The market for electronic books has been sluggish thus far, but the announcement of an e-book standard might encourage more authors and readers to make the shift. [Wired]

Profiles successful electronic text projects where reading and sales are stronger than ever. [Wired]

Visitors to BookExpo America 1999 circle around the e-book booths, but few are buying - yet. [Wired]

News an analysis of a pilot program to sell electronic books in stores. [Wired]

News analysis of the slow adoption of e-books. [Wired]

Auction site eBay has apparently decided that users of its service who said no really meant yes. So, in an attempt to "help" its users, the company has informed many of them, by e-mail, that their marketing preferences were automatically being changed...

Coverage of the E-Ink and Philips Components announcement to jointly develop high-resolution e-ink displays for handheld devices, touching on the technology and benefits of such products. [Wired]

Somewhat critical overview article from Wired featuring the oldest wearable computer (1981).

By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]

"In a class action lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Newman is charging that Internet regulators, the company managing the dot-biz domain and a list of more than 30 individual registers are conducting an illegal lottery for valuab...