News tagged with book reading
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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(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
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(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
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(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.
Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(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
May 13, 2008 |
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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
Mar 26, 2009 |
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In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of…"
No evidence for decline in reading
Jul 09, 2007 |
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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.
Plenty of Kindle 2 extras in marketplace
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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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
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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(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'
Nov 09, 2009 |
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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
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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(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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