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Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

January 28, 2011
Amazon Launches Kindle Singles for a Five Spot (or Less)

Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” sounds like an online meeting place for like-minded romantics to hook up and talk about their favorite books, but it’s not a Match.com clone. So what is it? Amazon describes it as a new kind of “well researched, well argued, a…

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Amazon Hands Over Keys to Kindle Bookstore to Everyone

December 8, 2010
Amazon Hands Over Keys to Kindle Bookstore to Everyone

Effectively immediately, any webmaster can open a Kindle Bookstore and integrate it into their website, Amazon announced on Tuesday.  Amazon says it takes just a few seconds to embed the Kindle for the Web widget into a website, and once in place …

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Google eBookstore Launches with 3 Million Titles

December 7, 2010

Google’s ebook store has finally stepped out of the realm of rumors and entered the real world. Matter-of-factly called the Google eBookstore, it is well stocked and supports a wide variety of devices, including PCs, smartphones, tablets and e-read…

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Barnes & Noble Pushes Out Nook Firmware Update v1.5

November 23, 2010
Barnes & Noble Pushes Out Nook Firmware Update v1.5

There’s a new firmware version available for the Nook, version 1.5, and according to Barnes and Noble this is the largest update ever to the company’s eBook reader platform. New features include:

Sync current reading position across devices
Customizab…

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Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

November 19, 2010
Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

Starting today, you can now gift Kindle books to anyone with an email address, regardless if they own a Kindle or not, Amazon announced. And while it may seem cruel to gift your Kindle-less nephew an eBook, you can remind him that Kindle Books can be…

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Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

November 19, 2010
Amazon: No Kindle? No Problem, You Can Still Gift Kindle Books

Starting today, you can now gift Kindle books to anyone with an email address, regardless if they own a Kindle or not, Amazon announced. And while it may seem cruel to gift your Kindle-less nephew an eBook, you can remind him that Kindle Books can be…

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Google Dumbs Down Web Concepts in Online Book

November 19, 2010
Google Dumbs Down Web Concepts in Online Book

Maximum PC readers hardly need a primer on what browser cookies are, or what extensions and plug-ins do. At the same time, most of us know someone who could benefit from a plain English guide covering Web apps, HTML5, and a host of other topics, and th…

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Amazon Bumps Up Kindle Royalty Rate to Publishers

November 10, 2010
Amazon Bumps Up Kindle Royalty Rate to Publishers

Amazon is forking over a larger slice of the Kindle pie to some publishers, the online e-tailer announced this week. Starting December 1, 2010, magazine and newspaper publishers will receive a 70 percent chunk of the retail price for each item sold.
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