e-books
Egypt launches Kitab app with 2000 books to promote digital culture
Culture
January 25, 2025
Egypt launches Kitab app with 2000 books to promote digital culture
Ahmed Fouad Henna, Minister of Culture, and Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, launched the free Kitab (Book)…
Britons shun e-books due to ‘screen fatigue’
Art news
April 29, 2017
Britons shun e-books due to ‘screen fatigue’
British sales of e-books are waning, trade figures revealed, suggesting readers were suffering from "screen fatigue". Britain's publishing industry had a…
Movie-style soundtracks for immersive e-reading
Art news
January 5, 2016
Movie-style soundtracks for immersive e-reading
New Zealand-based startup Booktrack is hoping to change the way people read e-books by incorporating a synchronized soundtrack to accompany…
Americans more likely to ban books than any other media
Art news
July 9, 2015
Americans more likely to ban books than any other media
A new Harris Poll shows that since 2011, the percentage of American adults who feel there are books on sale…
EU launches antitrust investigation into Amazon over e-books
Art news
June 11, 2015
EU launches antitrust investigation into Amazon over e-books
The European Union's executive branch has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books, which…
Digital media brings erotic books out of the closet
Books
May 21, 2012
Digital media brings erotic books out of the closet
It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more.…