The controversy surrounding the Publishers Association's guidelines on e-book lending, which recommend that users go to a library to borrow a digital title, shows no signs of abating with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals the latest library body to accuse it of being "restrictive" for library users....

Waterstone's plans to stock a new e-book device similar to the Amazon Kindle within the next few months. M.d. Dominic Myers said Waterstone's was training all staff in the functions and differences of various e-book reading devices.

"We have found that if you explain to someone how an e-book reader works they are four times...

London independent Foyles has begun selling the paperback sized Cybook Opus e-book reader. The device went on sale in stores yesterday [Wednesday] and is priced £199.

More than 1,000 e-books can be stored on the 1GB memory. Owners can read titles in either portrait or landscape view. The device weighs just over five ounces.

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Amazon.com is to guarantee publication-day delivery for the hardback edition of Dan Brown’s long-awaited The Lost Symbol in the US so book buyers will receive it on the same day as those who have pre-ordered the Kindle digital edition.

Amazon.com is selling the hardcover at $16.17, a 46% discount on the publisher's...