News tagged with electronic book
Amazon planning first real-world shop: report
Online retail titan Amazon will open its first real-world shop in just a few months, according to a blog devoted to news about electronic readers such as the popular Kindle.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Amazon selling over one million Kindles a week
Amazon said Thursday that it is selling more than one million Kindles a week and the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is its top-selling item.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 15, 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.
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Dec 09, 2011 |
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Amazon opens Spanish, Italian Kindle stores
Amazon began offering digital books in Spanish and Italian for the Kindle on Thursday and selling Spanish- and Italian-language versions of the electronic book reader.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Amazon may be planning smartphone: Citi analysts
Amazon, which began shipping a tablet computer this week, may be eyeing the smartphone market.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Amazon introduces lending library for Kindles
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it is starting a lending library for Kindle owners, letting them borrow one electronic book per month.
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Nov 03, 2011 |
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Google expands online bookstore to Canada
Google expanded its online bookstore to Canada on Tuesday, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale and millions of others for free.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Digital piracy casts shadow over ebook world
With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates, much as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.
Oct 13, 2011 |
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World's biggest publishers' fair eyes safe future for books
The world's biggest book fair, which opened Tuesday, wants to put paid to fears for the survival of the book in its traditional, bound form in the face of its digital rival's growing popularity.
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Book fair to tackle challenges of digital age storytelling
Authors once just had to deal with a publisher but are now being forced to embrace the digital age and negotiate the rights to their works for TV, films and ebooks.
Oct 09, 2011 |
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Amazon expected to unveil tablet at mystery event
With nearly 30 million iPads sold, Apple is the undisputed tablet computer champion. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, South Korea's Samsung and scores of other companies with devices ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Amazon press invites could herald iPad rival
Amazon.com on Friday sent out enigmatic invitations to a press event, fueling expectations that the online retail titan will release a tablet computer to challenge Apple's iPad.
Sep 23, 2011 |
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US libraries lend digital books to Kindle readers
Thousands of US libraries on Wednesday began lending digital books over the Internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Japan's Sharp to stop sales of Galapagos tablets
Japan's Sharp Corp. said Thursday it will stop production and sales of the original editions of its "Galapagos" tablet computer, just nine months after it was launched.
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Sep 15, 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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