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View ArticleLeaked Barnes & Noble e-Reader is a Powerful Multitouch Hybrid
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View ArticleBarnes & Noble Reader Gets Official, Dubbed "The Nook"
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View ArticleSpam "Books" Threaten to Overrun the Kindle
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View ArticleNew E-Textbooks Will Tattle To Professors About Students' Reading Habits
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View ArticleHow Much Porn Can You Buy For Your Kindle?
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View ArticleUnleashing Synonyms To Catch E-Book Pirates
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View ArticleKindle DX: To Buy or Not To Buy?
Kindle DX Lauren Aaronson Today, Amazon announced a new Kindle e-reader that has a bigger screen -- 9.7 inches diagonally -- and a bigger price tag: 489 smackeroos. So should you fork out $130 more...
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Kindle DX HIDE A new report by the Democratic Leadership Council probably made Jeff Bezos choke on his bagel this morning--the group of leading Democrats is proposing a Kindle for every public school...
View ArticleSony Daily Edition Reader Adds 3G, Aims at Kindle
Sony Reader Daily Edition Dear Kindle: Watch your back. This morning at the New York Public Library, Sony President of Digital Reading Steve Haber announced a new member of the company's e-book reader...
View ArticleAsus's New E-Reader Looks More Like a Real, Live Book
Asus Eee Reader For a lot of people, e-book readers are a long game of "I'll buy it when..." For some, the rest of that sentence is "it has a color screen," and for others it's "it's cheaper." Asus's...
View ArticleLeaked Barnes & Noble e-Reader is a Powerful Multitouch Hybrid
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View ArticleBarnes & Noble Reader Gets Official, Dubbed "The Nook"
Barnes & Noble Nook Barnes & Noble Well, everything we thought we knew about the Barnes & Noble e-reader is true, but there's more, too: Dubbed The Nook, B&N just announced full...
View ArticleKurzweil Blio E-Reader Will Narrate PDFs, Show Illustrations
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View ArticleNeal Stephenson's New Digital Novel Includes Social Networking Features
The Mongoliad An artist's concept of a marauding Mongol, the antagonists in the new online open-source serial "The Mongoliad." Subutai The future of reading might also be the future of writing, if...
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