I own an iPod Touch and benefit from iPhone e-book software, but I’m still ticked to see an eWeek headline reading Android possibly stealing attention from iPhone. Great. People are more aware than ever of Android, which means Apple can’t be its normal controlling self as easily when it comes to e-book apps and others. Already, promising e-book apps exist in Android like Aldiko and WordPlayer. Summarizing a ComScore survey, eWeek reports: “Users were asked which phone they planned to buy in the next three months, 7 percent said the T-Mobile G1 or T-Mobile MyTouch—the only two Android-running devices available at...

A Barnes & Noble employee has said on-camera that his company will sell a color-screened machine from Plastic Logic in spring 2010. E Ink or LCD or another technology? That wasn’t clear to me. Color E Ink on an actual consumer machine would be a breakthrough. Screen is to be paperback-sized. The new B&N device---apparently not the one said to be coming next month---is to offer “new and cool" features missing from the Kindle. The B&N man, Daniel Joresson, gave no price. But he did say the machine would run eReader. My...

Mark Coker, Smashwords’ CEO, has blogged the details. Cool wrinkle: Mark’s published a bar code for Android cellphone owners to point their cameras at---to facilitate downloading of the Aldiko app. Format in use is ePub---nonDRMed. Hooray! Get it, B&N, Borders and Amazon? A new e-book ecosystem---not just involving Aldiko---is aborning on the Net without “protection” to pollute it. I just hope Aldiko will resist any buyout offers from Amazon. (Via PW.) Disclosure: Both Mark and Tiffany Wong, an Aldiko co-founder, blog at times for TeleRead---which we see as an op-ed for e-book business figures among others....

Welcome to Tiffany Wong, our latest contributor, a co-founder of Aldiko Limited, developer of an Android e-reader!  Her bio is at the end. Also see E-books in China: Develop and Use, by Liu Zheng and Sun Tan---a PDF to which Gary Price kindly pointed us. On relevant trade matters, check out a helpful WTO ruling and news that China may appeal it. Many people think: Digital arena + Chinese market = great opportunity and growth. China’s digital publishing industry, in fact, has grown steadily. According to the statistics released last month for the Third...

E-books in China is the topic of a forthcoming TeleRead post from our latest contributor, Tiffany Wong---cofounder of Aldiko, the developer of an e-reader app for Android smart phones. Is China the next big market for digital publishers? Quick preview: There were 79 million readers of digital books in 2008, a 34% growth compared to 2007. An interesting trend is how e-books appeal in particular to young people. Readers below 24 accounted for almost 50% of the group. Unlike reading printed books, reading e-books is seen by the younger generation as a modern and fashionable activity....