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While Gartner thinks that 2010 will see a dramatic surge of the e-reader market, certain market analysts believe that the market won't see any type of quick growth unless the actual product prices drop to around $100 (£61/€67). However, those same analysts believe that such a price cut is unlikely bec... |
23 November 2009
07:33 GMT |
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Not long after Sony stated that it wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand for its Daily Edition e-readers, Barnes and Noble, the world's largest seller of books, made a similar announcement concerning its Nook e-book readers. According to the book distributor, even though the official release date hasn... |
23 November 2009
02:36 GMT |
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“With the entry of new players, such as Barnes and Noble, into the e-reader market and an increase in models from Amazon and Sony, consumers began to have choices in single-purpose e-reading devices in 2009. Among the product differentiation points are support for E-ink’s electronic paper technology, supp... |
16 November 2009
08:28 GMT |
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The market for e-book readers appears to be expanding as a number of companies are showing their interest in developing such devices of their own. Such is the case with Taiwanese hardware manufacturer MSI, which has recently announced that it is currently working on the development of an e-book reader designed to tak... |
27 October 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Online retail is already big business in the US and Amazon is by far the largest player in the market. Its recent foray into e-books has also proven quite profitable, creating a new market for e-books and e-book readers that is becoming hotly disputed. Now Wal-Mart, one of the largest brick-and-mortar retailers in th... |
17 October 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Despite all the setbacks and resistance, Google Books is notching victory after victory. Having secured a partnership with Sony to provide more than one million public domain books to its e-book store just recently, Google has managed to strike another deal, this time with the British company Interead, to supply the ... |
2 September 2009
08:52 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of mini-laptops, better-known as netbooks, has recently confirmed plans to launch a new product, part of its growing line of Eee-branded devices. The device in question will become available as the company's first e-book reader, which will likely compete with similar... |
27 August 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Google has always been an advocate of open standards and for good reason. Open standards are good business if you know how to take advantage of them and the software giant certainly has a talent for that. And now, despite still being one of the company's most controversial projects, Google Books has started offe... |
27 August 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Google is sticking behind the Books project even though it's one of its most controversial products. Criticized by its competitors and under scrutiny by the US Department of Justice, the search giant is plowing ahead announcing a new partnership with Sony, which will allow users of the company's Reader to a... |
30 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Amazon may finally get challenged in the online book selling business, with the largest brick-and-mortar book retailer in the US, Barnes & Noble, launching a digital book store called eBookstore. The e-books will be mostly platform agnostic and available for Windows, Mac OS, iPhone, iTouch and Blackberry smartphones.... |
21 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Google has been scanning, indexing books and making them available either fully or partially for a while now, a move not without its share of controversy, but now it has announced that it will begin to sell e-books as well. This will place it in direct competition with Amazon.com, which currently offers e-books for i... |
1 June 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Author Joe Kissell has finished yet another two books for the Take Control ebook series aimed at helping Mac users keep their Macs running at optimum efficiency, while troubleshooting unexpected occurrences. TUAW, whose Steve Sande has also written several titles for the Take Control series, reports that “Tak... |
26 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Life Scientists owning an iPhone or iPod touch can now access protocols at the bench on their devices using the Promega app, available for free download through the App Store. This virtual Promega Protocols and Applications Guide provides information that is useful and applicable to scientists whether or not they are... |
9 April 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and ScrollMotion have announced the release of Curious George's Dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch. The classic children's educational book is now available for immediate purchase and download on the App Store. Curious George's Dictionary is the first children's and edu... |
8 April 2009
10:15 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Amazon is “working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, available on a variety of mobile phones.” The latest version of Kindle, the electronic book reader, is expected to launch next week, and the company seems ready to make the books ava... |
6 February 2009
09:22 GMT |
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Rejected by Apple on account of containing “objectionable content,” David Carnoy's e-book, Knife Music, has finally been approved in the App Store. The author decided to scrub some of the few lines containing the “intolerable” language. As a result, the book can now be found in the iTunes... |
19 January 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Although it may not appear so, the market of digital books is still recording an important growth, reflected in the figures their worldwide purchase cashes in. This determined Random House, Inc. (the world's largest English-language book publisher and a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the most important media... |
25 November 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Phil Ryu and Andrew Kaz's "Classics" is currently awaiting approval from Apple to enter the App Store as a downloadable e-book for iPhone and iPod touch. Classics, as its name goes, will launch featuring 10 to 12 books, but additional volumes will be added as free updates every once in a while."Andrew Kaz opened... |
24 October 2008
06:39 GMT |
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The announcement that Yahoo! and Adobe would be teaming up to test out a new ad system inside PDF documents was vastly looked over back in November when it was announced. Not because it did not have potential, but rather because it was just another way of feeding ads to the Internet users and that's what they ha... |
8 January 2008
16:26 GMT |
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Transcend, known especially as a leading company in flash memory products, has recently announced the latest of its MP3 players, dubbed T.sonic 840. Regarding the player's design, apparently, the manufacturers chose a successful combination between a mirrored surface and a cold metal body that makes the player g... |
3 August 2007
02:42 GMT |
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E Ink corporation, a specialist in electronic paper display technology, recently announced that they developed an imaging film that doubles refresh speeds and boosts brightness by 20 percent. The new Vizplex display technology comes as an effort to improve the slow refresh and the low contrast offered by their curren... |
10 May 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Given that Amazon sells tons of books over the Internet and they've already started selling their own "materials", it's no surprise they had a brainstorm and decided to follow the market's torturous path. The company is now revealing the e-book concept. Details about the "Kindle" reader have been made... |
24 April 2007
04:29 GMT |
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With the recent technological improvement, mobile communication consumers have become more interested in the services provided by mobile communication industry.Directly from the mobile phone, they prefer paying, reading, or watching live streaming videos more than exploring the social pattern of communication. So, ma... |
13 April 2007
09:49 GMT |
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This day and age, information is well within reach, and jut about any computer can hold a library's worth of books. Huge storage capacities and the ease with which the Internet allows the exchange of information means that any one of us could spend several lifetimes reading.While e-books are old and established ... |
29 March 2007
12:03 GMT |
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