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Report: EReader and EBook Market Ready for Growth
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 1, 2009 2:01 PM / 5 Comments

According to a new report from Forrester, the eBook and eReader market has now hit a point where it is ready to break out of its niche and become a

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Is Google Getting Ready to Enter the eBook Market?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 1, 2009 9:00 AM / 10 Comments

According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the eBook market by providing publishers with an infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. The

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Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 3:10 PM / 6 Comments

Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring,

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Amazon Opens a Kindle Store for the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 11, 2009 12:40 PM / 4 Comments

Today, Amazon finally released an iPhone-specific version of its Kindle eBook store, which makes it a lot easier to browse and buy books while on the go. Sadly, though, Amazon

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Amazon Introduces New Big-Screen EBook Reader: Focus on Newspapers and Textbooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 6, 2009 8:13 AM / 9 Comments

During an event in New York City this morning, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, unveiled a larger version of the company's successful Kindle eBook reader. The new device, the Kindle DX,

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Would Students Even Want a Kindle for Textbooks?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 5, 2009 10:49 AM / 34 Comments

We speculated about this yesterday, and by now, it looks like a given that Amazon will release a larger version of its Kindle eBook reader tomorrow that will focus on

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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 / 7 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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Amazon's Web Services Go To School
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 29, 2009 9:54 AM / 2 Comments

Amazon just announced AWS in Education, a new program that will give students and educators free access to Amazon's Web Services (AWS) for work on research projects, class assignments, or

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Consolidation in the EBook Market: Amazon Acquires Stanza
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 27, 2009 1:35 PM / 7 Comments

Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular eBook reader for the iPhone, just announced that it has been acquired by Amazon. Amazon, of course, also just released Kindle for iPhone,

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Recommendation Systems: Where Are We Now, Where Do We Need To Go?
Written by Guest Author / April 19, 2009 10:00 AM / 8 Comments

A website (whether a URL, domain, brand, etc.) is a place where the owner, individual visitor, and broader web community come together for a shared purpose. At first, the web

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