>> Last Thursday, USA Today‘s weekly Best-Selling Books List became the first such compilation to include data from Kindle e-book sales. USA Today has published their bestseller list since October 1993. “With the addition of sales figures from Kindle, we have created a more robust list which reflects the new platforms consumers and readers are [...]

>> Author E. Lynn Harris, 54, passed away last week. He is heralded as a literary pioneer, writing openly about male homosexuality within the black community. John Blake at CNN writes: Harris wrote a series of novels that exposed readers to characters rarely depicted in literature: black, affluent gay men who were masculine, complex and, sometimes, [...]

Borders Group Inc. is launching a teen-oriented department within its brick-and-mortar stores. Some of the Borders Ink shops have already opened in Michigan and the majority of Borders superstores across the U.S. should have the special young adult sections by the end of August. “It’s a natural extension of what we’ve been doing,” said Kathryn [...]

Barnes & Noble (B&N) launched an online e-book store this week, calling it “the world’s largest eBookstore.” Earlier this year when the company purchased e-book retailer Fictionwise for $15.7 million, B&N said it was part of its overall digital strategy, and that they would launch an e-book store sometime this year. The site will offer [...]

Amazon found itself at the center of quite a bit of controversy and confusion this weekend. “KindleGate,” as it’s being called by some, came about after the company remotely deleted copies of e-books from customers’ Kindle e-readers on Friday. The irony behind the fact that the deleted e-books were written by George Orwell only helped [...]