Another company working with E-Ink is UK firm Plastic Logic.
Priceline will launch in Europe in the autumn, potentially providing competition to UK e-commerce start-ups such as Lastminute.com.
Amazon said this week that it was selling more e-books in the UK than hardbacks, underlining the pressure on High Street book chains such as Waterstone's.
No 10 says there are anti-spam measures and people who want to sign a petition have to give an e-mail address and a UK address including postcode, or an overseas address.
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Earlier in the House of Commons, Conservative MP John Redwood - who served alongside Mr Clarke in John Major's Cabinet - suggested that the UK had been reduced to an "e-mail democracy" by Brussels.
Members of 40 Commando Royal Marines leave the Nahr-e Saraj district as the UK continues the winding down of operations in the country.
Data collected on the sales of physical books records around 90-95% of all consumer sales in the UK, but is less robust for the e-book market.
When pure e-commerce activity was counted then the UK was definitely ahead he said.
The e-mail purported to come from the UK's Jewish communal leadership, the Board of Deputies (BoD).
Virtually everyone online in France, the UK and Germany use e-mail to communicate with friends and family.
Mrs May told the committee e-borders currently screens over 65% of passenger movements into and out of the UK - but Keith Vaz and other critics say progress has stalled.
The government has already declared its intention to make the UK the best place in the world for e-commerce and it is attempting to keep the public sector up to speed with developments in the business world.
Signet has attempted to gain an injunction to prevent the brand reappearing on Ratners Online, a jewellery e-tailer Mr Ratner hopes to launch in September with second ranking UK jewellers chain Goldsmiths.
According to media releases from the company, e-books now sell more copies than printed books in the US and UK on its portals.
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By October the UK is looking to introduce strict new rules about how personal e-mail details are used to try to curb unwanted and unsolicited e-mail.
The members of the E-Health Research Initiative who are jointly funding the four centres include Arthritis Research UK, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
They then turn to E-Crime, followed by a session devoted to Capita's work for the UK Border.
Captain Abdul Manan, the young Afghan army commander in Nahr-e-Saraj, shrugs when I ask him what he thinks will happen when the UK troops go.
In the home of the founding fathers of the phenomenon in the UK, Hay-on-Wye, there are clearly mixed feelings about e-readers.
Broadband has struggled to win converts in the UK because many people can see no reason to pay more to get their e-mail quicker.
In April last year, Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in a UK hospital from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in the Nahr-e Saraj area.
And here to East Grinstead in Sussex, Scientology's UK hub, councillors or auditors learn to read your emotional state with what they call an E-meter, designed by L.Ron.
Mobcast provides a digital book retail platform with a catalogue of more than 130, 000 of the UK's most popular titles which can be bought and read on smartphones, tablets and e-readers.
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In a trading update for the three months to 30 September, the hotels and betting group said growth in its hotels division and in UK retail betting was offsetting lower profitability in telephone betting and the effect of continuing investment in e-gaming.
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