ASI task force for developing indexing techniques for ebooks.

Perhaps the best blog on "libraries and ebooks" -issue

Raw ebook server logs were analyzed to see exactly how users discovered, navigated and used the course ebooks.

Initiative by Pearson foundation. By reading online children's books, one donates a hardcopy book for a children in need.

Pretty much like MacHeist bundles for software, but for books.

More details on Douglas County Libraries DIY E-book hosting.

This is really good news.

Crowdsourcing-based method for releasing books licenced with CC license.

Okay, this is it. Ereader I have been waiting for. Gotta wait for iPad 3 announcement and then go forward.

Dicussion forum for ebooks authors in Finland.

Generates OPDS and HTML catalogs from Calibre ebooks database.

The Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog is a syndication format for electronic publications based on Atom RFC4287 and HTTP RFC2616. Catalogs enable the aggregation, distribution, discovery, and acquisition of electronic publications. OPDS Catalogs use existing or emergent open standards and conventions, with a priority on simplicity.

Spec for flexible ebook distribution.

Open source web-based collaborative tool for creating and publishing ebooks.

Ebook library for storing public domain and bought ebooks.

Automatically created (?) books from top questions from a selection of top tags on Stack Overflow.

Ebook research at Strathyclyde University.

Framework for publishing books on iPad using open web standards (HTML5+CSS3+JS)

Multiplatform WYSIWYG ebook editor. Has full EPUB spec support.

Most probably I should buy this instead of EEE-PC, as I intend to use it mainly for reading. Unlike Kindle, it's completely open, DRM-free and available in Europe.

Beautiful and functional CHM reader for OSX. For Leopard only.

Huge collection of digitized books (really, 1,5mil.) incl. rare and very old books. By Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Zhejiang University (China), the Indian Institute of Science (India) and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt.

O'Reilly publishing is now offering PDF versions of their books in single-chapter downloads. Wonderful! I hope other publishers are following.