[Alexander Turcic]

Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Books - News and Commentary

• Kindle - 6% and rising?
• Conspiracy not the cause of TeleRead's temporary outage
• Author dumps money from plane in publicity stunt
• LifeHack Beginner's Guide to E-Books
• Stanza e-book reader for Mac released
• Adobe Acrobat goes online, Reader gets a boost
• NYT: Electronic Device Stirs Unease at Book Fair
• Research Libraries Embrace E-Books
• Faux Folders Found for Mobipocket
• Borders revives online shop - gets flashy with Magic Shelf
• Stanford faculty debate the good and bad of e-books
• Flexible computers use displays with any shape
• Next hot cell phone trend: picture books?
• TeleRead is back!
• Guardian: No Kindle for the UK (or anywhere else outside US)
• What's up with HarperCollins? CEO resigns
• Penguin CEO: E-book is the answer to my prayers
• Borders rakes in fresh cash (and says good-bye to Australasia)
• Engst to Pogue: E-Book piracy not a given
• Amazon.com Down? - Yup, Missing in Action

E-Books - Format Conversion

• Mobigen (KindleCreator) for Linux now available

E-Book Devices - iRex iLiad

• No updates for current iLiad MobiPocket Reader

E-Book Devices - Other Portable Devices

• Pocket Tunes now available for Windows Mobile
• HP 360LX: Possible Ebook Reader

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• E-Book Upload section new features