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Sandra Rivera

The Digital Future of Books - WSJ.com - 0 views

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digital books

shared by Sandra Rivera on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 08 Sep 09
     
    After a long hiatus, online bookseller Amazon is back trying to encourage us to read in a new way. Its Web site now features this description of its Kindle reading device: "Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available." This good news for consumers comes after the first batch of the devices sold out in just six hours late last year.
Katharina Muders

Barnes & Noble E-Reader Could Come Oct. 20 With Lending Options - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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ebooks ereader

shared by Katharina Muders on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Katharina Muders on 11 Oct 09
     
    An invitation to a New York event suggests Barnes & Noble may introduce its e-reading device on Oct. 20 with a feature other devices don't have.
Sandra Rivera

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

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ebooks

shared by Sandra Rivera on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 28 Oct 09
     
    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.
Nicole Webb

Insurers Shun Multitasking Speech Devices - 0 views

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Iphone

shared by Nicole Webb on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Nicole Webb on 15 Sep 09
     
    Devices like iPhones and netbook PCs that can help the speech-impaired are not covered by Medicare or insurers.
Shan Luo

Google to launch online book store, rules out Kindle-like device - 1 views

www.smh.com.au/...like-device-20091016-h0n5.html

Google ebooks

shared by Shan Luo on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Shan Luo on 16 Oct 09
     
    Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.
Yichen Zhu

The Pros and Cons of Buying E-Books - PC World - 0 views

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shared by Yichen Zhu on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Yichen Zhu on 27 Aug 09
     
    The Amazon Kindle is a handy device, but owners should shop carefully for e-books and consider no-cost options as well.
Suzanne Cardwell

Amazon.com's 1984 Problems Are Just Beginning - BusinessWeek - 1 views

www.businessweek.com/...tc2009084_132111.htm

e-book digital rights digital publishing

shared by Suzanne Cardwell on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Suzanne Cardwell on 05 Aug 09
     
    The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.
Shan Luo

Democratic Group's Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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kindle

shared by Shan Luo on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Shan Luo on 27 Sep 09
     
    A proposal from the Democratic Leadership Council calls for investigating ways to give electronic reading devices to every student in the United States.
Katharina Muders

A New Electronic Reader, the Nook, Enters the Market - 0 views

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ebook ereader

shared by Katharina Muders on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Katharina Muders on 21 Oct 09
     
    As widely expected, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.
Sandra Rivera

Kindle versus Touchtablet: buy now or (i)wait? - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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ebooks kindle

shared by Sandra Rivera on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 28 Oct 09
     
    Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year
yunju wang

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

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online text

shared by yunju wang on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • yunju wang on 08 Sep 09
     
    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.
Huang Jing

Book trade seeks a deal with Google - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSTRE5983WY20091010

google; e-book; reading device.

shared by Huang Jing on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Huang Jing on 12 Oct 09
     
    the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.
HUANHUAN XU

Google's e-book plan slammed as 'hysterical garbage' - 1 views

www.smh.com.au/...cal-garbage-20091019-h3ha.html

Googlee-book copyright

shared by HUANHUAN XU on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • HUANHUAN XU on 19 Oct 09
     
    Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with web browsers, from mobile phones to desktop computers, challenging Amazon's Kindle e-book reader which forces buyers to buy books through the company
Huang Jing

Alex', An Android-Powered, Dual Screen E-Book Reader - 0 views

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e-book convergence culture.

shared by Huang Jing on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Huang Jing on 20 Oct 09
     
    The convergence culture again reflect on dual-screen device. we are looking forward to a design as perfect as the paper book itself.
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