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With Apple’s announcement of the iPad and the Apple iBook store, people have been noticing the ongoing debate about e-books, e-readers and the ugly concept of DRM, which assumes that paying customers are thieves. Joining the fray, is is Stephen Green, also known as the Vodkapundit. Of course, I had join in.
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Barnes and Noble has announced the Nook, their e-book reader. This is in direct competition to Amazon’s Kindle. It’s a very similar bit of technology, the major difference being that the B&N Nook will allow users to “share” e-books with other Nook users. It works this way. You purchase an ebook from B&N on your [...]
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As I’ve noted before, it is my theory that Amazon does not actual sell e-books on it’s Kindle device, it leases the book to the reader. Another point of evidence to support that theory has just come out. According to this New York Times story, Amazon can delete e-books off your Kindle, that you have [...]
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Before you get too excited, it won’t be released until next month, it’s only available in Japan, and it has a $1,000 price tag. The FLEPia will however have a color screen with touch capabilities. Old School Palm OS stylus touch control though. The display uses a variant of LCD tech that doesn’t use a [...]
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Another dedicated etext reader platform is due to join the ranks of the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. This one, put out by Plastic Logic, it is based on the e-Ink technology that has been out for years. The drawo of this reader is that is larger (8.5″ x 11″) and more “rugged” than [...]
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From a post on another blog originally made November 27, 2007. Here is my geek punditry for the day. The Amazon Kindle etext reader is going to sell well. It will succeed for the same reason the iPod did. The iPod did not dominate the mp3 player market by creating a better mp3 player, they [...]
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