e-books

Amazon reselling public-domain e-books created for Project Gutenberg

by Michael Becker
November 30, 2010November 30, 2010

At least one contributor to the free, public-domain e-books site Project Gutenberg is complaining that Amazon is taking user-uploaded texts, stripping out the Gutenberg license information and reselling the e-books.

Google will start selling e-books this summer

by Michael Becker
May 4, 2010May 19, 2010

Google has said it will start selling digital books this summer, putting itself in competition with Amazon and Apple for a share of the e-book market.