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In January and February, she e-published a trilogy of young-adult novels she’d written years earlier. She called the first one “Seattle Girl” and chose a new author name, Lucy Kevin, to distinguish it from the sexually explicit Andre books. Here’s what her first quarter looked like: 56,008 books sold; income, $116,264.

Random House, a unit of Bertelsmann, is buying Smashing Ideas, a digital firm that creates book apps.

One month after Amazon announced that its third-generation Kindle "eclipsed 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' as the bestselling product in Amazon’s history," CEO Jeff Bezos announces: "Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com."

The Google eBookstore may be a boon to independent bookstores that have signed on to sell e-books on their Web sites through Google.

Google says it will introduce Google Editions, its long-awaited foray into electronic books, by the end of the year.

HTC may launch an online app store that will sell both applications and e-Books according to a recent rumor.

Does the world have room for another App Store? We'll find out soon. Reportedly, Amazon is planning to launch their very own app store for Android-based devices. Amazon already sells eBook content through the Kindle, and while a few games have also emerged for Kindle, having a dedicated app store that would be available...

Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities. Emma Teitgen, 12, thought the chemistry book her teacher recommended would make perfect bedside reading.

Once upon a time -- in the 1990s -- e-books for children came on CD-ROMs, and for digital wizardry, offered only mouse clicks and hidden pop-up-like animations. Not anymore. Touch screens and app stores have given new tricks to old books, and the number of new titles is blossoming.

Amazon.com has unveiled a program that will give authors and publishers a larger share of revenue from each Kindle e-book they sell beginning on June 30, 2010. The 70-percent royalty option offers 70 percent of list price ...