Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy talked about Google’s Vision for ebooks at the Computer History Museum last night. Google’s eBook Vision in a nutshell (courtesy MediaBistro) - Principle 1: [Anyone can sell digital books] Google will partner with all interested retailers, so you’ll be able to buy books wherever you like—at an online site [...]
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Update: The percentage change is changing – however, the sales ranks aren’t. Also, do check out this week’s Kindle Chronicles podcast as Len Edgerly interviews both Ian Freed, VP of Kindle at Amazon, and the student suing Amazon. If you take a look at the Kindle Store’s Movers & Shakers section you’ll see that we have [...]
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The Sony Reader PRS-600 is now available for order at Amazon for $299. At today’s (Aug 25th) Press Conference Sony announced you can order it. Although Sony is not touting it as such, the PRS-600 with its $299 price is a direct competitor to the Kindle 2. Sony Reader PRS-600 comes in with its Touch [...]
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The Sony Reader Pocket Edition, PRS-300, is now available for order at Amazon. The price for the Sony Reader 300 Pocket Edition is just $199. The main features include the low price, a 5″ screen with 8 shades of gray, the thin and light design, and availability in various colors. Sony is contrasting it with the [...]
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There’s a really amusing discussion going on at the Amazon Forums over the latest class action law-suit Amazon is facing. Why is this kid suing Amazon? The notes that he took on 1984 were for a summer homework assignment and the notes were ‘rendered useless’ when the book was withdrawn from his account. This one [...]
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