This has been a busy week for e-book news stories. First, Gizmodo gave us a look at the new e-reader Barnes & Noble will be announcing next week. Next we hear that Google plans to open its own electronic book store using the 500,000 or so books already in Google Books as its beginning inventory. According to the Reuters story, details are a bit sketchy but they are looking at an early 2010 kickoff.

From Internet Archive, there’s this news release:

The Internet Archive is holding an evening event to introduce A Future For Books: BookServer.

The BookServer is a new distributed lending and vending system for books on the Internet.

It’s great to see so much happening in the world of electronic books. Here’s a list of e-book sources (free and for sale) collected at Diigo.

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