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Yichen Zhu

The seven ages of magazine readers - Media news - Media Week - 0 views

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    Read The seven ages of magazine readers & other Media Week news online. The seven ages of magazine readers from Media Week. Media Week magazine - news and information from the world of media
Amit Kelkar

Digital Book Readers : The #1 eBook Readers guide - 1 views

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    Detailed website about ebook readers
Craig Betts

New Digital Book Readers Spark Competition for Kindle - TIME - 0 views

  • such as video-display capability and full Web browsers. The year
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    New E Readers feature article.  2009 is a breakout year for e readers
Lauren Robb

The Kindle: the Next Big Thing in Reading? | Best ebook reader | Best Ebook Reader - 2 views

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    This article discusses the kindle reader - what it is, content, downsides.
Amit Kelkar

Guide to ebook readers - 1 views

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    Not bad website which evaluates various ebook readers.
Huang Jing

Will E-readers Help Save the Newspaper Industry? - 0 views

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    "E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape."
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    most publishers are looking at E-readers as simply a fourth platform for delivering content-besides print, Web and mobile.
Lauren Robb

E-Reader vs. Kindle: Reasons Amazon Should Worry - 0 views

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    Reasons why the Sony e-reader is better than then Kindle - cheaper, offers more features, more choice, etc.
Adriana Delgado

Is the e-book reader a new chapter for literature? - Times Online - 0 views

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    The man from Sony smiled sheepishly when asked whether his two new e-book reader models are superior to conventional books.
Amit Kelkar

Sony's new Reader lineup assaults Amazon biz plan - 0 views

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    Sony released a 7-inch, $399, touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi e-book reader this morning, and it's never more obvious that Amazon is up against a wall in the market segment it helped create.
Craig Betts

Amazon's Kindle e-reader coming to Australia | News | News.com.au - 1 views

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    E- Reader, Amazon, Future, books, Newspapers
Adriana Delgado

E-book readers: the latest chapter - Times Online - 0 views

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    Last generation of e-book readers announced.
Sandra Rivera

Ebooks and ebook readers - Trading knowledge - Frank Norman's blog on Nature Network - 1 views

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    There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an attractive price.
Sandra Rivera

Can a School Library Be Replaced by E-Readers? Apparently, it Can - 0 views

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    Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.
Suzanne Cardwell

Sony Turns the Page with Its New Reader - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.
Huang Jing

Amazon.com takes Kindle global - 0 views

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    Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.
yunju wang

Apple Says it Isn't Interested in eBooks, But It's Now Selling an iTunes LP Comic Book - 0 views

  • one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link).
  • The book comes with a number of extras, including a 23-minute making-off video, alternate covers, concept art, wallpapers, and optional voice-over narration and sound effects
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    While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month
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    My question will be: what is the difference between the multimedia ebook and the mini laptop?
Huang Jing

Google Books adds Creative Commons licenses - Research Information - 0 views

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    It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.
Katharina Muders

Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books - Business Exchange - 0 views

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    Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
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    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
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