iPad launch in Sydney
About 120 people queued outside Apple's CBD store in Sydney to be among the first in Australia to own an Apple iPad.
e-readers - News, Features, and Slideshows
e-readers in pictures
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Apple's iPad vs. e-readers
Apple's iPad is a multi-function device that focuses on multimedia and some productivity apps, but also functions as an e-reader with a new iBook store of EPub format books.
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2010: Year of the E-reader
When Amazon released its first-generation Kindle, the company was light years ahead of the market, with virtually no competition for digital readers’ eyeballs. In 2010, though, the e-reader universe is not only set to explode, but it’s also set to fragment. What defines an e-reader? Is it only a device with an electronic paper-like display? Is it a device (tablet or otherwise) that has an LCD screen? Or does software turn any device into an e-Reader?
News about e-readers
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Rakuten bolsters e-books by gobbling up distributor OverDrive
Rakuten is trying to inject some black ink into its struggling e-book business with the acquisition of OverDrive Holdings, one of the largest providers of e-books for rent to libraries and schools.
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Sales of Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader plunge during holiday shopping season
The holiday shopping season wasn't merry for Barnes & Noble's Nook division, which experienced plummeting sales of the Nook e-reader as well as content and accessories for the device.
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Samsung builds custom Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet with Barnes & Noble
Samsung is moving deeper into e-book and multimedia sales with Barnes & Noble, with which it jointly built a custom Nook tablet that's available now for US$179.
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After exiting PCs, Sony pulls the plug on e-readers
Sony is stopping e-reader production following the transfer of its e-book business outside Japan to Canada's Kobo.
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Amazon's Kindle Unlimited offers 600,000 e-books for $10 a month
Even the most voracious readers will take a few months to get the most out of Amazon.com's latest offer: access to 600,000 e-books and 2,000 audiobooks for a monthly fee of US$9.99. What publishers and authors will get out of it remains to be seen.
Tutorials about e-readers
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Copy Kindle notes and bookmarks to your PC
If you're a Kindle owner, you've probably discovered the device's enviable ability to bookmark pages, highlight passages, and add notes (a.k.a. annotations).
Features about e-readers
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Microsoft throws away $315 million on failed Nook deal
Microsoft took a big loss on its 2012 investment in Barnes & Noble, getting less than half of its original upfront $300 million back when the two firms parted ways today.
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Five reasons Amazon e-books are outselling hardcovers
Are you still holding out to see what happens with this whole ebooks "fad" before deciding whether to embrace it for your business? Well, the times they are a changin' and there are a variety of reasons that ebooks are outpacing printed books.
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Why e-Readers Are a Worthy Business Investment
A Silicon Valley product development consulting firm called the Nielsen Norman Group (not to be confused with the Nielsen ratings company) published a study last week comparing reading performance with a book to reading with an e-reader. The results--which are suspect because there were only 24 people in the test group--find that users of the Kindle 2 and iPad read 10.7 percent and 6.2 percent slower, respectively, than on paper or with books.
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Color E-readers a hit at book fair, to be sold like handsets
Taiwanese e-reader makers jockeyed to show off new technologies at the Taipei International Book Exhibition over the weekend and said the emerging model for the devices is to sell them as part of a content bundle.
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Asus 'Eee Reader' to join e-reader fray, says report
Computer maker Asus may be getting ready to launch an e-reader that would mimic the traditional book, be in full color and come loaded with a variety of innovative features.