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Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google (AP)

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.





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Verizon Wireless to support e-book reader

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon will be providing wireless book downloads for an electronic reading device, joining AT&T and Sprint in supporting electronic books.


Amazon.com buys Stanza e-book app maker Lexcycle

Technology / Business

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Kindle e-book retailer Amazon.com Inc. has purchased Lexcycle, a year-old company that makes the iPhone e-book application Stanza, in a move that ratchets up Amazon's presence in the electronic book market.


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Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Sony plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but fast-growing ...


Children better prepared for school if their parents read aloud to them

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published online ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.


Probing Question: What do children need to be successful readers?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of…"


No evidence for decline in reading

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 09, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A three-year investigation by a team at The University of Manchester (UK) has shown that contrary to popular expectation, Brits spent more time reading in recent times than they did in the 1970s.


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Plenty of Kindle 2 extras in marketplace

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To protect your $359 investment in Amazon's Kindle 2, I suggest buying a cover. The first Kindle shipped with one; the new version does not.


Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less (AP)

Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device.


Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many people have tried to read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," whose publication celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but gave up.


New e-book reader to use AT&T network

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, another e-book reader is set to get a wireless connection from a cellular carrier, letting it access books anywhere there's a signal.



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