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The Case Against DRM on eBooks [Ebooks]





Not only is Charlie Stross a published sci-fi author, but he is also an advocate for DRM-free eBooks. As such, he's put together a thoughtful argument as to why DRM-free eBooks will be good for the publish...
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The US Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (Updating) [Apple]





According to Bloomberg, the U.S. DOJ just filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple over the pricing of eBooks. Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin were also named in the lawsuit too. ...
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The Case for Buying iPads for Your Kids [Tablets]





My wife and I made the decision last year to equip our kids with iPads, something that might have sounded excessive only the year before. Now it only makes sense. When you do the math, an iPad (or tablet o...
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Apple Speaks Out Over Ebook Price Fixing Allegations [Ebooks]





With the US Department of Justice breathing down its neck, Apple is attempting to defend itself over allegations of ebook price fixing—claiming that it's the victim of conspiracy theories and over-an...
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Justice Department Threatens Apple With Lawsuit Over Ebook Price Fixing [Ebooks]





The Justice Department has warned Apple, along with five major publishing houses, that it plans to sue them for joining forces to raise the price of ebooks, according to the Wall Street Journal. If success...
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Reading Books on a Tablet Is Dumb [EReaders]





Convergence devices like tablets and smartphones are great because they eliminate the need for having a million different gadgets whose performance is only marginally better. But there are some instances w...
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On Second Thought, the Nook Simple Touch Is the Best eReader [Bestmodo]





For ereaders, it's a two-horse game. Kindle and Nook. Nook and Kindle. We've spent a lot of time with the two flagship models (and the non-touch Kindle 4), and we gotta say: We called it wrong. The Nook Si...
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Leebre: a Jamendo-inspired platform for free ebooks
Commercial ebook publishing and distribution is a crowded space: Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes and Noble and others each have stores and devices for digital books, which have been seeing consistent growth. Ebooks are undoubtedly the future of long-from co...
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Maurice Sendak: "F*ck Ebooks" [Video]





Many gathered around the tube for Stephen Colbert's feisty interview with everyone's favorite reclusive children's book author, Maurice Sendak. It's always a delight when old people weight in on new techn...
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Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students

A year ago, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston’s big idea: the first interactive marine science textbook.
Johnston, who runs a marine biology lab at Duke University, wanted the digital tome to show undergraduate students ...
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How to Publish Your Ebook on Kindle!
Did you know that you may get your articles and books printed by means of kindle? That is facilitated by means of Amazon. It is a very thrilling new method to get your stuff printed and seen by so many people. The perfect part is that it wont price you so...
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Are Tablets and E-Readers Responsible For a Rebirth of Reading? [Tablets]





According to The Economist, we're entering a new age of digital consumption: Lean Back 2.0. They say tablets and e-readers are to thank, but is it all just hyperbole about hypertext? More »
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Kindle Touch Lightning Review: The Only Book Gadget You Need [Kindle]






We've more or less accepted e-readers as the best way to read a book digitally, but there's still a whole lot that gadgets can do that e-readers suck at—literally anything you own with a screen is b...
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How to Load Up Your Ereader with Ebooks For Free [Lifehacker]






Amazon unveiled their Kindle Lending Library for Amazon Prime members last week, but even if you're a Prime member, the new Lending Library only offers you a single book per Prime account, and if you use...
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Subtext for iPad: Reading Together Is Pretty Fun [IPad Apps]






Reading is a pretty personal experience. But that doesn't mean it has to be lonely. People join book clubs! People go to author readings! People want to share. Subtext for iPad makes it easier to do all t...
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Read the Revelations in Full: Book of Jobs Now Available [Steve Jobs]






Almost the entire book has leaked already, but now it's time to read the whole thing cover to cover. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is available starting today in hardback with ebooks available since...
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Amazon's Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms [Kindle]






The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. Fu...
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Pottermore Won't Sell Harry Potter Until Next Year [Video]






Pottermore was supposed to be huge. Instead, it's a million crazed Potter fans, most of them kids, playing Harry Potter minigames. Great! Kids love minigames. But why the hell isn't Pottermore selling Ha...
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Noted Literary Dunce Ayn Rand Finally Goes Interactive with Atlas Shrugged App [IPad Apps]






That pretentious kid from high school/college/life who cited Ayn Rand quotes about the glory of self-interest and the triumph of the free market, despite being kind of a broke-ass loser? He's about to sta...
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How Ikea Redesigned Its Bookshelves for a Bookless World [Publishing]






Books aren't dead. Let's not even say they're dying, not yet. But physical books, the musty tomes you checked out from the library, are most certainly on the decline—to the point that Ikea has redes...
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Interactive Kindle Books Are My Kind of Nostalgia [Kindle]






I think we can all agree that if Shakespeare had been alive in the late-80s, he would've written Choose Your Own Adventure books. So thank you, Amazon, for bringing one of mankind's greatest literary genr...
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Amazon Should Buy WebOS [WebOS]






If there was one company that could rival Apple, Google and Microsoft, it's Amazon. It has devices; it has a content marketplace. But what Amazon doesn't have is its own platform. webOS could be the final...
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The Father of the eBook Is Dead [Rip]






Michael Hart invented the ebook. The idea that gave the Kindle a reason to exist, has helped float the iPad to its peak, and is currently killing bookstores. But before all that, he just wanted books to b...
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Has the Sony Reader Wi-Fi Actually Got a Shot? [Sony]






Sony may have been the first major electronics manufacturer to bring ebook readers to the US, but a series of unfortunate products saw them cede the race to Kindle and Nook. The PRS-T1, though, could be S...
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Amazon Now Offers Kindle Daily Deals [Dealzmodo]






If you have a Kindle (or a PC/iOS/Android device), and like cheap books (I assume you do, but who knows, maybe you derive pleasure from hemorrhaging cash), Amazon now offers a daily deal for books. Mor...
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Amazon Is a Book Publisher For Reals Now [Amazon]






Tim Ferris, of 4 Hour [Insert Topic du Jour Here] fame, is putting out his next book through Amazon. But he's not using their self-publishing platform. He's the first writer to enter into their actual pub...
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Lawsuit Filed Against Apple and Book Publishers Over Illegal Ebook Price Fixing [Apple]






Anything's possible when people club together—just look at the UK riots as a really bad example of that. Class-action law firm Hagens Berman's seeking more plaintiffs for its lawsuit against Apple a...
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Get 12 Classic Nook Ebooks Free In Barnes & Noble's Back-To-School Offer [Blip]


If you register your new Nook before October 31st, B&N will give you 12 free classic ebooks plus a bunch of study guides (don't groan, students), which amounts to over $100 of goodies apparently. [B&N via Engadget] More »
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The Borders Goodbye Email Is Like Watching Old Yeller in Slow Motion [Farewell]






Just when the snarkbot in me wanted to giggle at Borders like a great big jerk, they go and send this genuinely heartfelt farewell message. In summary: they got their butts kicked, and they're sorry. So a...
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It's Going to Be a Real Pain Downloading Harry Potter Books to Kindle [Ebooks]






J.K. Rowling made a splash when she announced Harry Potter will be available as ebooks for the first time, through a Pottermore website launching this Fall. Thankfully she's allowed Google—and these...
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Will Sony's New Ebook Readers Ride the Comeback Wave? [Blip]


The little details like what Sony's new ebook readers will look like—and how they'll differ from the disastrous legacy of the Sony Reader line—aren't there. But Bloomberg's news that Sony's revamping its line is welcome nonethel...
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Nook Comes with 30 Free Books If You Give Up Your Old Ebook Reader [Dealz]


For those who've considered abandoning their first-generation Kindle or bit of Sony ebook awkwardness, Barnes & Noble just sweetened the pot. The book and Nook seller is offering 30 free Nook books when you exchange your old ebook reader fo...
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Free Penguin Classics App Doesn't Contain Ebooks, But Has Plenty More Nostalgic Features [Apps]






We may still be waiting for Penguin's beautiful childrens' book-reading iPad app, but if you favor their Classics range, this free annotated listing app will be a nice companion to that battered paperback...
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Pottermore Is the Ebook's Beatles on iTunes Moment [Video]






Well, that rumor about Pottermore being a smartphone was completely wrong. But that's okay, because that was an idiotic prospect, and the truth is more interesting: Harry Potter will sell as ebooks for t...
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Kindle's Most Prolific Self-Publishers Are Spammers [Spam]






Amazon's Kindle hasn't just revolutionized the publishing industry by making dead tree tomes increasingly obsolete. It's also opened the door to thousands of self-made Shakespeares, self-publishers who se...
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Kobo Touch E-Reader: You'll Want to Love It, But... [Lightning Review]






The Kobo Touch is a lighter, smaller, even more minimal E-reader than its closest known relative, the Simple Touch Nook. And in some areas of performance, the Kobo outguns it and the Kindle 3. More&nb...
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Kindle to make up 10 percent of Amazon’s sales next year
Amazon’s Kindle sales may not necessarily compare to Apple’s iPad, but that’s not to say that the device hasn’t become a significant part of Amazon’s sales.
In fact, the Kindle has become such an important part of Amazon̵...
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Well At Least Those Useless Paper Books Are Good For Something [Desired]






IRL books. Psssssssssssssh. Those stupid things are just collecting dust now that I have e-readers and tablets and all sorts of stuff for consuming books in the obviously superior digital format. So what ...
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Rumor: New Nook Is a Stripped-Down E-Ink Touchscreen Reader [Unconfirmed]


Oh gosh, this is awkward. Please no one tell Kobo that their first actually interesting product—an E-Ink ebook reader with a touchscreen—is about to get blasted out of the water by a new Nook that does the same thing. More&nb...
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New Google eBooks Translation Marks the Beginning of Deep Cultural Change [Futurism]


Google eBooks just got upgraded with real time translation. This feature is another step towards the destruction of language barriers that limit worldwide cultural sharing. Something that, eventually, will deeply change the core of the huma...
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Kindle Books Now Beating All Print Versions Combined [Books]


Pa-per? What is pa-per? Some sort of cereal? Do you wear it? What—people used to read things off of it?! No. I can't believe this, because I live in a world in which Kindle copies officially outsell everything. More »
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Epson and E Ink Joining Forces to Make a 300 DPI Display [Blip]


In an effort to better compete with the tablet onslaught and qHD/Retina displays, Epson and E Ink are collaborating on a 300 DPI display that will bring a 2400x1650 resolution to a 9.7-inch screen. [ZD Net] More »





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"Stay Tuned" for That Amazon Tablet, Says Big Boss Bezos [Blockquote]


Rumors of an Amazon tablet—we'd say something like an über-Kindle—started all the way back in September. But with speculation sizzling that the device might ship later this year, the company's apparently decided to start banging...
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A New Nook from Barnes & Noble on May 24 [EReaders]


Barnes & Noble mentioned in a federal filing yesterday that they plan on announcing a "new eReader device" on May 24. Question: Is it going to be a new E-Inkier alternative to the Nook Color? Or a more powerful full-blown Android tablet? I'...
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Our Choice for iPad and iPhone [Video]






While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there's no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choic...
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Soon You'll Be Borrowing Kindle Ebooks From Your Local Library [Ebooks]


Amazon's announced—but not yet activated—a new service that will let you take out (read: download) ebooks from your local library and enjoy them on your Kindle or Kindle app. More »






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eBooks Are Now Overtaking All Other Formats [Ebooks]






It's starting to get a little frustrating when people ask whether or not they should get an eReader. Yes. If sales are any indication, whether you opt for a Kindle, Nook, or even your iPhone, ebooks are o...
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Your Favorite Author Can Sign Your Ebook, Without Having to SIGN Your Ebook [Ebooks]


This is one dilemma owners of Kindles, Nooks and iPads inevitably face: How the hell can I get my favorite author to sign that book I've got stored in my Ebook reader? Sure, you can always get him to scrawl his signature on the back of your...
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This Sponsored Gadget is the Beginning of the…Look, Free Stuff! [Opinion]






Amazon's new Kindle is really their old one made cheaper by the inclusion of ads. It at first caused me utter outrage. I felt as angry as if if someone took my favorite book (The Silent World by Jacques C...
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How Much Less Would You Pay For a Kindle With Ads? [Kindle]


Want to save a few bucks on a Kindle and enjoy being told what to buy? Well! Amazon's set to unleash Kindle with Special Offers upon Best Buy and Target next month, a device that costs $25 less than a Wi-Fi Kindle—but makes up for it ...
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