Amazon’s tablet is the first to inflict serious damage on Apple’s monolithic market share.

The largest collection of New Zealand e-books could be ready by Christmas in an initiative to get New Zealand titles in digital format.

Um, wrong way, guys.

RedGroup Retail, the Australian owner of Whitcoulls and the local iteration of Borders, has today launched New Zealand's first e-book tablet and its major e-book download store.

As Amazon desperately tries to sweep away the bad PR from its Big Brother wiping of e-books from consumer’s readers with a $150,000 cash settlement, a local e-book advocate says the e-retailer’s troubles are unlikely to have a major effect on the increasing popularity of digital books.

Amazon fell into a black hole of bad publicity in June when it remotely deleted copies of the George Orwell novels Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm from its Kindle readers after incorrectly believing the titles were in the public domain.

People snickered when Amazon first released its Kindle e-book tablet, which receives Kindle-formatted e-books, magazines and newspapers downloaded from Amazon.com via wi-fi or the cellular radio built into each reader.