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e-readers stories: 23 news summaries

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 Amazon App Allows 
 Kindle Books on PCs 

Free download will let anyone buy and download e-books

Oct 22, 09 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon will introduce a free software app next month that will allow Kindle users to read their e-books on their PCs. What's more, the app works for non-Kindle owners: Anyone with an Amazon account will be able to buy the books and download them to their Window-based computers, notes CNET.... More »

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Kindle • personal computers • Amazon • publishing industry • e-readers • books • electronic readers • Kindle on PC

Barnes & Noble Unveils 'Nook' E-Reader

Unlike Kindle, users can loan books to others for 2 weeks

Oct 20, 09 6:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble unveiled its new e-reader today: the Nook. Like the Kindle, it's a wireless device that allows for instant downloads of purchases. Some details, via CNET, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, and PC World.
  • It costs $259, same as the Kindle, and will be
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electronic books • Kindle • Barnes & Noble • e-readers • women's issues • Nook


 Libraries Embrace 
 E-Book Lending 

Compatibility issues and reticent publishing industry slow progress

Oct 15, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than 1 million e-books books were checked out of libraries this year—25% more than all of last year—as libraries offer more and more digital lending. Borrowers can check the book out online—obviating the trip to the library—and can read them on a computer or Sony... More »

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iPhone • digital downloads • Kindle • ebooks • publishing industry • library • public library • e-readers • Sony Reader

PRODUCT PEEK

 B&N E-Reader 
 Sports 2 Screens: 
 E-Ink and LCD 

Miracle device rumored to have social networking and go for less than Kindle

Oct 14, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barnes & Noble’s entry into the e-reader market, supposed to be under wraps until next week, has been ferreted out, and it’s got something no one else has. Rumors predicted color e-ink—not true—but the device has “got something almost better,” Kit Eaton writes: two... More »

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iPhone • book • LCD • E Ink • Kindle • Barnes & Noble • ebooks • touchscreen • e-readers

 Amazon Cuts Kindle Price, 
 Offers Worldwide Wireless 

E-reader now just $259, but cheaper Sony device is making inroads

Oct 7, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon slashed the price of its Kindle e-reader by $40 today and introduced a new edition of the device that will enable wireless downloads in 100 countries. The move brings the price of a Kindle to $259, which is still $60 more expensive than Sony's competitor. Amazon will also finally... More »

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Sony • electronic books • Kindle • Amazon • e-readers • Sony Reader

Dan Brown's Next Could Spark 'E-Book Revolution'

Big-selling author could lift e-reader sales

Aug 17, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Brown’s next book has a 6.5 million-copy print run—one of the biggest ever—but the Lost Symbol could mark a new chapter in the digital world, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Da Vinci Code author’s publisher says an e-book version of the novel will be... More »

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Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • ebooks • e-readers • The Lost Symbol

Sony Challenges Kindle With
$199 E-Reader

Company angles for bigger share of fast-growing market

Aug 5, 09 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sony plans to fire up competition in the E-reader market with a pair of affordable releases next month, Bloomberg reports. The Sony Reader Pocket Edition, with a 5-inch screen, will be priced at $199. A touch-screen version will sell for $299. Amazon dropped the price of its Kindles to $299... More »

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Sony • consumer electronics • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers • Sony Reader

(Newser) - Customers who had their paid-for copies of 1984 and Animal Farm yanked from their Kindles over a copyright issue are taking Amazon to court, InformationWeek reports. The company has apologized for its action and vowed not to repeat it, but the plaintiffs, who include a high school student whose homework... More »

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copyright • lawsuit • George Orwell • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers

opinion

 Why the Kindle Stinks 


Jul 31, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicholson Baker wanted to like the Kindle, honest. But when he unwrapped it and began to see what all the fuss was about, he "tussled with a sense of anti-climax," the prolific author writes in the New Yorker. Things never improved. He slams the e-reader for having a... More »

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Apple • iPod Touch • book • electronic books • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks • iPods • e-readers • Kindle DX • Nicholson Baker

Amazon Goes Orwellian
on Kindle

Company deletes customers' downloads of 1984, Animal Farm

Jul 18, 09 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon turned into Big Brother this week after mistakenly selling pirated copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm to Kindle users, Ars Technica reports. The company, without warning, remotely deleted the books from customers' devices after discovering the publisher didn't have the rights to sell them. Customers who lost... More »

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copyright • George Orwell • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers

(Newser) - Amazon has lopped $60 off the price of its Kindle 2 ebook reader in a move that looks like an effort to gain iPod-like dominance in an increasingly crowded market, Melissa Perenson writes in PC World. The Kindle is way ahead of the competition, but Sony's ereaders are gaining traction,... More »

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consumer electronics • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers

TECH REVIEW

 Kindle Rival E-Cooler Not Ready for Prime Time

1.0 version shows plenty of promise, but check the fine print

May 29, 09 12:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - British company Interead's lighter, cheaper Kindle rival is intriguing but not ready for the big time yet, David Pogue writes in the New York Times. One huge plus is that books bought on Cool-er can be resold or shared, Pogue writes, but the device went from idea to finished product... More »

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Kindle • ebooks • e-readers • Cool-er

 Authors Want 
 Boom Lowered 
 on Book Pirates 

Book piracy balloons with growth of e-readers

May 12, 09 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A surge in book piracy has followed hot on the heels of the growth in ebooks, the New York Times reports. Publishers trying to stamp out unauthorized editions online say the ease with which books can now be copied online make their efforts little more than a game of "... More »

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publishing • file sharing • author • book • copyright infringement • ebooks • e-readers • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - The Kindle DX offers crisper resolution than its smaller cousin, but it’s still not big enough to display a full newspaper page, and the price may hold some buyers back, Damon Darlin writes in the New York Times. “You never see the big picture—a full page—... More »

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entertainment • consumer electronics • Kindle • Amazon • newspaper industry • e-readers • textbook • Kindle DX

(Newser) - Amazon is set to introduce a tabloid-sized version of the Kindle tailored to display newspapers—just one of many e-readers in the pipe that just might toss a life-preserver to print journalism, the New York Times reports. In fact, Engadget expects the new Kindle to debut Wednesday at a... More »

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technology • media • E Ink • Kindle • News Corp • Amazon • newspaper industry • Hearst • e-readers • Plastic Logic

 Kindle Devotees Rip 
 Rising E-Book Prices 

Digital books should cost $10 or less, they say

Apr 7, 09 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - A small but vocal group of Kindle owners has banded together to protest upward-creeping e-book prices, Wired reports. Around 250 disgruntled Kindle devotees have tagged more than 7,200 titles on Amazon priced higher than $10—the most they argue an e-book should cost. "On material items, prices can... More »

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protests • consumer prices • boycott • Kindle • Amazon.com • e-readers

Sony Reader Gets 500K
Free Books From Google

Device's library now bigger than Kindle's

Mar 19, 09 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google is making half a million books available for free on the Sony Reader, propelling it past Amazon’s Kindle as the e-book device with the most tomes, at 600,000, the AP reports. The availability of the public-domain books, all published before 1923, marks the first time Google has... More »

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Google • book • electronic books • Kindle • e-readers • Sony Reader

(Newser) - Amazon has bowed to pressure from the Authors Guild and will allow authors and publishers to disable the controversial text-to-speech feature on its Kindle e-reader, the Los Angeles Times reports. Authors contend that the function essentially turns the e-book into an audio book, a contract violation. “They created... More »

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Kindle • copyright infringement • audio books • Amazon.com • ebooks • Authors Guild • e-readers

Hearst to Roll Out E-Reader for Newspapers, Magazines

Publishing giant aims to save periodicals with new device

Feb 27, 09 6:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Hearst Corporation aims to do for periodicals what the Kindle's doing for books with a new electronic reader, CNN reports. The company—which publishes an array of magazines and newspapers, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle—hopes the device will help cushion revenues in light of sinking ad... More »

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newspaper • magazine • publishing • consumer electronics • Kindle • magazine publishing • Hearst • e-readers

PRODUCT REVIEW

 Kindle 2 Worth It 
 for 'Serious Book Readers' 


Feb 26, 09 2:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Amazon’s new Kindle e-reader offers vast improvement over the previous model, writes Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal, and “is finally a pleasure to use.” Faster page-flipping, sleeker design, tons more memory, and a digital audio feature are just some of the advances. But hardware is... More »

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Walt Mossberg • battery • data storage • Kindle • Amazon.com • ebooks • e-readers • improvement • digital content

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