News tagged with e books
New Kindle Touch is an impressive e-reader
When it comes to reading digital books, tablets are all the rage. But there's a lot to like about simple e-readers, which over the past year have become both a lot cheaper and a lot less clunky.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 09, 2012 |
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3Qs: An Apple for the teacher - and student
Last week Apple announced two new eReader platforms – iBooks and iAuthor – that the electronics giant hopes will modernize learning and “reinvent textbooks.” Northeastern University news ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2012 |
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New library e-catalogs offer expanded selection
(AP) -- Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days
Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an a ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption
Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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New smart e-book system more convenient than paper-based books
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced today that its research team headed by Professor Howon Lee from the IT Convergence Research Institute has developed a technology that will ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Barnes & Noble falls on guidance cut, Nook review
(AP) -- Barnes & Noble is considering options for its quickly growing but expensive Nook e-book reading business, its latest attempt to regain profitability as the publishing industry adapts to the rising ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Kindle Fire software update on the way
Amazon said Monday that a software update to improve the performance of Kindle Fire tablets will be released within two weeks.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era
Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to eventually close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Justice Dept looking into e-book sales practices
(AP) -- The Justice Department is looking into possible anticompetitive practices involving e-book sales.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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EU in antitrust probe of Apple, e-book publishers (Update)
The European Union's antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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'Fahrenheit 451' finally out as an e-book
(AP) -- At age 91, Ray Bradbury is making peace with the future he helped predict.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Penguin reverses course for now on Kindle lending
One of the country's largest publishers, Penguin Group (USA), is temporarily restoring libraries' ability to loan their e-books for Amazon.com's Kindle - but only through the end of the year.
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Consumer's guide to downloadable gifts
Remember when gifts were objects, purchased or crafted and wrapped with a bow, then presented with a flourish?
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Different reading devices, different modes of reading?
A book or a screen – which of these two offers more reading comfort? There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with reading printed texts. This is one of the results of the world's ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2011 |
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E-book
An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook or ebook) is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, often protected with a digital rights management system. E-books are usually read on personal computers or smart phones, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices. Many mobile phones can also be used to read e-books.
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