News tagged with handwritten books
Researcher Uses DNA Testing to Unlock Secrets of Medieval Manuscripts
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of painstakingly handwritten books produced in medieval Europe still exist today, but scholars have long struggled with questions about when and where the majority of these works originated. Now ...
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Google Books to add Creative Commons books
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is now enabling authors and publishers who release their work under Creative Commons licenses to distribute it through Google Books, a free service that allows users to search and read ...
Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
Sharp Releases Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD Pad
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Sharp Corporation will release into the Japanese market a new notebook PC employing an optical sensor LCD for the touchpad. Its new touch-sensing recognition method allows handwritten input and intuitive direct-touch ...
Coolerbooks.com gets 1M books from Google scans
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Interead, a British company that sells the COOL-ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public-domain books to its online bookstore. The texts are available from Google Inc. through its ...
E-books gain a foothold at Frankfurt Book Fair
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- While paper books still outnumber texts that can be read online or on dedicated readers like the Kindle or eBook, use of the electronic versions is growing.
Google willing to share digital books with rivals
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google will let other online companies sell its digital copies of out-of-print books if a class-action settlement with U.S. authors and publishers wins court approval.
HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
Sony's eBooks to work with libraries
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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Maybe now it's an actual competition between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's forlorn "Reader" e-book.
Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.
Google to draw up new privacy policy for books
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google has agreed to draw up a separate privacy policy for its digital library in response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission.
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