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02.04.10Amazon buys touchscreen company, merges it with Kindle divisionIt's probably safe to assume there will be a touchscreen Kindle some day, but it's been hard to make any educated guess as to when. Adding touchscreen capability is a matter of finding technology that's affordable, that can work with the current screen/display technology, and that isn't locked down by a competitor via patents. Amazon has possibly found a way to meet all three requirements with its acquisition of Touchco, a startup that began as a project at New York University. Nick Bilton at the New York Times wrote a feature on Touchco in January, before anyone knew about Amazon's acquisition. ...
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11.09.09Don’t believe the hype about lending ebooks on the Barnes & Noble nookIf you've read reviews about the nook, the new Kindle competitor from Barnes & Noble, you may have heard that you can lend ebooks to friends. But don't get suckered in by this claim. Barnes & Noble is conveniently leaving out some crucial information about how the process works, and it turns out the "loan your book" feature is a lot less useful than most bloggers and journalists are making it sound. So how does the lending feature work? Barnes & Noble doesn't provide a lot of detail on it--the Nook promo page on barnesandnoble.com simply says the device "lets you ...
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10.20.08Report from Frankfurter Book Fair on the state of e-readersIt looks like publishers have finally accepted the idea of e-readers being a legitimate part of the book market, judging by their comments at this year's Frankfurter Book Fair, according to Reuters: Penguin publishers Chief Executive John Makinson told Reuters: "They have become mainstream in the sense that they are a genuine consumer product for which there is real appetite, so this is not the province of geeks any longer." Makinson said Penguin was now publishing all new titles both as printed books and e-books and was digitalizing its backlist. Continue Reading...
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