Brown Bear and Curious George and comics such as Batman and Superman are just a few of the new titles now available for the Kindle app and Cloud Reader.

The trick here will be getting publishers on board. It will be a challenge that will require Steve Jobs-like gusto.

It’s an interesting move. Here we have Amazon reportedly building a tablet that will run Android. Meanwhile Google is making a big move into the e-Reader space, which will potentially cut into Amazon’s sales. Can you say co-opetition?

Cambridge, Mass., tops the list with the most books, magazines and newspapers purchased per capita of any city in the United States

Ironically, however, it shows how much as a society we’ve become accustomed to the ideas of specific page numbers. In the world of the Internet, blog streams and social networking sites, it’s pretty much an antiquated concept.

Obtaining a copy which contained a hand-crafted, original signature by the author himself would make it special in a world of the mass-production printing press.

My Kindle was not there. “Think Loni!” I tell myself. Somewhere, in the recesses of my brain, an idea emerged.

Over the last three months the iPad has doubled its market share to 32% while Kindle has fallen 15% to 47%.

While I was attending a Medicaid conference on the future of health care in DC, here in San Francisco, the debate on the the ban of toys with restaurant kids’ meals was heating up this past week (translation: The ban of McDonald’s happy meals). Because of this, I felt somewhat sheepish to find myself in [...]

Maybe it’s the effects of nostalgia setting in…looking at paperbacks of the past through red wine-colored spectacles.