You know how Apple sometimes freaks out about protecting intellectual property, even disabling certain features to discourage piracy and push users to their own digital content stores? A good example ...

The decision to use Digital Rights Management (DRM), a copyright protection mechanism, is set by the authors when they ...

If you are an avid reader, you may have come across the term eBook at least a few dozen times over the past decade or so. While at the time, you may have been skeptical about replacing paperbacks ...

Amazon is finally supporting ePub files — the de facto open ebook standard — on Kindles, according to help documentation spotted by Good E-Reader. It’s been a long time coming, but starting later this ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...

Thankfully for Kindle fans, Amazon is rolling back some of those changes, and will be bringing back the ability to download e ...

Amazon has held firm over the past 15 years by keeping the widely accepted (some would even say ‘default’) digital book format, ‘.ePub’, off its digital reading devices, but a truce has finally been ...

Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index. EPUB is an XML-based eBook ...