Will the the market for E Ink-style tech double next year? So thinks Scott Liu, chair of Prime View International---the company supplying E Ink screens for the Kindle, Sony Reader and other machines. In fact, his company says the market could grow 10 times in three years.  Details from Digitimes (via MobileRead). Related: Some other TeleBlog posts on E Ink and demand for it....

The Associated Press wisely backed off from a major legal fight with bloggers over fair use. But the wire service remains on the S list of many Net folks because of a still-Draconian approach. By contrast, the New York Times is itself in the aggregation business. The Times routinely pick up headlines from TeleRead and zillions of other Web sites via Blogrunner. Some are even from other big news organizations such as Reuters and the BBC. If AP's smart, it won't just follow the Times' example. It will also leverage its relationships with thousands of newspapers to present content in new ways....

I've spent the last couple of days using my iPhone 3G as an ebook reader---trying out all the different software out there. So far the most stable software seems to be Fictionwise's eReader. The ability to download books directly from Fictionwise, without going the "server" route, is a huge plus over the other products. A big problem, however, may consign the iPhone to just occasional reading use - battery power. There seems to be no question that my 3G has a lower battery life then my original iPhone. That may not be too bad, but when used in low...

Correction: The online version of the New Yorkk Times was not as clear as it could have been, thanks to rather confusing layout.  Prof. Boskin correctly says the dog quote actually came from then-Sen. Nancy Kassebaum---with whom I'll check. - D.R., Oct. 23, 2008 (headline changed). New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd still hasn't explained how she picked up an iffy quote on March 10, 1989: "If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog." I queried her twice via a Times e-mail form and find her silence rather disappointing. Ah! But there's a happy twist suggesting that, as...

I was anxious to try out this new Cuil search engine everyone's buzzing about.  The management team is loaded with former Google-ites, and they've promised to deliver "the world's biggest search engine," meaning all those sites Google ignores will now be included in Cuil search results.  Further, content and relevance are king, which should provide a much more satisfying search experience. To be honest, I don't have any beefs with Google.  I use it throughout the day and I generally find what I'm looking for in the top half of the first page of results.  Then again, I...

E-book stores are starting to promote their thousands of existing PDF titles as viewable on the Sony Reader PRS-505. Here's an example, a press release from eBooks.com. The difference: The Reader can now read DRMed PDF, and the reflowable format of Adobe Digital Editions makes it easier to enjoy PDF books in your favorite font size. Earlier the 505 could read nonDRMed PDF. So could and can the PRS-500, which, however, you can't upgrade to handle DRM or reflow PDFs. (Via MR.)...

Sad news. NAEB's store is closing, at least for now. Here's a note---in the Baen's Bar forum---from Derek Benner, one of the leaders of the buyers club for Cybook shoppers: "Nothing like negotiations is going on. We're closed. (I guess we couldn't keep it quiet much longer.) The last units of this shipment have shipped and we're going out of business. We didn't get near the price break we would have needed to stay in business. I would like to stay open and order Jinke V3 or Netronix EB-600 units, but the consensus is 'no'. Of course, if...

Coming in days, as summed up by jkOntheRun: download ereader PDB from any website from within the app. This works for any site that actually has links to PDB files, such as manybooks.net option to lock screen orientation option to reverse video option to tap instead of swipe for page turn option to turn off page animation sort by author or title or download date in bookshelf a few bug fixes and...

"A low-cost laptop being developed by the Indian government in tandem with two leading Indian education and research institutions will cost US$100 when available, and not $10 as was earlier stated by the government." - PC World. Details: An updated news release is here, and, no, it isn't exactly teeming with e-book references. Will India repeat the mistakes of One Laptop Per Child and not play up books as much as it should? I'd hope not. The Indians show more interest in traditional pedagogy than OLPC has, and presumably that means books, not just Webcentric...

Stanza, BookShelf, Bookz and eReader, four promising iPhone e-book readers, have been updated. So have the New York Times reader and NetNewsWire and a gem of an app called Turner Internet Radio. Updates by update, here are a few highlights: As Paul Biba just noted, Stanza 1.1 has added such features as the auto opening of the last-opened book, when you start up again. BookShelf's 1.1.903 font-changing works, and I can read Mobipocket files that I couldn't before. Bookz 1.0.2 is more stable and should be handy...

For our iPhone/Touch users, the iPhone application has been updated. According to the Application Store the changes are: "Added the ability to edit the title and author of a book. Changed the behavior so that when Stanza is first launched, the last opened book is automatically opened. Fixed a bug where Stanza might crash when listing books that do not have an author set." To update any of your apps go to the App Store icon and then look at the bottom right and you will see an Update button....

Several people have e-mailed me about the use of a Kindle outside the U.S. I haven't made any overseas trips since I got mine, but obviously the wireless capability disappears once you leave America. Amazon covers this in one of its FAQs and asks customers outside the U.S. to be patient. There are, of course, workarounds to the situation. This post on the Nerdgirl site does an excellent job providing a step-by-step solution. It involves the use of an Amazon Gift Card although you still need to provide a valid credit card during the setup process. The trick...