Back in the early '90s TeleRead was making the wacky suggestion that schools should provide book-optimized computers for students, or at least those who couldn't afford them otherwise. Well, it's...

M.J. Rose this week notes the reduction in space for printed book reviews. She does see some hope, though--in the form of the reviews at Amazon.com and other places on...

Today's Washington Post carries some gloomy statistics about book sales, including one publishing executive's observation that "total sales of trade units declined 6.4 percent in 2001," with more trouble ahead....

TeleRead has always supported the concept of neighborhood libraries, especially those near schools. Well-stocked national digital libraries aren't going to happen overnight. Beyond that, neighorhood libraries help supply the glue...

Copyight laws may harm writers, artists and musicians at times by making it harder to share their works with other creators and the world at large. Ironically, under certain circumstances,...

The essay below is an update from Amos Bokros, a key participant in TeleRead, who tells how technology has helped him cope with a reading disability, and how TeleRead could...

Reuters this week carries an column headlined NetTrends: E-Book Story Fails to Unfold. It's an informative column, but fails to address the big issue: Why are publishers so often charging...

The newest version of this blogging software still has a way to go. The system apparently went back to an earlier, less polished version of this log. Luckily I distrusted...

The news establishment has not always cottoned well to blogging. Turf-intrusion alarms go off. As Glenn Harlan Reynolds has noted, bloggers in effect serve as freelance editors--hyper-eager not only to...

TeleRead is drawing some attention in Europe. We were mentioned May 5 in a Polish publication called Palm Page. It picked up our discussion of the benefits of e-books to...