News and Updates: Books Gone in 5 years, and E-book sales up 193%.

For all you e-reader owners: check out this site which has price comparisons for ebooks on the Kindle, the Nook, and the Ipad.

Books:
- Author Nicholas Negroponte predicts that in five years printed books will be gone.
- The Huffington Post reports on authors who are choosing to self-publish through Amazon's kindle and avoid the big publishers completely.
- Bloomberg.com discusses on the difficulty in defining a book in the digital era. 
- Mashable reports that e-book sales are 193% so far this year.
- Publisher's Weekly has an article on Border's new self-publishing site, BookBrewer.
E-Readers:
- eBooknewser discusses the ePaper display on the new Pandigital Novel.