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This will be one of those behemoth marriages where everyone benefits—a little like Brangelina, and we're all the adopted kids. Ebooks, graphic novels and online/console/phone games are expected to come out of the partnership, which wi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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How's this for a double-whammy: Apple, and now Amazon, are both said to be working on "digital locker" services, which would store users' downloads music and movies in the cloud. This would back-up their purchases in case of loss, but also ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Do you ever wish that your slender ebook reader was encased in a clunky fake book just so that you can pretend that you're flipping through real pages? Me neither, but there's a device that'll grant that ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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All 50,000 of Audible's Audiobooks can now be downloaded onto the latest Kindle, over Wi-Fi. Alternatively, those who own other models can continue side-loading by USB. [Audible] More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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After Amazon pretty much shut Lendle down two days ago, they're back—all Amazon requested was for the site to disable the Book Sync tool which syncs books to the user's Lendle account. Get back to lending and borrowing those ebooks, c... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Lendle reports that their access to the Amazon API, which was revoked yesterday and is crucial to the startup’s operation, has been reinstated. Yesterday we covered Amazon’s decision to revoke Lendle’s API access. Amazon didn’t pro... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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eBook sharing site Lendle has lost access to Amazon's eBook APIs, effectively shutting them down. Lendle took advantage of the Kindle book lending feature, connecting random users who wanted to swap books digitally. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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According to the Association of American Publishers, eBook sales are doing quite well, to the tune of an 115% increase in sales this past January, compared to one year ago. Sales were $69.9 million for the month. Reading! [BGR] More ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Almost a year ago, I fell in love with the Alice for iPad app. I declared it the cleverest iPad book yet and happily recommended to friends. Now I get to recommend its silly sequel, Alice in New York. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Andy Rooney just concluded tonight's 60 Minutes (which featured an amazing segment on polar bears and spy cameras) with a segment of his own on digital books and devices like Kindle. Any guesses as to what he thinks about books that aren't ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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C'mon HarperCollins. C'mon. We know that books aren't flying off shelves like they used to, but you're not helping matters with policies like this—setting your ebooks to lock up after 26 rentals an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Well, the speculation was right on the mark: Random House, the world's largest English-language publishing house, has joined the iBookstore. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Steve Jobs is on-stage, about to drop the next-generation iPad, but before announced that publisher Random House is to make its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available via Apple’s iBooks store. Bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It's only speculation at this point, but it seems that Random House might finally be joining the iBookstore in the near future. Random House is the world's largest English-language publisher and the only one of the six major publishing hou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amanda Hocking doesn't have a deal with a major book publisher. Just as well. Because the 26-year old author is making millions self-publishing through Kindle, selling 100,000 copies of her books each mon... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Over at Social Apples, a recent 4.2.1 jailbreaker noticed something disconcerting after firing up iBooks on his newly-liberated device. Many of his ebooks didn't work. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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It’s difficult to pinpoint the first commercially-successful ebook, but many would give a nod to Stephen King’s novella Riding the Bullet. Released exclusively online in March 2000, it was purchased for $2.50 by 400,000 King fans in the first ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Do you remember when everybody was worried what Apple's iBookstore meant for apps like Amazon's Kindle? The undercurrent of dread Apple would kneecap competing ebook stores the way it does iTunes competit... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Here's an interesting factoid dropped by Amazon during their quarterly call: since the beginning of the year, Amazon has sold 115 Kindle eBooks for every 100 paperback books purchases on its site. Are we ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Virtually every current e-reader offers native support for the PDF format, but no PDF was designed for your e-reader's 5-7" screen. Briss, a cross-platform open-source tool, gives you s... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is a great deal for those already rueing the day they ever bought into the ebook craze. Over in Portland, Oregon, Microcosm Publishing trades magazines and books with you to the value of your Kindle.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Fans of holding McSweeney's quarterly tomes in their hands won't see the point in downloading ebooks from their revamped app, but for casual readers it's terrific value. Version two takes the first versio... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Much like Type n Walk shows you what's on the other side of your phone while you text, MegaReader creates a transparent backdrop for ebooks. Let's read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn in front of a tree growing... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Most textbooks and e-readers tend to follow the same idea when it comes to their fonts: Easier to read means easier to absorb and recall later. Looks like they were wrong. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon's Kindle jumpstarted the ebook revolution, but that doesn't make it the eReader of choice for everyone. If you've got some Kindle books you'd like to use with a different device, here's how to re... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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After Amazon's success developing an iPad app, they've now tailored apps for Android and Windows tablet platforms, doing the usual: giving access to 775,000 ebooks, which can be bought once and read on va... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon promised ebook loans back in late October, and today it looks as though they've finally delivered. And while Kindle loans have matched the excellence of Nook loans, the real shame is they haven't i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Want to read Kindle ebooks on a color screen? One man rooted his NookColor (which runs Android), and loaded on the Kindle app. You can follow the instructions and do it too, if you dare. [BlogKindle via C... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon doesn't like to talk numbers when it comes to Kindles—a reported 8 million were sold in 2010 alone—but they're happy to confirm one factoid: the new Kindle is the best selling product i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon isn't rushing to confirm the numbers, but there are reports that the company is on track to sell eight million Kindles in 2010. Sounds like a very happy year for the e-commerce giant. [Bloomberg vi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Kindle for Android has been updated with over 100 possible periodicals downloads, along with the "move to SD card" ability which'll save your precious memory. Plus, browse titles within the app instead of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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E-book reader options are better than ever for digital bookworms. Here are some favorite choices from the folks at Wired along with the basic things you need to know when buying an e-book reader. More&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Last week we were all calling it Google Editions, but now their ebook download store is known as Google eBooks. It's available now for Android and Apple devices as a free app, with the 3 million books var... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Delayed from 2009 to 2010, Google's ebook store Editions is rumored to launch this month in the US, and next year for the rest of the world. Taking on Amazon's Kindle platform, it'll launch with 400,00-60... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Give Me Something to Read is a fantastic, simple service: It's a collection of the best articles and essays saved with the iPhone/iPad/Kindle offline-reading service Instapaper. And you should read everyt... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Google wrote a book! Good for them. It's called 20 Things I Learned About the Web, it's free, and it will teach you all about HTML 5 and web apps, cookies and IP addresses. Christoph Niemann illustrated... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Tablets, tablets everywhere—even at the book store. So here's a question: Is Barnes & Noble's Nook Color a tablet or an ereader? It's actually something in between. And it's only $250... More&nb... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Starting early next year, the venerable NY Times is going to include ebooks in its weekly literary sales ratings. Taking their place alongside paperbacks and hardcovers, ebooks will be ranked based on a system that it took the Grey Lady two... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The same Chinese company that took hammers to an apple-shaped ice-sculpture is claiming they have the first color ereader using e-ink, due in China in March. Bet the battery life's far greater than the co... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Continuing its neverending march to platform ubiquity, Kindle will officially be available on Windows Phone 7—though maybe not in time for launch. So far Amazon's just saying that the app will be available "later this year," and that ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I'm sad because I'm part of the problem—the last time I visited a library was to photocopy something. According to the WSJ, "the Amazon.com generation" is killing the humble library, with outdoor ki... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon will add a neat new feature to its Kindle e-book program later this year, designed to let you loan Kindle e-books to your friends, either via Kindle devices or the Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad, ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Between the major software overhaul in November, a mystery announcement next week, and the introduction of Nook to the all-powerful Walmart ecosystem, it looks like Barnes and Noble might be making the ebook reader race interesting just in ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. Digital texts ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. All-digital te... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Kindle's biggest strength? More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I hadn't realized before fooling around on ebook comparison site Leatherbound.me that the Nook and iBook stores had such a rubbish selection of books. It wasn't until I typed in "Twilight" that I actually... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Amazon today put a call-out to authors, publishers or anyone keen on scribing between 10,000 - 30,000 words for their new "Kindle Singles" area of the Kindle Store, which will sell texts "twice the length of a New Yorker feature," or on the... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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One second you're on the beach reading your Kindle. The next you're standing in an open field west of a white house. That's because you're playing the text adventure classic Zork (or one of its sequels) o... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As a fan of reading, and of ebooks in particular, I knew that when the day came that electronic tomes became popular piracy would quickly emerge. A damning report released by Attributor outlining a recent rise in total ebook piracy seems to suggest that t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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