Update: These deals expire Saturday, so don’t miss your chance!

Learn everything you need to know to get around the kitchen now that Amazon marked down top cook book eBooks to $2-$7. Pick up French techniques (and maybe some inside jokes with Julia Child) from Jacque Pépin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen. Teach yourself how to make homemade pasta with The Glorious Pasta of Italy.…

Amazon just kicked off another of its periodic Fire and Kindle device deals, with $10-$20 off various devices, and up to $45 off bundles that include chargers, cases, and more.

A lot of people must have unwrapped Kindles on Christmas, because Amazon’s running a huge ebook sale for the third straight day.

For a limited time, Prime members can score larger-than-usual discounts on Amazon’s entire lineup of e-readers, including $30 off the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite, and $50 off the Kindle Voyage, which almost never goes on sale.

For a limited time, Amazon’s taking $30 off the sticker price of the two best e-ink Kindles, making for the best deal we’ve seen on the new, 300ppi Kindle Paperwhite, and the first discount ever on the high-end Kindle Voyage, save for a well-publicized price mistake.

In honor of Jon Stewart’s final farewell, Amazon is offering up to 80% off dozens of Kindle books from his most popular guests, today only.

Whether you want to learn a new programming language, get lost in a space opera, or brush up on your WWII history, Amazon's got something for you today in a massive Kindle ebook sale.

Warning: Some of these plot descriptions are hella sexually graphic.

Spurred by reading Walter Isaacson's two-million page love letter to Steve Jobs, San Antonio County Judge Nelson W. Wolff pushed for the creation of the first bookless public library system.

This week in Mark Frauenfelder Finds the Best Shit, he's tracked down a memoir written by Julie Dawn Cole, the actress who played the Girl Who Had it All But Never Even Knew It, Veruca Salt, in the good original Willy Wonka.

Frequent air travelers, rejoice! That painful period during take-off and landing when you're not allowed to use your electronic devices might soon be a lot more bearable. The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that it will work with airlines and other involved parties to find a way to determine whether…

Following the sweeping success of softcore sensation Fifty Shades of Grey, the lamestream media is figuring out that mommies and other normal-seeming ladies like to read about sex—in public. Whoa. What's next? Women having sex for reasons other than reproduction? Hold onto your hats!

Here's one problem with a Kindle: Amazon can just make your stuff disappear. And they've now decided they want to yank one woman's incest-themed erotica, among other books. Is Flowers In The Attic next? Or the Bible?

Thanks to free e-book downloads, a new fiction genre is showing up on Kindle best-seller lists: erotic fiction aimed at men. Since Amazon is essentially distributing free literary pornography, it seems only a matter of time before conservative groups protest.

Mediabistro asked one pair of industry insiders about their publishing predictions for the decade to come. Among them? "95% of all reading will be on screens" and "most authors will be indie authors." [Mediabistro]