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Looks like people who want e-books from Penguin will have to buy them online, download them to a computer and then transfer them to their e-reader via USB.
For those that don't remember, Amazon's Kindle Library is just what its name implies: a service for free download of book.
Sure, users have to agree... |
13 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Wildlife Response Centre is now responsible for the fate of 43 blue penguins and one dotterel, since other 23 have been released in the vicinity of Motiti Island by a team of coastal volunteers. At this point in time, it seems that the Rena oil spill is making less and less victims, since authorities have to deal wit... |
19 December 2011
10:53 GMT |
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The end of a bad romance marks the beginning of another. This appears to be the case of one of the separated “gay” penguins sheltered by the Toronto zoo. The two cute creatures shared an uncommon affection that made them famous worldwide, the Telegraph informs. Although Facebook fans struggled to conv... |
13 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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Thousands of dead birds killed during the devastating Rena oil spill, immortalized in a video, deliver a powerful message.
350 tonnes of oil that leaked into the Bay of Plenty terminated almost 20,000 birds. Their tragic ending is under the spotlight once again to make sure that deep-sea drilling projects would be p... |
12 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Penguin books were suddenly pulled form the online Amazon Kindle Library lending service, but they seem to have returned, at least in part.
What that means is that existing e-books can be borrowed again, but there is no word on future releases, according to OverDrive anyway.
No details were provided, even now, ab... |
25 November 2011
08:40 GMT |
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We already said how owners of the Amazon Kindle e-readers or tablets can loan books from an online library, but even though the service hasn't existed for long, one supplier of e-books decided to suddenly cut off access to its titles.
It was a report from The Digital Shift that brought to attention how US cust... |
22 November 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Batman: Arkham City includes quite a few Batman villains, which has driven some players to believe that the roles they play will be limited, but a representative at developer Rocksteady says that the decision to make the game open world is what lead to larger cast of characters.Talking to Joystiq, Dax Ginn, who is th... |
3 October 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to release a series of titles called Flips, which will bring interactive children's books to the Nintendo DS platforms. The stories themselves will be provided by United Kingdom book publishers Egmont Press and Penguin. It's not clear how many titles Electronic Ar... |
13 October 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Recently, about 370 penguins that mysteriously got cast adrift on northeastern Brazil's equatorial beaches have been carried back to their originating places on a Brazilian southern beach. According to a statement of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the young Magellanic were flown and release... |
8 October 2008
08:17 GMT |
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1. Since always, penguins have posed a huge issue for taxonomists. No one could say which group of living birds was closest to the penguins, because of their peculiar traits like the wing turned into a flipper and their oddly shaped feathers, which are uniform and resemble small stiff scales. For long, this made biol... |
5 May 2008
09:47 GMT |
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1. The killer whale or orca is, together with the Great White Shark, the top predator of the oceans. The name of "whale" is deceptive, as this cetacean is not even a toothed whale, but a dolphin. That's right, the largest of all: males can be up to 8 m (26 ft) long and weigh up to 8 tonnes. The mouth is adorned ... |
25 February 2008
10:00 GMT |
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In the North Pole, the first major victim of the global warming seems to be the polar bear. In Antarctica, the victims could be the Adlie penguins. Their ice-made home is melting, and while the southernmost populations are thriving, most are quickly plummeting.These penguins need the winter sea ice as a platform for l... |
4 January 2008
02:54 GMT |
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This is the champ diver of the birds' world, not just the largest penguin. A new study, published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology", attempts to decode the secret of why emperor penguins can dive down to 1,850 ft (565 m) for up to 23 minutes (with an average of 6 minutes) with a sole breath: a special hy... |
12 December 2007
03:39 GMT |
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"Surf's Up" is the kind of entertainment concept that is bound to be successful, no matter the environment it reaches. After being a mockumentary film, a PC, playstation 3 and wii game, it has finally reached mobile phones too, as the perfect environment to evolve.It looks like penguins are among the cutest and ... |
23 July 2007
11:51 GMT |
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Most penguins are a little bigger than a duck, with some exceptions, but their prehistoric cousins were much larger and unlike modern ice-loving species, they might have basked in a warm beach on the Peruvian coast over 30 million years ago, as two fossils suggest. One species had a seven-inch (18 cm) beak, was 5 ft ... |
26 June 2007
04:58 GMT |
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Penguins have turned into a symbol of the fight to protect the pristine Antarctica against contamination and overexploitation. But their abilities and ecology have made them a good tool for the scientific research of the effects of the global warming.They can dive hundreds of meters into the dark, icy waters of the S... |
19 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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Inlogic software has recently launched the long-awaited game Ali the Penguin. The game features funny graphics, extended mini games and freely available ring tones as well as wallpapers for more than 350 mobile phone types.Besides the excellent graphics and vast gameplay possibilities, Ali the Penguin brings the uni... |
6 March 2007
03:51 GMT |
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