While there are plenty of iPhone 5 rumours to chew on, The Wall Street Journal – frequently pegged as a conduit for Apple controlled leaks – has moved on to the iPhone 6 already. Nestled near the end of a story on iPhone 5 speculation, it says Apple has a major revamp in store for the 2012 model.

One of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals is to be made available on the internet for the first time.

Did Amazon magically change the battery life of the Kindle? Not really. It’s all about the assumptions included in calculating battery life for e-readers and making claims on them.

If you were shopping for a new copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly — a classic work on developmental biology — on Amazon recently, you might've gotten quite a shock. The book was priced at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping)! What happened?

Want to check out e-books from the library and read them on your Kindle? That will be possible later this year as Amazon announced Wednesday that it would join a library loan program for electronic books.

A best-selling author has turned down a $500,000 contract because he thinks he can make more money flogging the book online himself. In a blogpost here, thriller writer Barry Eisler, who has been a NY Times Best Selling author, said the decision came down to money.

Android phone owners can now buy and download books from the Android Market webstore. The Books portal appeared today on the new Motorola Xoom's Market app and has hence become available for those who didn't rush out to buy a new Honeycomb 3.0-loaded tab.

Google says it will launch Google Editions, its anticipated universal format e-book store, by the end of 2010.

Users of ebook readers could be in for a shock in future if they try to remotely download free books from their library. The Publishers Association has set out guidelines placing restrictions on ebook lending that puts this service under threat.

Amazon has announced that it will allow Kindle users to lend books to each other, providing publishers agree. Lending will be allowed under strict conditions and only for a fortnight.

The Iraq war. And a London-based publisher called James Bridle has printed every single one of them in hardback, with the aim of showing how the documentation of the war has changed over time.

Sony has officially unveiled three new e-readers, the Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350, Reader Touch Edition PRS-650, and an updated Reader Daily Edition. They all feature next-generation touch-screen E-ink technology.

It's not as attractive as the iPad, but Amazon's formerly derided e-reader is cheap and, most important, efficient.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a method to improve the screen resolution and switching speed of e-readers.

Amazon has launched a UK version of its Kindle store today which has the majority of British bestsellers on sale in ebook form.

Amazon.com has introduced a new generation of Kindle. The all-new Kindle has a new electronic-ink screen in a 21% smaller and 15% lighter design, with 50% better contrast, 20% faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage, built-in Wi-Fi, with free 3G wireless, and is available for $189.

The speed race, at least. Books are faster and 'more relaxing' to read, but iPads and Kindles are 'more satisfying', finds new study.

Now in a bit of a rough spot as it fends off attackers ranging from the 2-million-units-sold Apple iPad to the Barnes & Noble Nook, Amazon is said to be preparing another update to its Kindle e-book reader hardware for release in August.

Sales of ebooks will overtake print books within the next five years, Sony has predicted.

Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world.