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Big News in Ebooks

Here’s a run-down of some of the latest news in the continuing ebook wars: E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight: From The New York Times. Nook from Barnes & Noble, available for preorder now. Borders how has the Sony Reader available in several editions: Sony Reader Touch Edition Sony Reader Pocket Edition: available in silver, […]

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“I shall not be Kindled”

I shall not be Kindled | csmonitor.com: Earlier in the decade, before the so-called ‘tech bubble’ burst, then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned of ‘irrational exuberance’ in the stock market. I feel the same way about electronic readers. And I feel that articles like this miss the point. I have always been a fan of

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Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com

Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com: Thanks to Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, e-book sales are finally zooming, after more than a decade in the doldrums. But the pioneering device may not dominate the market for long. As Castaldo found, many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be

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State of the Art – Amazon.com’s Kindle Goes From Good to Better

State of the Art – Amazon.com’s Kindle Goes From Good to Better – NYTimes.com: Starting today, there’s a new Kindle. Amazon calls it the Kindle 2, but Kindle 1.1 would be more like it; the changes are fairly minor. Fortunately, they’re exactly what was needed to turn a very good reader into an even better

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Flexible electronic books to hit market soon

Flexible electronic books to hit market soon – tech – 23 February 2009 – New Scientist: GADGET-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough – until now. Plastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible

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Electronic Device Stirs Unease at BookExpo – NYTimes.com

Electronic Device Stirs Unease at BookExpo – NYTimes.com This article discusses the current status of electronic books, with focus on the two most popular ebook readers, Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. The article points out that one advantage of ebooks is that the supplier never runs out of copies.  Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the

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Troubled book world is going for novel ideas

Troubled book world is going for novel ideas – Los Angeles Times As Book Expo America, the nation’s largest annual book convention, opens today in Los Angeles, innovation — some would say desperation — will be the main order of business. More than 2,000 exhibitors from every facet of the publishing world, nearly 1,000 authors

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Amazon’s Kindle is stoking sales of e-books

Amazon’s Kindle is stoking sales of e-books The debate over e-books and the future of publishing continues, here centered around Amazon’s new e-book device, the Kindle. One person involved in the publishing industry compares e-books to audiobooks. If that’s an apt comparison, then we can only expect e-books to become increasingly more prevalent relatively quickly.

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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours

Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the “first sale” doctrine. Digital books, music and movies

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