Alaska Airline is Going Lean and Green With iPads Alaska Airline has just begun a program to issue iPads to all pilots. The iPads are going to replace the 50 or more pounds of paper that pilots used to carry on a flight. This effort, which should be finished by mid-June, is part of an [...]

US Dep’t. of Education Clarifies Rules on eReaders in the Classroom The US Dep’t. of Education has just released a new set of guidelines on how eReader and other new technologies should be made accessible to the disabled. The new rules were released not as actual regulations but as an open letter to college and [...]

BBC News Now Available on Android BBC News has released its Android app this week, finally closing the gap in its readership. Android users will be able to view the full news feed including the related videos for all stories. There are sharing tools so you can tweet/email/etc a story to your friends. You can [...]

Kobo To Give $10 Million To Reading Charity Kobo is having a busy week. The Canadian technology released a touch screen eReader and now is announcing plans to raise $10 million to help encourage eReading in schools. The company has created the $10 million fund “to inspire readers of all ages to read more and [...]

Amazon Names the Top 20 Most Read Cities in the US. Amazon has crunched the numbers and come up with a list of cities in the US where it sold the most books, newspapers, and magazines. This data is based on all sales in print and Kindle format since the beginning of the year, and [...]

More Than One Million Pages Link To Pirated eBooks: Attributor Digital book piracy is on the rise, according to technology firm Attributor. According to the firm’s Q211 report, digital piracy costing publishers an estimate $3 billion loss in revenue globally. The report found that more than one million web pages link to pirated book content. [...]

Five Questions To Ask Yourself When Shopping For An eReader 1. Where will you use it? This is a very important question to ask yourself because it will probably determine whether you want a backlit screen or not. If you are going to read more outside, then you want an eInk screen, if you are [...]

Quark And Perseus Release eBook Publishing Platform Formatting eBooks from a print book can be a pain. Quark and The Perseus Books Group have teamed up to help streamline the process. The two companies have created a new publishing software for book production that will let publishers create print and eBooks through the same platform. [...]

When Robots Rule the Library The recently opened Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will feel like it’s missing something the first time you walk in. Eventually it will hit you: where are the books? There are indeed books in that library; you just won’t ever be able to go get them yourself. The Mansueto Library [...]

How To Download eBooks From Your Local Library Buying an eReader doesn’t mean that you have to cut ties with your local library. In fact, the opposite is true. Overdrive has partnerships with more than 13,000 libraries, so the chances are good that your local library is on there. The way you download eBooks is [...]