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EBooks: Sony Announces Wireless Reader and Partnerships with More Booksellers & Libraries
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 25, 2009 9:31 AM / 5 Comments

Sony today announced that it will sell a wireless eReader device for $399 by Christmas. The Reader Daily Edition will be powered by AT&T's 3G network. That in itself is

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Republic Project Launches: Putting a New Spin on Album Pre-Sales
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 25, 2009 8:41 AM / 9 Comments

The Republic Project, which offers one of the most interesting ways for artists to monetize their efforts that we have seen recently, is coming out of closed beta this week.

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Defective By Design: Kindle Discourages Readers
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 18, 2009 6:26 PM / 4 Comments

The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign just added the Amazon Kindle to its list of DRM-related offenders. The organization started a petition against Amazon for restricting readers' access

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Sony Adopts Open (But Still DRMed) Format for eBooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 13, 2009 9:03 AM / 1 Comments

In a move that took most industry pundits by surprise, Sony today announced that it will adopt the open ePub standard as the default format for books in its eBook

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Kazaa Goes Legit - But It Will Fail
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 20, 2009 8:45 AM / 2 Comments

Not too long ago, after the demise of Napster, Kazaa became synonymous with P2P file sharing. After a number of costly lawsuits and failed attempts to appease the music industry,

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eMusic Users Revolt Over Latest Changes
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 2, 2009 1:06 PM / 17 Comments

eMusic, one of the world's largest subscription-based music retailers, has for the first time added music from Sony's catalog to its store. Most users on eMusic subscribe to the service

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Major Publisher Simon & Schuster Succumbs to Siren Song of eBooks
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 11, 2009 5:26 PM / 5 Comments

Social publisher Scribd and CBS-owned megapublisher of "real" books Simon & Schuster have just announced an agreement to sell Simon & Schuster eBooks in the Scribd Store. The Scirbd store

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The Big-Screen Kindle: It's About Textbooks, Not Saving the Newspapers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 4, 2009 8:32 AM / 9 Comments

According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace

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Fastest Growing Category in Apple's App Store: eBooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 1, 2009 9:52 AM / 4 Comments

We already know that the iPhone has quickly become one of the most important mobile platforms, and today, O'Reilly's Ben Lorica took a closer look at the developers behind the

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Facebook Goes International: Sees Impressive Growth Rates in Africa and Asia
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 20, 2009 11:15 AM / 3 Comments

According to data compiled by O'Reilly's Ben Lorica, Facebook is currently seeing some very impressive growth outside of the United States. In Africa and Asia, for example, Facebook's active user

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