of E-Books

[Salon]

illuminates internetnews

MightyWords is eliminating many of its authors from its e-publishing program . Free registration required. [PC World]

Free registration required.

E-Books: The Next Killer App

E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries

News on a Princeton University Press project with adaptive e-books .

How to Crack Open an E-Book

Digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. [CNN]

www.libraryjournal .com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleId=CA156519

www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000604mag -ebook.html

What if E-Books Cost Less?

Will We Ever Want E-Books?

explode wired

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the E-Book

A University that Reveres Tradition Experiments with E-Books

AOL Retreats From Big Push for E-Books

News of Reciprocal`s introduction of another e-book data format. Free registration required.

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43077,00.html

The two companies will take a major step into the digital content future with the creation of an e-Book superstore using Microsoft reader software.

www.nytimes .com/2002/06/17/technology/17LIBR.html

E-Book Conference Illuminates Issues

[American Library Association]

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40984,00.html

[Wired]

www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=10481

[Association of American Publishers]

In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries

" [Washington Post]

Publishers Embrace E-Books at Confab

Harcourt College Publishers inks a deal with e-book company goReader to offer electronic college textbooks.An introduction to the capabilities of e-book readers . [Forbes]

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Free registration required.A look at the current efforts of e-book publishers, with a focus on children`s books.

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40086,00.html

Free registration required to view . [CNN]

[Free registration required to view]

www.forbes.com/2000/08/09/mu1.html

Early promotional titles sell well.

www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43401,00.html

Is Digital Publishing Taking Off?

Measuring the Use and Value of Electronic Journals and Books

www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article1.html

Mystery of E-Books: Who Reads Them?

[NY Times] Free registration required to view.

www.nytimes.com/2001 /01/04/technology/04BOOK.html

A thorough look at the competing economic, technological, and social factors influencing the development of e-books.

The Emerging Role of E-Books

The King of E-Books

internetnews sluggish

2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books

publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA169008

Downloading Literature - E-books change the face of reading

[PC World]

E-books Draw Crowds, No Converts

news.com.com/2009-1023-257030.html

[CNet]

[CNN]

Review of companies, market issues and outlook for the e-book industry.

Exit Gutenberg?

www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digitalreader/dr2000-11-16.htm

[ZDNet AnchorDesk]

[UCSB Library]

www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A24452-2000Sep26

Report on the conference "Electronic Book 2000: Changing the Fundamentals of Reading.

www.nytimes .com/2001/02/28/technology/28BOOK.html

Report on advertisements within e-books.

/www.techsource.ala.org /todaystech/01/07/19/1359257_F.shtml

Who Can Dig Digital Books?

Commentary on why consumers don`t want or need e-books.

You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover

reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-6033_16-4205313.html

internetnews immature

www .wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49297,00.html

Review of industry disappointments and prospects.

www.ala .org/ala/alonline/inetlibrarian/2000columns/may2000funny.htm

A overview of e-book business issues such as copyright protection.Self-published books with electronic artistry.

E-Books Take Off

archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/03/06/ebook.perks.idg/

Electronic Books for All

www.infotoday.com/online/jul02/hawkins .htm

Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

[NY Times] Free registration required to view.

Forbes.com: Simon & Schuster Leads The E-Book Charge

Electronic books have been slow to catch on among consumers , but big Internet companies are betting that the time for e-books has come.

Publisher`s Web Books Spur Hardcover Sales

www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/technology/19BAEN.html

publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index .asp?layout=articleArchive&articleId=CA83537

Report of publishing companies` involvement with e-books . [NY Times]

Copies of Stephen King`s novella "Riding the Bullet" may have been decrypted by hackers.

rebooted midgley

A Bad Ending for E-Authors

www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Jan00/B&NcesPR.asp

Battle Over Access to Online Books

The use of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in e-books. [NY Times] Free registration required to view.

news.com.com/2100-1023-257077.html

Deadbeats Prompt King To Yank Internet Book

www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/1999columns1/november1999.htm

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]

Report on increased sales of electronic books.

www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue29/wilson/

www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/hillesund/index.html

Reviews of some early ebook software products.

Move Over, Gutenberg. Please.

[Publishers Weekly]

Announcement of the report "Electronic Publishing Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004: Digital Books and Print on Demand.

Stephen King`s Net Horror Story

Struggles Over E-Books Abound

[The Chronicle of Higher Education]

A renowned digital librarian examines the e-book industry, with references.

The Good E-Book

electrifying hampered

www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/arts/05ARTS.html

News and implications analysis of the lawsuit between Random House and RosettaBooks. [Library Journal]

Short report on the book publishing industry.

www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,19870,00.html

Argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society.

reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-6033_16-4205024.html

www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article .php/4_738451

Meeting the rising demand for online access to books.

Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds

Simon Midgley wonders whether hard-up students will need to buy textbooks in a few years` time. [ZDNet AnchorDesk]

explode anchordesk

chronicle.com/free/2001/05/2001051101t.htm

www.nytimes.com/2001 /12/05/technology/05BOOK.html

[NY Times] Free registration required to view. [Wired]

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]

[CNet]

www.forbes.com/forbes /2001/0528/190.html

www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/09book.html

The End of Books?

Discusses the success of Stephen King`s first foray into e-books and what it may mean for the future.

The Story Of E-Books

internetnews sluggish

A "Revolution" Waiting to Happen?

www.businessweek.com/1998/44/b3602055.htm

[E-Commerce News]

[Wired]

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,19469,00.html

Cases of the appeal of e-books.Adding handwritten notes to the Rocket eBook.

Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated

Getting a Read on E-Books

www.usatoday.com/tech/2002/05/08/ebooks.htm

Free registration required.Report on a study at Ball State University.

The Future of the Book

[ALA TechSource]