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How the Grinch Stole the iPhone
Rick Broida on CNet has a review of an interactive e-book for the iPhone—a great example of those rare occasions when interactivity and multimedia for an e-book make sense.The book is How the Grinch Stole Christmas, turned into an app complete with...

6 days ago

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New Sony e-store for books, movies, music and apps is coming, says company—but it ‘is not imminent’
Now that Sony has revealed plans for a new iTune-like store—offering e-books along with music, movies and apps—I...

28 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Sony, Sony Reader, e-book

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Ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman may back off from DRM: Way to increase profits on her Open Road e-books?
Is ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman about to change her mind on Digital Rights Management—and avoid it? Or maybe play...

29 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: DRM, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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Sony Reader Daily Edition: Will it matter to you if it comes out in January instead of December?
Does it matter if the Sony Daily Edition Reader comes out in January rather than December? Will this affect your own plans?...

30 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Sony, Sony Reader, e-book

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Amazon woos lit agents worried about e-books undermining p-books
Issues such as prices and delayed publication of e-books came up in the discussions. Did text to speech, too? See Crain’s...

38 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., e-book

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Quick test drive: Kindle for PC looks promising—but is no match for Mobipocket in flexibility. And how about ePub?
I’ve just test-driven a beta of Kindle for PC software (download here). It’s very promising, but not nearly as usable for...

38 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., e-book

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i-Mobilize announces ‘iRead’ iPhone e-book app
i-Mobilize, an iPhone developer largely focusing on dating and meditation apps, has announced a new e-book app for the iPhone...

39 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., e-book..., e-books

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Seen a Kindle commercial on TV?
I did on Comcast. Yes, Ondigo, the commercial was horrible but, mercifully, rather forgettable. Interesting, isn’t...

39 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, DRM, E-books and all...

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‘Mein Kampf’ e-book briefly appears on Apple Store
More egg for Apple’s face: for 24 hours, a Spanish e-book edition of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf appeared in the Apple...

39 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Apple, Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., censorship

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‘Mein Kampf’ e-book briefly appears on Apple Store
More egg for Apple’s face: for 24 hours, a Spanish e-book edition of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf appeared in the Apple...

39 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Apple, Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., censorship

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Harlequin launches digital-only publishing house: E-books, short stories, other content—and not just romance
Best of luck to the new Carina Press. But why does the home page show a typewriter-looking gizmo to direct people to the...

39 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Harlequin, e-book, e-book...

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GetJar: Almost 57,000 cellphone apps, including the e-book variety
Getjar has nearly 57,000 apps for cellphones—more than any rival other than the iPhone app store. eReader and Wattpad...

39 days ago

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E-books and P: How will publishers adjust to smaller markets for print books?
Doubt that e-books are a disruptive technology? How about this warning from Mike Shatzkin at the Idea Logical Company? This...

39 days ago

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Simplified writing and cellphone novels: Threats to Japanese language?
Is simplified writing—er, typing on computers—a threat to the Japanese language, not just to penmanship alone? Oh,...

40 days ago

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2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device
One Laptop Per Chlld has “scrapped plans unveiled in May 2008 for an e-book-like second-generation XO laptop, instead...

41 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., One Laptop Per..., e-book, e-book...

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Freda program reads ePub, TXT and HTML on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 machines
The new Freda program reads nonDRMed ePub, TXT and HTML, and lets you customize fonts and colors. Check out the details and get...

41 days ago

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E-book hardware bargains for the holidays: Share your finds, whenever you spot ‘em
Tell other TeleRead community members when you spot e-book-related products steeply discounted. Some holiday...

41 days ago

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eSlick Foxit reader gets new firmware with ePub and eReader
eSlick’s Foxit reader will now be able to read at least nonDRMed ePub and eReader (PDB), not just PDF and TXT. I’m not sure...

41 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: DRM, E-books and all..., Foxit Reader, e-book

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Droid smartphone launch: Better for e-booking than the iPhone, especially as more apps show up?
The Motorola Droid smartphone is out now, complete with a keyboard and a 3.7-inch touch screen, which is slightly bigger than...

41 days ago

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Bookless libraries?
When does a library cease to be a library?This was the central point of a debate about the fate of educational...

42 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Library links, Uncategorized or..., e-book

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Sungale Cyberus: E-book reader and media player with 7” color LCD
As Engadget puts it, the Sungale Cyberus tries to be both an e-book reader and a personal media player. The article is too...

42 days ago

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$89 e-reader can display zillions of books from Google, Feedbooks, Manybooks and Gutenberg—aided by Calibre
Just in case you haven’t noticed, eBookwise is selling the model 1150 for just $89.95 and shipping (as little as $10 in the...

44 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: DRM, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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‘Darn it, Santa, I want to watch my parents’ budget!’ A few words on teens, e-books and affordable prices and all that
Darn It, Santa, I said Leave a BOOK Under the Tree, NOT an E-Ebook is the catchy headline in Richard Curtis’s E-Reads...

44 days ago

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You can fight for your country but not buy an e-book?
That is the situation one soldier finds himself in, according to this MobileRead thread. A US soldier stationed in Iraq has...

44 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., Sony, e-book

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Fisticuff at the Washington Post (e-book angle included)
You read that right. An elderly, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor slugged a feature writer in the face, right in the Washington...

45 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., The Solomon..., blogs, e-book

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Sony updates eBook Library software for PRS-300, PRS-505, PRS-600, Reader Touch Edition and Pocket Edition
Sony has updated eBook Library software to version 3.0.01 to provide for Windows 7 support for e-book management and transfer...

45 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Sony, Sony Reader, e-book

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When Kindle e-reading apps show up on better handheld displays, will the iPhone seem quite so hot?
The iPhone/iPod Touch have had the advantage of being the sole handheld devices with an e-reader that could access...

46 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Kindle for...

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Kindle/Nook ‘smackdown’ from Jim Fallows of the Atlantic
Looking for an “exhaustive” Kindle/Nook comparison? Jim Fallows of The Atlantic served up some thoughts last week. He...

47 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Nook

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Creative multimedia Kindle rival and Motorola Droid smartphone—plus Nook may go global next year
What if a Kindle rival could display videos and do Facebook and Twitter while also offering a touch screen, text to speech, an...

47 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., e-book

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Apple focused on videos—rather than books—for rumored tablet?
That’s the latest scuttlebutt. If the widely reported rumors are true; at least they’d jibe with Steve Jobs’ sttement...

48 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Apple, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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LG announces solar-powered e-book reader
We have mentioned solar-powered e-book prototypes in the past, but now one is finally reaching the production stage. LG has...

67 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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FTC won’t protect us from DRM fraud—but wants to crank down on mom-and-pop book reviewers
You don’t own your books for real when you buy ‘em with DRM, as Amazon’s 1984 recall showed us. When will the Federal...

71 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, DRM, E-books and all...

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ePub-related briefings at Frankfurt Book Fair—including info on new devices from iRex, ECO and Cybook
IDPF news release, slightly edited… Booksellers, publishers, and technologists attending the Frankfurt Book Fair will be...

71 days ago

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Power of ‘free’: Audio freebie whets prof’s interest in my novel—and meanwhile Google giveaways are helping pubs
While so many people fixate on e-book piracy, I’m more excited about something else—writers and publishers making money...

75 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Google, Google Book..., e-book

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Is Sony’s eBook Library suite a turkey? Brad Vertrees thinks so
The e-book reader within the Sony eBook Library suite is vastly underrated. But now I’m curious about a not-so-delightful...

75 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Calibre, E-books and all..., Sony, Sony Reader

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Three kinds of e-book illegals: Felix Torres’ tutorial for NYT columnist Randall Stross and publishers
Editor’s note: Who’s downloading e-books illegally, and how much are publishers really losing? Is every illegal download in...

75 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: DRM, E-books and all..., New York..., e-book

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New York Times columnist fears ‘napsterization’ of e-books
The New York Times has yet another article about the “napsterization” of e-books. Shock, horror. Alarums and...

75 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., Free e-books, Free ebooks

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Sony PRS-500 still on-track to get ePub upgrade by the end of the year
Good news, PRS-500 owners. Sony’s ePub upgrade will happen by the end of the year, if all goes as planned—so you can...

76 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Sony, Sony Reader, e-book

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Tablets for easy typing, not just e-books? New Apple interface might help
Tablet are one of the best ways to enjoy traditional books in E format. Alas, however, you can’t type on a tablet easily....

77 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Apple, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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EZ Reader Pocket Pro now shipping from New Egg: $250
The five-inch Astak EZ Reader Pocket Pro is now shipping from New Egg. Price on the New Egg site is about $250, which just...

77 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Astak, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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The Trapper Kindle: For artsy literary sophisticates who love to flaunt their good taste
How can you judge someone by their book cover if there is no book cover? Problem solved: the Trapper Kindle! (Reproduced...

78 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., e-book

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Jane Friedman to be interviewed on her new ebook venture
Jane Friedman, former CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, will be interviewed at a free virtual conference called...

78 days ago

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Kindle’s U.K. launch date: As hard to predict as the Apple tablet, but maybe it’ll happen this time
When will the Kindle hit the U.K.? Nate at MR correctly notes how hard it’s been to predict. That’s in league with...

79 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Apple, E-books and all...

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Could ‘social media tablets’ work for interactive e-books, not just Facebook and Twitter?
The Kindle’s tiny chiclet-style keyboard takes up space—but isn’t terrific for fast typing. But what if Amazon...

80 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Kindle DX

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Kids’ e-book subscription plan from Disney
Could Disney get kids excited about books by offering a subscription plan?DisneyDigitalBooks.com will offer 500 e-books for...

80 days ago

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‘Ten reasons why tablets will succeed’: Multiuse tabs to be a major way to read e-books?
The Tablet PC idea—that’s an HP Compaq incarnation to the left—was a big flop for Bill Gates and Microsoft. ...

81 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Kindle DX

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‘Arguing with Idiots’: If book chains want to save paper books from the Kindle, why are they so stupid about local needs?
Jobs might be lost if I’m not careful. So I won’t even say which book chain it was—just that this little chat...

81 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Kindle DX

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Nintendo DS app dslibris adds ePub support
Found via twitter from Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks: the Nintendo DS homebrew e-book reader dslibris has added ePub-reading...

82 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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