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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.

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

My question will be: what is the difference between the multimedia ebook and the mini laptop?

e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?

THEY may look more like vacuum cleaners with eyes, but Matilda and Jackson are the next generation of nurses and "emotionally intelligent" babysitters.

As texting has gone mainstream among the over-20 set, the acronyms have only grown longer and more confusing, giving rise to the necessity of online lexicons for parents and CEOs alike. "

The idea is that users will be able to anonymously upload material, and Wikileaks will verify it. A tool for journalists and bloggers to release information without their identity being compromised.

"An Apple, Inc. patent application for new forms of multi-touch and secret meetings with publishers are fueling speculation about an Apple tablet computer to "redefine print." An analyst said a touchscreen Apple tablet could be a "killer application" for reading. The emphasis for an Apple tablet could be on interactive magazines and textbooks."

Google Book Search is offering a new service that lets customers print new physical copies of rare and out-of-print books from its ebook library. The books will be printed-to-order at local bookstores and sold for under $10.

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.

It is quite interesting that we can free access the state salaries databases. however, is that imformation really accuracy and reliable?

A new report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings.

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The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA.

According to Marcus, digital technology creates two opposing cultures: one is creating works with copyright, another is illegally making use of those works. In the academic world, we are fear of copyright law, but outside the academic world we use the internet to download, mix and create another work. And this is where the Creative Commons arrives.

Hardly a day went by this week without a major new announcement in the eBook and eReader arena. The wireless eReaders from Sony and the Irex/Barnes & Noble ...

This is a important step forward and that people are realizing that putting information and pics online is not always that helpful.

On October 7 in a New York courtroom he will preside over a "fairness hearing" for a deal between Google and US publishers and authors to put millions of books online.

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