On the whole, hackers aren’t overly fond of other people telling them what they can and cannot do with the hardware or software they’ve purchased. Unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more difficult ...

The open eBooks on iTunes U use the EPUB format, so they are readable on a wide variety of mobile devices. Rice University has joined Oxford University and The Open University in contributing free, ...

The Xteink X4 is a compact eBook reader that’s smaller than most smartphones. In fact, it’s so small that the company positions it as an eReader that sticks magnetically to the back of a phone, ...

At Balloon Juice, mistermix worries about the future of the ebook market: The existence of a digital music dystopia was thwarted by an open standard (MP3), the existence of high-quality digital copies ...

Do you remember how it felt when you first read what would eventually become your favorite book? For many students, that’s a feeling that’s hard to come by—books aren’t always cheap or easily ...

Last week, we broke news that Michelle Obama and the White House launched the Open eBooks app in an effort to provide $250 million worth of free digital texts to Title I, military base and special ...