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The Kindle Touch 3G started shipping last Friday (US time), a week earlier than the announced shipping date.

The federal government is considering a range of recommendations aimed at addressing the adverse effects on the traditional, bricks-and-mortar book industry from the online book industry and the growing popularity of e-books.

Over the last three years the use of e-books as an alternative to print books has stalled with a new global survey of 6,500 students finding students still find the two equally important for their studies. According to Gartner research director Marti Harris part of the problem is a persistent lack of standards in terms of the e-book platform.

Cries of indignation from retail booksellers at the suggestion that their industry has become an endangered species are beginning to sound like the last hurrah of the leaders of an embattled and beaten army trying to rally the troops for one last try. However, the book selling market is now disrupted and the whole supply chain is endangered.

Microsoft has initiated legal action against bookseller Barnes & Noble, alleging patent infringement by the Nook e-book readers. The manufacturers of the devices were also named.

If you don't think there are enough e-book readers on the market already, online retailer Millennius is releasing two more at the end of the week.

Apple's biggest asset has always been its marketing, and today, much to Microsoft's excitement, a book focussing on that very subject has been released online and for free.

Best-selling Australian author Garth Nix hopes that the advent of more legitimate e-books may stem the flood of pirated books on the internet.

Apple says it sold one million iPads in just 28 days - a significant improvement on initial iPhone sales.

The iPad may not be out until Saturday, but a new update had iTunes ready for it today.

Canonical is privately beta-testing its own music store, set to go live with the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, later next month. The music store will offer both DRM-free and watermark-free MP3s.