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Kindle Gets Audio/Video… On the iPad and iPhone

Published on June 28, 2010 By elmer

Amazon just introduced a audio and video to the Kindle, but the only way to experience the new Kindle multimedia books is on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. A baker’s dozen of titles already come in multimedia editions, including Rick Steves’ travel guides, Best of the Beatles For Acoustic Guitar, and Bird Songs: 250 [...]

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Free PC app for the Kindle will soon be downloadable | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Published on October 22, 2009 By elmer

“Kindle for PC features Amazon’s Whispersync technology that automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. Whether you read Kindle books on a Kindle, Kindle DX, or one of the free Kindle applications, you can always have your reading with you and never lose your place. With Kindle for PC, you can [...]

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Princeton Kindle Trial Gets Mixed Reviews

Published on September 29, 2009 By elmer

“Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,” he explained. “All these things have been lost, and [...]

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Sony Reader Goes EPUB Only

Published on August 13, 2009 By elmer

On Thursday, Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, plans to announce that by the end of the year it will sell digital books only in the ePub format, an open standard created by a group including publishers like Random House and HarperCollins. via Major news: Sony goes EPUB only; scraps its [...]

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The Rocketbelt Caper: Free eBook, Print Too

Published on July 7, 2009 By elmer

“When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000 shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder. From sci-fi to reality, [...]

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