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Saturday, December 12, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (2 articles)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
December 12, 2009 Compiled: 4:13 AM

TECHNOLOGY / PERSONAL TECH

Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions from Amazon’s Kindle comes fraught with disappointing footnotes.

BUSINESS

New e-book readers, in addition to displaying standard text, offer liquid-crystal displays to better show graphics and other items found in color in textbooks.

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Saturday, December 05, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
December 5, 2009 Compiled: 4:13 AM

TECHNOLOGY / PERSONAL TECH

If you have a smartphone and you’re not ready to spend $200 on an e-reader, try starting with an app.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
November 14, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / PERSONAL TECH

Data rescue services and file rescue software offer hope for retrieving photographs from damaged camera memory cards.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (2 articles)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
October 24, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY

The Nook will cost $259, matching Amazon.com’s most recent price cut for its new edition of the Kindle.

BUSINESS / GLOBAL BUSINESS

French publishers and news providers are cooking up original ways to fight the perceived threat of cultural domination by U.S. giants like Google and Amazon.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
October 17, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

BOOKS

Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
October 10, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

BUSINESS

As the hardware for electronic books moves closer to the mainstream, publishers wonder whether their industry can be spared the potential problems of piracy.

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
September 5, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / COMPANIES

The move comes after Amazon erased unlicensed versions of two George Orwell novels from its customers’ Kindle reading devices.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
August 22, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / INTERNET

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.

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Saturday, August 08, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
August 8, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / PERSONAL TECH

Barnes & Noble’s e-book store has a lot of promise, but is saddled with filler, missing some top books and has some awkward details.

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
July 25, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / INTERNET

The retailer said users will have access to up to a million titles within the next year.

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
June 6, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / INTERNET

Google plans to help publishers sell digital versions of new books direct to consumers, for use on phones or e-book readers.

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
May 23, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

TECHNOLOGY / START-UPS

In the Scribd store, authors and publishers will be able to sell their work and encode documents to prevent piracy.

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

My Alerts: Ebooks and Google (1 article)

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Alert Name: Ebooks and Google
May 9, 2009 Compiled: 4:12 AM

BUSINESS / MEDIA & ADVERTISING

Amazon says it is fixing the Kindle’s computerized-voice feature, which had trouble with “Barack Obama.”

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