Random House US is to make thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, according to the Straits Times.

Random House c.e.o. Markus Dohle said in a statement that "more people everyday are enjoying reading in the electronic format and Random House wants to extend...

Palgrave Macmillan is to launch its own e-book platform for libraries in January. Palgrave Connect will offer access to 4,000 e-books, organised by discipline and year of publication, and the list will be updated quarterly.

The platform has been developed in association with sister company Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and is powered by...

Waterstone's has revealed its first e-books bestseller chart with a preponderance of crime and mystery titles. In the week ending 20th September P D James' The Private Patient, published by Faber, was number one, ahead of The Skeleton Man by Jim Kelly (ePenguin). The retailer did not reveal the number of e-editions...

After the Kindle, Iliad and Sony Readers comes the electronic newspaper, the New York Times reports.

Technology company Plastic Logic announced the device yesterday at an emerging devices show at San Diego. The device's screen is twice the size of conventional e-book readers but it is designed to be continually updated via a wireless...