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Kindle rival the Nook stumbles, but what is the next chapter for e-readers?

12 Jul 2013: Barnes & Noble boss William Lynch has resigned and Nook sales falter, but does Amazon's Kindle have a long-term future?

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Why the subscription dream of a ‘Netflix for books’ still has its limits

20 Oct 2014: Book streaming services such as Oyster and Kindle Unlimited are still struggling to get enough bestsellers on to our virtual shelves, writes James Bridle
Why William S Burroughs would have loved XSS

5 Oct 2014: The beat generation author was way ahead of the virus game as it’s revealed that cross-site scripting, or XSS, makes Kindles vulnerable to hackers, writes James Bridle
Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited - a Netflix-for-books - in the UK

24 Sep 2014: Harry Potter, Hunger Games, audiobooks and more bundled in to £7.99-a-month subscription, following US debut in July. By Stuart Dredge
Amazon reveals new Kindles and Fire tablet that will compete with iPad Air

18 Sep 2014:
Retailer also reveals a child-friendly version of its Fire HD tablet, which runs a simplified, icon-based mobile operating system
Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds

19 Aug 2014:
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional books
Amazon's Russell Grandinetti: Kindle champ takes on the books trade

17 Aug 2014: Profile: Why are some of the world's most widely read authors now at daggers drawn with Amazon? The answer lies in Jeff Bezos's chief lieutenant, now the most powerful man in publishing
Amazon planning credit card reader to compete with PayPal – report

28 Jul 2014: Leaked documents indicate e-commerce giant expanding payments arm with mobile payments
A single publisher going it alone won't counter the might of Amazon

27 Jul 2014: Competition between publishing houses here and in the US means they stand little chance of ending Amazon's dominance, writes James Bridle
E-readers vs books: the debate

23 Jul 2014:
Are you going to be piling books into your suitcase this summer or will you opt for the tech version? Claire Kearns argues that even in this era of instant downloads and constant connectivity, there's plenty of pleasure still to be found in a good, solid book
Got a novella in the bottom drawer? It could be a Kindle single…

20 Jul 2014:
Anna Baddeley: The elasticity of digital publishing can give new life to the shorter form, as DJ Taylor discovered
Kindle Unlimited: it's the end of losing yourself in a good book

20 Jul 2014:
Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers – and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading, writes John Naughton
Amazon leak reveals plan to launch Kindle book subscription service

17 Jul 2014: The ‘Netflix for books’ service will provide over 600,000 books and audio books for Kindle subscribers. By Samuel Gibbs
Which books have you failed to finish?

8 Jul 2014: The Hawking index reckons it can measure how far people get into a book before giving up. We want to know what caused you to stop reading
Can the Hawking Index tell us when people give up on books?

7 Jul 2014:
By counting which pages readers highlight on their Kindles, a new scale attempts to measure how far people persist with certain well-known books. Bad news for Capital – and Fifty Shades of Grey
Lucy Mangan: I've a shameful confession to make – I've joined the cult of the Kindle

28 Jun 2014: I bought my Kindle for work, honest, but there's been mission creep. I'm so not proud of myself