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Kindle DX: To Buy or Not To Buy?

Kindle DXLauren AaronsonThe newest Kindle isn't right for everyone Today, Amazon announced a new Kindle e-reader that has a bigger screen -- 9.7 inches diagonally -- and a bigger price tag: 489...

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One Kindle Per Child?

Kindle DXHIDEA Democratic think tank proposes replacing every K-12 student in America's traditional textbooks with Amazon's e-book readerA new report by the Democratic Leadership Council probably made...

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Sony Daily Edition Reader Adds 3G, Aims at Kindle

Sony Reader Daily EditionDear 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...

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Asus's New E-Reader Looks More Like a Real, Live Book

Asus Eee ReaderThe company's forthcoming reader sports a dual-screen, two-page layout and (yes) color For a lot of people, e-book readers are a long game of "I'll buy it when..." For some, the rest of...

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Leaked Barnes & Noble e-Reader is a Powerful Multitouch Hybrid

Barnes & Noble e-ReaderTake a Kindle, and put a multitouch screen where the keyboard and navigation buttons go, and you've got the Barnes & Noble e-reader. We're still a week away from Barnes...

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Barnes & Noble Reader Gets Official, Dubbed "The Nook"

Barnes & Noble NookBarnes & NobleWell, 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 details...

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Kurzweil Blio E-Reader Will Narrate PDFs, Show Illustrations

Blio E-Readervia Singularity HubBecause so much of Ray Kurzweil's publicity these days revolves around the Singularity, it's easy to forget he's also a hell of an inventor. And his newest venture, an...

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Neal 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."SubutaiThe future of reading might also be the future of writing, if author...

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Spam "Books" Threaten to Overrun the Kindle

Niche Content Kitvia Alexis MadrigalThousands of spam pseudobooks are reportedly clogging Amazon's Kindle store, as spammers have begun buying digital content on the cheap and repackaging it into...

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New E-Textbooks Will Tattle To Professors About Students' Reading Habits

Kindle PaperwhiteDan BracagliaCourseSmart plans to track how students read. It'll even determine their "engagement" in reading. Boy we're glad we aren't in school any more. Digital textbooks seem like...

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How Much Porn Can You Buy For Your Kindle?

Erotic E-booksDreamstimeQuite a lot, apparently. But do you really want to look at nudie pics on a 6-inch, electrophoretic, black-and-white screen? The porn industry has always been on the forefront of...

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Unleashing Synonyms To Catch E-Book Pirates

Watch That GrammarCloseup of an e-book on a reader device by NotFromUtrecht on Wikimedia CommonsNew software automatically changes words and grammar in e-books. Sounds like a scenario that could have...

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Kindle 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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One Kindle Per Child?

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...

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Sony 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...

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Asus'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...

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Leaked Barnes & Noble e-Reader is a Powerful Multitouch Hybrid

Barnes & Noble e-Reader We're still a week away from Barnes & Noble's big e-reader announcement, but we've know they've had something cooking for a while now. And today, our pals at Gizmodo...

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Barnes & 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...

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Kurzweil Blio E-Reader Will Narrate PDFs, Show Illustrations

Blio E-Reader via Singularity HubBecause so much of Ray Kurzweil's publicity these days revolves around the Singularity, it's easy to forget he's also a hell of an inventor. And his newest venture, an...

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Neal 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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