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In many fields, amateurs are rivaling professionals in opportunity, talent and the ability to produce quality work online." />

Amazon's Kindle is taking some knocks from the National Federation for the Blind.

Apple Tablet, Publishers Not Included? - 10/30/2009

A private school in Ashburnham, Mass. began to get rid of most of the school's library books and replaced them with a digital collection.

Review of Kindle for PC software....

Taiwan's DigiTimes is reporting today that Apple has decided to postpone the launch of its pending tablet product until the second half of 2010. The main reason for the supposed delay is switch in the displays being used: Apple, the...

Borders and Barnes & Noble posted downbeat results and expressed fear the weak economy will keep shoppers from stores despite offerings from well-known authors." />

Barnes & Noble said it won't have any of its Nook electronic-book reading devices in stores until Dec. 7, so that it can meet shipments of pre-orders. " />

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Barnes and Noble offers plenty of newspaper subscriptions for the Nook to fine publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times, but if you are looking for a way to turn your Nook into a news reader for free, here's how.

Google will make inroads into the ereader market next week when the first such device using the Google eBooks platform will go on sale at Target. The iriver Story HD will retail for $139.99 - the same price as the Kindle and the Nook Simple Touch Reader - at the chain July 17, according to a blog post from Google.

Now you can get badges for reading Google News. The company is offering a variety of 500 different emblems, each one for a particular topic. As you become more well-read, you'll get a star added to the badge for that topic. There are five different levels of the stars, starting with a bronze star, and as you read more articles you receive a silver, gold, platinum and the coveted blue ultimate star.

The Boy Who Lived also helped breathe new life into the struggling publishing industry. Even before Harry Potter became one of the most successful movie heroes of all time, the Potter books were turning countless people into readers. But that's not all they did.

"The Sony Reader, priced from $180 to $300, will probably be offered with hardware and software improvements in August, Phil Lubell, vice president of digital reading at Sony Electronics, said yesterday in an interview in San Francisco."

Jul 4th 2011, 21:43 by E.B. | LONDON TO DESCRIBE the woes of bricks-and-mortar bookstores is to join the dirge-singing chorus. Everyone knows the tune: sales at bookstores have fallen because buyers are ordering books online or downloading them to e-readers. Bookstores may be great places to browse and linger, but online is where the deals are.