As a result, the e-book version is free for the next month.

But Barnes & Noble survived to challenge Amazon in the e-book market.

A system called OverDrive already facilitates e-book lending at many public libraries.

They are now looking at implementing a programme based on this e-book.

Kobo, the independent e-reader company that could, has updated its popular e-book.

The purpose of calibre is to simplify management of your e-book collection.

Try the author, title, series, or anything else from the e-book's metadata.

In July, it won a trial over e-book price-fixing against Apple Inc.

And not an e-book reader, either, but an actual ink-on-dead-trees, words-on-paper book.

Now picture doing that on your Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader.

Amazon offered an updated version of the Kindle e-book reader in February.

So people can keep The Iliad and The Odyssey on an e-book.

When someone dies suddenly, all her thoughts are about her unfinished e-book.

The proposed used marketplace would work similarly to Amazon's Kindle e-book lending process.

Fortunately, most e-book readers for sale today meet that basic criteria.

The book is due to be published later this year as an e-book.