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Amazon fights to keep Kindle on top of e-book crowd
Oct 26, 2009 |
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The threat of growing competition in the e-reader market does not seem to have cooled demand for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, but the online retailer will likely face its toughest test in the coming holiday season.
Google removes European titles from digital books deal
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google will remove all books still on sale in Europe from a US online market offering millions of titles that are out of print in the United States, the company said Monday.
Book industry meets over uncertain future
May 30, 2009 |
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Publishers, booksellers and authors are holding a major annual convention in New York this week as the industry reels from a global recession and readers migrate to digital formats.
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B&N Nook sells out, too late for holiday orders
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas.
Wal-Mart and Amazon.com trade price cuts on books
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An online book special offered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning into a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com.
New Barnes & Noble multi-format e-books dog Amazon
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. on Monday stepped up its fight in the small but highly competitive market for electronic books with the launch of a new e-bookstore offering titles to be read on a variety of devices.
Sales method pays off for materials scientists
Jul 20, 2006 |
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The same computer methods used by online sales sites to suggest books to customers can help predict the crystal structures of materials, MIT researchers have found.
The sky is the limit for cloud computing
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The prospects for "cloud computing" now seem a little less ... cloudy. Once a term confined to the personal-speak of high-minded tech geeks and derided by critics as a bogus marketing ploy, cloud computing today is arguably ...
Probing Question: How can you spot a forgery?
Feb 01, 2007 |
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History is checkered with stories of fakes -- and people duped into believing they were the real thing.
Networking: Picking the next Dickens
May 15, 2006 |
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Charles Dickens serialized his novels -- "Oliver Twist, David Copperfield," amongst others -- in weekly newspapers and monthly magazines before they were published as books. Today, would-be novelists are publishing their ...
States create voluntary online tax system
Jul 19, 2005 |
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Beginning Oct. 1, at least 18 states will collect taxes from online sales voluntarily, offering a year of amnesty to companies that have not reported on online transactions in the past.
Even in the Digital Age, building a great gadget doesn't guarantee success
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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Publish a book on paper, says a sheepish Beth Collins, and "I'm hesitant to read it." But send it through the ether to her feather-light Kindle 2, Amazon's whiz-bang electronic reading machine, and she's eager ...
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