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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...

Hump cleared: Amazon selling more e-books than book books

May 19, 2011
Bits have defeated atoms. Trees high five each other. Electronic books are now outselling regular books at Amazon.com. As of April, says the compa...

Kindle books coming to your local library

Apr 20, 2011
Amazon just announced a new program to facilitate the "lending" of Kindle books through 11,000 libraries. No word yet on how long you'll be able to...

Amazon offers cheaper ad-supported Kindle

Apr 12, 2011
The new model will cost $114, that's 25 bucks off the current price. It goes on sale May 3rd. The ads will appear as screen savers and as small ba...

Lendle goes back up

Mar 23, 2011
Not sure what's going on with Amazon and Lendle at this point. No one's talking. But the Kindle book lending site called Lendle (get it?) is back...

Amazon shuts down Lendle

Mar 22, 2011
Lendle is - was? - a site that let you lend out your Kindle books to other people. You know, much as you would be able to do with other books that...

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AT&T will sell Kindles

Feb 28, 2011
Starting March 6th, you can get a Kindle from an AT&T store. AT&T announced today it will sell the Amazon Kindle 3G - you can connect over...

Apple's new subscription policy is making enemies

Feb 16, 2011
Apple officially rolled out its new plan for content subscriptions in the iPad. What it boils down to is that if you purchase an iPad version of a...

Apple tightens grip on app store

Feb 1, 2011
Apple has rejected an app from Sony that would simulate Sony's own e-book reader and allow customers to purchase books from Sony from inside the...