Read an E-Book Week is March 7-13 this year, and Rita's site is freshly cleaned and polished for 2010 (with a bit of my assistance).   I urge all TeleRead members to check the site out, to see a bit of the face Rita is putting out to the public.  The REBW site is a great one for those who are new to the e-book world, and are looking for basic but comprehensive information on e-books, the players involved, the benefits, and e-books' future. REBW is still getting support from the likes of E Ink and Sony, and new e-book producers and...

The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization that provides analysis and solutions for the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world, has done an interesting study of e-books entitled: Innovation and the Future of e-Books. The author of the study was John W. Warren. According to Mr. Warren, the future of e-books may include enhanced e-books. This concept could prove interesting to authors interested in experimenting with hypertext novels. A hypertext novel would include links in the text that take a reader to various locations either within, or without, the novel itself. In 2002 when my...

Rita Toews is founder of Read an E-Book Week. Meanwhile I hope that the White House will wise up and heed suggestions to recognize the week officially. If Obama wants to promote both literacy and tech, what better way to do this? - D.R. Read an E-Book Week is over for 2009, and it was a roaring success! People are obviously interested in all aspects of e-books and electronic reading material. Web traffic came from the four corners of the globe, including: Korea, England, Russia, U.S.A., France, Spain, Argentina, Iceland, Mexico, Portugal, Egypt, China, India, Turkey and the...

Editor's Note: Here is the first article by a new TeleRead contributor, author Steve Jordan. You can find his bio here. I met Steve at the TOC Conference and after I heard his story, over lunch, I badgered him into writing it up for us. Hopefully it will be the first contribution of many to come: I know, I know, the title sounds like a 1965-era deodorant commercial. But in point of fact, Rita Toews, the founder of Read an E-Book Week, has done a great service to everyone who hopes to see the market for e-books grow...

The release of the Amazon Kindle 2 has caused a bit of consternation with respect to the text to speech function. The Authors Guild immediately expressed dissatisfaction with the feature, claiming TTS is part of an author's audio rights. They demanded that Amazon disable the feature. Amazon claims TTS is part of the author's e-book rights and refuses. Marilyn Byerly, writer and book doctor for established authors and a NY Times bestseller states in her Adventures in Writing blog: "The major legal problem with TTS is that it has never been clearly defined through a lawsuit or some other legal means....

Mebook, www.myebook.com provider of a free browser-based e-book creation software, is hosting an e-book contest in recognition of Read an E-Book Week. www.ebookweek.com From now until March 14th you are invited to create an e-book, or a book trailer to publicize your book, on the powerful myebook publishing platform. Once you've created your book, add it to the 'E-book Week' community on the site. myebook.com will judge the entries based on best use of the full capabilities of the software tools. The winner's entry will be added to the carousel of books on the front page of the website for...