According to this article on AppleInsider, Apple is not stopping with electronic books, and is attempting to attack Amazon’s mp3 download business as well.
Sources say that iTunes representatives have been urging labels to rethink their participation in the Amazon promotion and that they have backed up those warnings by withdrawing marketing support for certain releases [...]

Last week, Apple announced their third generation iPod shuffle. The new version is so small that the controls don’t fit on the body and are actually located on the earphone cable.
Personally I don’t understand why anybody would want a music player that’s so small you could lose it among the lint in [...]