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Copia, Social Reading App/Network/Store, Comes Alive
Copia, the social reading platform unveiled at CES in early 2010, is live. It won’t be officially announced until next week, and it’s still rough around the edges. Call it a public beta, call it a...
View ArticleSupreme Court Considers Kindle v. iPad
Newly-approved Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is a Kindle user, while longtime conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wields an iPad. This nugget of information appeared in a recent video clip on...
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Read (Some of) Your Own Books on Kindle for iPad
You can now add your own ebooks to Amazon’s Kindle App on iOS devices, as well as books from Project Gutenberg and other copyright-free sources. Great news, right? Not so fast. The release notes for...
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Amazon to Provide Library Lending for Kindle
Sometimes you need a book, but you don’t necessarily want to buy it. That’s what libraries were great for (remember those?). You could check out a book — say, if you needed it for a research paper, or...
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Kobo Working on Web App to Bypass App Store Restrictions
E-book and e-reader seller Kobo is planning an HTML5 web app to bypass Apple’s latest restrictions on its iOS devices. In the last few days, Kobo’s iOS app, along with Amazon’s Kindle app and Barnes...
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Julia Child Goes Electric: Mastering the Art of French Cooking E-Book This Week
When it comes to media, these days I’m pretty much all digital, all the time. Books, TV, movies, music — nothing sinks into my brain without first running through an iPad or a Kindle. But in one area,...
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Rumor: Apple iBooks Event in New York This Month
Apple is planning a “media event” in New York Later this month, according to All Things D. The event will likely be presented by Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services (and...
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Kindle Touch Goes International; Bookstores, 3G Networks, Tablets, Not So Much
On Tuesday, Amazon announced wide international availability for its Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G e-readers. Beginning on April 27, with preorders available now, Amazon will ship its top-end E-Ink...
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Things We Love: Valentine Edition
Every once in a while, something comes a long that ingrains itself into our lives until we can't imagine how we got along without it. Here are 12 such items.
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Prepare Your Eyeballs: E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming
E-books are getting the Spotify subscription model.
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Amazon Patents ‘DVD Extras’ for E-Books
As far as media delivery goes, e-books are pretty flat. You get the book and maybe some notes or background info from the publisher, and that's pretty much it. That's not good enough for Amazon. The...
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