Users are downloading more e-books, music, TV shows and movies than ever: Digital content and subscriptions were the fastest-growing retail e-commerce category in 2011, according to a new ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) report.

It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse—and hey, it could still happen. But a new decision from the American Booksellers Association’s IndieCommerce—which comes as bookstore chains Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Indigo are making similar decisions—is not so…

The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings this week suggest a possible end game.

Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-print titles each year, tells the New York Times and Seattle Times that based on the reaction she’s received it’s a “hard question” whether she’d do it again.

Does three make a trend? In recent months, both former Gawker editor Emily Gould and GigaOm’s Michael Wolf launched their own e-book ventures. Now Lifehacker editor Jason Chen has left Gawker Media to launch an e-bookstore of his own, StoryBundle.

Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, the Lagardere group reported, as it warned it would write off almost €1 ($1.3/£0.83) billion against other group activities.

A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could be expanded to other markets.

The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have their own Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) sites.

Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles in their stores. But what does this boycott really mean?

When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works created in the program must be sold exclusively through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The company has now tweaked the EULA to make it a bit more clear.

Books-A-Million—the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—announced today that, like B&N, it will not carry Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles in its stores.

Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries—and it said yesterday it will continue to do so, though it is raising prices.

The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still high—up 65.9 percent over November 2010. Slower growth could be attributed to a pre-holiday sales lull, as consumers waited for new devices like the Kindle Fire to come on the…

Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader in the next 12 months—up from 40 percent in 2009. Why?

About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement saying it will not carry titles published by Amazon—including the Amazon titles that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is selling in print—in its “store showrooms.”

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but missing analyst estimates. Net income slid to $177 million on earnings of $0.38 per share, down 58 percent from this time last year, and shares were down…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q410	Net Inc. vs Q410
AMZN	Release		34.6%	57.5%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying an e-reader.

What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them are available legally as e-books. A new site aims to make these and other e-books available to the public (and in libraries), as DRM-free…

Digital publisher and multimedia company Open Road is partnering with investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica on multiple e-books.