If you were hoping to purchase the nook ereader from Barnes & Noble for the holiday gift giving season, hopefully you did it before now.

Amazon has officially launched a “Kindle for PCs” app that will allow you more opportunities for reading your recently purchased e-books.

A surge in book-related releases for the iPhone has some people wondering if the device can displace the Kindle as a lower-cost e-reader. Or the question could be posed, “If you build it, will they read?”

Amazon has launched a Web payments scheme that allows shoppers to use a memorable phrase and a PIN code in place of a user name and password. It seems utterly pointless, particularly given the lack of participating sites.

The popular Roku brand of streaming devices has only had one unit up until now, but all of that changes today with the announcement of two new models.

It seems like a distant memory now when people predicted Amazon would never turn a profit, but yet here the company sits with not only record profits but record revenue and stock prices.

Either Amazon felt a sudden surge of generosity, or else the etailer is scared out of its wits by the Barnes & Noble nook e-reader.

In a heavyweight battle of brick and mortar superstores and internet super-sites, Amazon and Wal-Mart are squaring off to see who is the biggest, baddest bookseller in the land.

The Barnes & Noble e-bookstore has been available for a number of portable devices for some time. Now, it is believed that the bookstore chain will soon unveil a hardware competitor to the Kindle.

Many of us who are not residents in the U.S. have been enviously looking on at the Amazon Kindle and annoyed that we haven’t been given the opportunity to buy one of the eBook readers. But that all changed a few days ago with the introduction of an international Kindle for all. Unfortunately, the joy was short-lived as it looks though international buyers are being royally shafted when it comes to pricing.

At long last international customers of Amazon are going to be able to pick up a Kindle of their own.

When Amazon remotely deleted copies of 1984 from its Kindle readers, it may have expected to take a hit in its public image. But it surely won’t have expected to take a $150,000 dent in its wallet.

Amazon partnered with Princeton to provide 50 free Kindle DX e-readers to students at the University. However some students found the Kindle so difficult to use that they would rather go back to lugging around textbooks.

As the Kindle becomes more popular, it would seem to be a natural target for third party developers, much like the iPhone, to extend it from just a portable re-book reader into a multi-purpose device.

Amazon has decided to launch a line of consumer electronics accessories that will go perfectly with all of the big ticket electronics the company already sells.

Dan Brown’s new novel, The Lost Symbol, was released on Sept. 15 after five years in the making. And it’s already selling well, as most people expected it to. However, something few people expected was to see the Kindle edition of The Lost Symbol sell in greater numbers than the hardback edition on Amazon. Which is exactly what appears to happening at the moment.

E-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader are gaining in popularity. This is a business that’s right at the start of its life and likely to grow massively. But the high prices for these devices mean e-book readers are currently not appealing to mainstream consumers. Would a $50 to $100 price range make them indispensable?