News tagged with printed books
Amazon to start Japan ebook business: reports
US online giant Amazon will start a Japanese-language ebook business as early as this year, the Nikkei business daily and Jiji press said Thursday.
Oct 20, 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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Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Amazon selling more Kindle books than print books
Online retail giant Amazon said Thursday that sales of digital books for the Kindle electronic reader have surpassed sales of print books.
May 19, 2011 |
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Japan's NTT Docomo, Dai Nippon launch e-book service
Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo and publisher Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) Tuesday announced a joint e-book service to take advantage of a wave of launches of tablet computers and e-readers.
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Sony eyes December launch of e-readers in Japan
Sony, battling Amazon and Apple in the electronic book reader race, said on Thursday it would launch its latest devices in Japan in December along with a dedicated virtual library.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Amazon says e-book sales of best-sellers double print
Amazon customers are buying Kindle digital versions of the top 10 best-selling books more than twice as often as print copies, the online retail giant said Monday.
Oct 25, 2010 |
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NYC judge expresses some doubts about Google deal
(AP) -- A judge Thursday questioned whether Google and lawyers for authors and publishers went too far when they struck a deal that would let the gigantic search engine make money presiding over the world's largest digital ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Warner CEO sees e-book 'fracas' as helping music
(AP) -- The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Esquire looks to energize print with 3-D animation
(AP) -- Hold Esquire's December issue in front of a webcam, and an on-screen image of the magazine pops to life, letters flying off the cover. Shift and tilt the magazine, and the animation on the screen moves accordingly.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Book scanning prompts review of EU copyright laws
(AP) -- The European Commission said Monday it may revise copyright law to make it easier for companies like Google Inc. to scan printed books and distribute digital copies over the Internet.
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Fury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project
"Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet search service, defended plans to turn millions of books into ...
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Judge sets deadline for amended Google book deal
(AP) -- A federal judge set a Nov. 9 deadline Wednesday for submitting a revised agreement in the battle over Google Inc.'s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal
(AP) -- The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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