Welcome to Read an E-Book Week!

Read an E-Book Week is over for 2009 but our website is still packed with information. Please remember the publishers and authors who participated with free, or greatly reduced books, and patronize them throughout the year.

------- E-books and electronic reading have gone mainstream.

Of course, e-books can be read on a computer or laptop. That's what the first e-books were created for. But now e-books are more commonly read on e-book reading devices like the new Sony Reader, the iRex Iliad and a host of other dedicated devices.

The list of e-book readers is growing, and new technologies—thanks to E Ink— make these devices more durable and easier to read in all lighting situations.
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In Warren Adler's Words

Mr. Adler has generously donated the following article in support of Read an E-Book Week.

"The recent front page story in the New York Times confirming that the e-book concept has finally caught on and is surging, has prompted many of my friends, colleagues and readers to e-mail me expressing kudos and congratulations for my so-called perceptive insight, expressed a dozen years ago, that electronic books will one day dominate the publishing world.
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Website Production courtesy SteveJordanBooks.com

David Lieberman, veteran display journalist and analyst, has contributed an article on The Future of E-Books.

"The future of e-books will see a continuing proliferation of platforms with a built-in e-reader function. E-reader software has already spread to cellphones, PDAs, portable gaming systems and elsewhere, in addition to residing in dedicated e-reader devices and personal computers.
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calibre - What Can It Do For E-Books?
calibre is a comprehensive and free e-book management program developed by users of e-books, for users of e-books. One of the major hurdles to widespread e-book adoption today is the large number of mutually incompatible e-book formats and reading devices.
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The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, has done an interesting study of e-books entitled: Innovation and the Future of e-Books, by John W. Warren. According to Mr. Warren, the future of e-books may include hypertext novels.
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myebook is out to revolutionise the way we create, publish and share e-book content online.
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