E-book release delayed for Kennedy memoir

E-book fans will have to wait for a download of Sen. Ted Kennedy's memoir.

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New Sony e-book reader $100 cheaper than Kindle

Electronic books are often mentioned in the same breath as Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle digital reader. Now e-book rival Sony Corp. is determined to recapture consumers' attention with a smaller reader that's also $100 cheaper.

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With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.

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Photo Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.

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The question is, who isn't getting in on the e-book reader action these days? Less than two weeks after we met Barnes & Nobles' Nook and just a few days after hearing of tire maker Bridgestone's plans for a flexible e-reader, our friends at Crave UK alerted us that Creative may b …

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On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe's best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.

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Dear e-book publishers: stop gouging us. Look, I'm your biggest fan. I've been reading digitally distributed fiction and non-fiction since the early days of the PalmPilot. The most frequently used apps on my iPhone, bar none, are Kindle, eReader, and Stanza.

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Sony, which we've blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers.

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The new gadget, made by Elonex for Borders UK, is not particularly flashy. Where the Sony Reader and Amazon's Kindle - which is not available in Britain - are sleek and beautiful, the Borders eBook is simple and functional.

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Sherman Young, acting head of the department of media, music and cultural studies at Macquarie University, Sydney and author of "The Book Is Dead (Long Live the Book)": this year the e-book on the move.

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Electronic books may be the fastest growing segment of the publishing world, but some authors are still not interested in participating. You won't, for instance, find any of the Harry Potter novels in digital format.

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I want an E-book, I want my book to be on an e-book, but i don't need it

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Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world's largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today.

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Having used both Kindles 1 and 2, I thought it would helpful to list where the new Kindle excels and where it falters.

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GADGET-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough - until now. Plastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible electronic book in January.

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A Better Kindle Still Isn't Great

When the first Kindle came out it inspired in me a sense of ugh. It was hideous to look at with an awkward appearing keyboard and hugely obtrusive buttons along the sides.

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Remember my review of Amazon's first Kindle? I thought it sucked. Almost all of my ire was aimed at its design. I couldn't hold it or pass it to other people without it flipping pages and the UI looked like something Microsoft designed back in the late 1980s.

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The pace of the e-book market over the past decade has been excruciatingly—and yes, you guessed it, unjustly—slow. My frustration is much like that of the Mac users of old.

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Like casually spotting the Abominable Snowman behind a Christmas tree, Techcrunch recently confirmed rumors of an iPod Touch with a 7-to-9 inch screen--a revelation that could change the digital book market.

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Plastic Logic--a company founded to commercialize electronics built on flexible plastic substrates--demonstrated a prototype e-book reader (not yet named) and announced that it plans to ship this product in the first half of next year. You can read the press release for yourself.

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The book will include a foreword by Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, and feature sections — written by members of Obama for America, his presidential campaign — on such issues as health care, energy and national security.

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Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle has turned a long underperforming category of tech gadget -- e-book readers -- into an overnight hit, and in the process has boosted interest in electronic paper display (EPD) technology.

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I'm "live blogging" from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's day-long media event at the MIT Media Lab.

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According to the research, sponsored by UK media lawyers Wiggin, survey data shows books have the highest "attachment" rating of any leisure media activity.

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The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books.

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Oprah Winfrey is offering a free downloadable copy of Suze Orman's Women & Money through her website until 8 p.m.

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The very existence of a book scanner for consumer use is one of those early warnings of turbulence to come.

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