Publishing in Internet age: OpenSky puts writers face-to-face with buyers
About a year ago, Mary Ann Naples had a holy-cow moment. If she'd been a cartoon character, she would have smacked her forehead until stars came out.
Internet
Aug 4, 2010
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News tagged with digital books
Amazon says Kindle sales leapfrog hardback sales
Online retail giant Amazon said Monday that sales of electronic books for the Kindle have overtaken hardcover book sales.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 19, 2010
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Google finances projects to test digital library
(AP) -- Google is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test the academic value of its rapidly growing online library.
Internet
Jul 14, 2010
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Amazon, Penguin reach agreement on e-book prices
Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday it had reached agreement with publisher Penguin on pricing of electronic books for the Kindle e-reader.
Business
May 26, 2010
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Google digital library faces outcry at NYC hearing
(AP) -- Google's effort to create the world's largest library by scanning millions of books for use on the Internet faces a courtroom fight as authors, foreign governments, corporate rivals and even the U.S. Department of ...
Internet
Feb 18, 2010
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Apple's own approach to iPad e-books could confuse
(AP) -- Even as Apple's iPad will likely energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move e-books between different electronic ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 31, 2010
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Plastic Logic aims QUE e-reader at business crowd
Plastic Logic on Thursday unveiled a long-anticipated QUE electronic reader aimed at giving business travelers a "paperless briefcase."
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 7, 2010
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Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books
(AP) -- A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary ...
Internet
Dec 18, 2009
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Taiwan to invest 65 million dollars in e-book industry
Taiwan plans to invest more than 65 million US dollars in its competitive electronic-book sector over the next five years, the economic ministry's Industrial Development Bureau said.
Business
Dec 2, 2009
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Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs
Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.
Software
Nov 10, 2009
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