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Want to read Harry Potter on your iPad? There's no app for that.

Jul 26, 2011
Apple's trying to force all online booksellers, magazine publishers and movie rental sites to only sell stuff for iPhones and iPads through the App...

Amazon seeks to be a player in streaming entertainment

Jul 21, 2011
Customers who are members of Amazon Prime, the premium Amazon.com service that also sounds like a new sort of Transformer, are going to be able to...

Kindles to hover over closed Borders locations while laughing maniacally

Jul 19, 2011
Borders died yesterday Some 400 stores closing, 11,000 employees out of work. Last minute auction didn't really happen and so off it goes to...

Kindle textbook rental

Jul 18, 2011
Amazon has just announced a new program for renting out textbooks on Kindles, and it's likely to save students a lot of money. So if you need a...

Amazon to launch tablet by October

Jul 14, 2011
The Wall Street Journal is the latest to write up the long kicked around rumor of Amazon being about to launch a tablet computer. The Journal says...

Amazon wants to take tax gripe to California voters

Jul 12, 2011
Amazon.com has filed paperwork to put a referendum on the ballot in California. It would be about overturning a recent law requiring Californians...

Amazon tries to make cloud service more appealing

Jul 7, 2011
Amazon is now offering unlimited music storage on its cloud for paying customers. So when you buy any level of storage for your files, you can put...

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Amazon tablet to be here in August

Jun 22, 2011
Not here like St Paul, here like in the public. Maybe in St Paul. Amazon has been rumored to be working on a tablet computer for a while now and...

Spammers Ruin Everything, chapter 3,876,924: e-books

Jun 17, 2011
Amazon.com's Kindle e-book store lets you sell your own self-published books. That's very nice for authors who can't land a book deal or just want...

Nook-Kindle war escalates

May 25, 2011
Yesterday, Barnes & Noble debuted a new version of the Nook e-reader. It weighs less than a paperback book and has a battery that will last two...