In a survey of 2812 US consumers, ChangeWave research has discovered that the “iPad’s share of the overall market has doubled” since ChangeWave’s last survey “of e-Reader owners”, and while Amazon’s Kindle is still in the lead, the iPad is very quickly iCatching up!

After months of delay, Apple has finally secured deals with “major and independent publishers” to bring thousands of existing titles and new books arriving on a regular basis to Australian iDevice users who have easy and legal access to more than just the out-of-copyright classics. Read on!

Amazon has reportedly acquired a touchscreen developer whose technology is cheaper and in some ways better than that used in the iPad. Is this the harbinger of a future multitouch Kindle?

In a couple of blog posts, people at Adobe have launched a sort of pre-emptive strike against the iPad and its iBook Store, criticizing Apple for not supporting Flash and claiming that its iBooks will only work on the iPad.

Tech analyst company Ovum has weighed in the future of Apples new tech gamble, the iPad.  The focus of the companies analysis is on the iPad’s abilities as an e-reader and what that might mean for the industry.

Who exactly is Apple thinking will be attracted to the new iPad device?  Some believe the device will revolutionise portable computing, others are less impressed.

Amazon has announced a new royalty structure for authors using the company's Kindle Digital Text Platform to publish their books. The new rate matches the terms Apple is reportedly ready to offer book publishers.

The larger version of Amazon's Kindle e-reader is now available for order from more than a hundred countries around the world. And a price and on-sale date has been announced for the dual-screen competitor Alex.

Adelaide-based eBook device designer, Mike Ottoy of Ubiq Technologies, claims 2010 will see accelerated growth in the worldwide eBook market, with the release of a new wave of flexible and affordable devices and multi-purpose technologies boosting consumer sales.

Spring Design announced an agreement with Google that will make the more than one million Google Books accesible via the dual-screen Alex e-reader.