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Amazon Kindle 2, Kindle DX Upgrade: eReader Gets Bigger Font, Audible Menus

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology

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SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired user...

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Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New

Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

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Wednesday Martin

As of December 7, short stories by Christopher Buckley, Edna O'Brien (and by January Curtis Sittenfeld, and presumably many others) are available on Kindle, courtesy of a deal with the Atlantic Monthly.

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Free eBooks For Kindle: How To Find Them

CNET | John P. Falcone | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

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[F]ear not, Kindle owners: you too have access to many of the ... public domain titles, numbering in the thousands. The problem is finding them. While...

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Amazon Sucks Up To Big Literary Agents

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

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Amazon.com has gone on a charm offensive. The online retailing giant flew out a dozen of New York's top literary agents last week for a day of meetin...

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Lulu Takes On Amazon In eBooks

News & Observer | ALAN M. WOLF | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

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The Raleigh-based online book publisher is now selling electronic books by traditional authors, expanding beyond its lineup of self-published titles f...

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iPhone eBooks: Competition For Kindle And Nook?

PC World | David Coursey | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

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Just because a Flurry study found that more book apps than games were developed for the iPhone over the past four months does not mean the Kindle and ...

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The Great Conversation Interrupted. Kindle, Annotated.

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

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Gerald Sindell

When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.

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Going Digital

Jean Naggar | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

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Jean Naggar

As we head at a fast clip into an unimaginable future, we need to keep a clear vision and a firm grip on what had meaning in the past. The desire to shape and share our stories is embedded in our DNA.

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Apple Tablet: A Kindle-Killer?

PC Magazine | Tim Bajarin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

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There is, however, a device on the horizon that could really disrupt the e-reader market, and may even render them irrelevant in the near future. The ...

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How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

David Rothman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

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David Rothman

Suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.

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Price Wars, eReader Wars: Will They Hurt Books?

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

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Yesterday, Barnes & Noble unveiled their new eReader, the Nook. The sleek new model is the latest in a series of new eReaders popping up recently to c...

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New e-Book Readers To Compete With Kindle

TIME | Adam Rose | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

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Amazon is about to be attacked by a squadron of would-be Kindle killers that are being brought to market by some of the biggest names in consumer elec...

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Kindle Confessions

Jane Isay | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

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Jane Isay

I read like a madwoman. I would get drowsy, and on those long reading afternoons when the Kindle slipped from my hand, it fell silently on the pillow and I slept.

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"Can't We All Just Get Along?" -- A Manifesto of Sorts

Steve Ross | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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Steve Ross

I have noticed over the past few years a troubling trend entering the picture, a trend that is encapsulated in the blogs posted by Chip O'Brien and Mark Coker.

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Amazon 1984 Settlement: High School Student Awarded $150,000

Computer World | Matt Hamblen | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books

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Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a Michigan high school student and an California academic whose elec...

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My Kindle Ate My Homework: Amazon Pays For Deleting Student's eBook

Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

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Justin D. Gawronski, a high school senior from Michigan, has just made history, twice: not only did he settle a lawsuit that forced Amazon.com to clar...

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Kindle 2 Hits Europe In October

The Guardian | Charles Arthur | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

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The Bookseller magazine says that "authoritative sources" have told it that Amazon will "finally announce the arrival" of the Kindle 2 e-book in the U...

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Dan Brown: 'The Lost Symbol' On Kindle Outselling Hardcovers

Telegraph | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

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The Kindle edition of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, his follow-up to 2003's smash hit The Da Vinci Code, has become the top-selling item on Amazon.com....

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Are E-Readers Greener Than Books?

nytimes.com | Joe Hutsko | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

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A new study analyzing the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader's impact on the environment suggests that, on average, the carbon emitted over the life...

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Whatever Happened To Amazon's "Save The Newspapers" Plan?

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

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Whatever happened to Amazon's plan to work with the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WPO) to bundle newspaper subscriptions with its jumb...

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The Writing on the Monitor: The Coming Death of Amazon.com

Alex Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

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Alex Green

Like the auto companies before them, Internet retailers used your roads, your government, and your tax subsidized infrastructure to support non-viable companies that killed your local businesses. Nothing in life, as the saying goes, is free.

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Re-"Kindle" Our Past with Green Technology

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

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Jonathan A. Schein

Preserving books is one of our most important duties if we are going remain relevant in the eyes of future societies.

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My Kindle Ate My Homework

Marc Hershon | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media

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Marc Hershon

Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.

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Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle

New York Times | Brad Stone | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media

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In George Orwell's "1984," government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute...

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Eebs: A History of Future Publishing

Giles Slade | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

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Giles Slade

The Kindle is for the book-lover who might buy a first, a signed or a special edition. It is lingerie. It is a box of chocolates or a bottle of double-malt. Competition will drive it to adapt, and it will.

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