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Topic: Electronic Publishing
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5 signs that e-books are here to stay
If e-books were the new family on the block in 2010, they’re putting down roots and settling in for good in 2011. Here are five reasons why you can be sure that e-books are here to stay.
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Five ways Republicans will change the House
The US House of Representatives rewrites its own internal rules every two years, and House Republicans are proposing sweeping rules changes. Here are five significant proposed changes.
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Chapter & Verse
Digital Rights Managment to be dropped by Tor and other Macmillan sci-fi books
Digital Rights Management software was originally meant to restrict pirating of e-books, but many complain because of the restrictions it places on users.
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E-books lawsuit: Apple denies price-fixing charges
Apple is calling the US Justice Department's allegations that it colluded with publishers to fix e-book prices 'simply not true.'
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E-book revolution: We're reading more than ever
A study by the Pew Internet Project finds that consumers who use e-readers are buying more books.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: After 244 years in print, only digital copies sold
Encyclopaedia Britannica cost $1400 for a full 32-volume print edition. Only 4,000 are left in stock. Now, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will only be available in digital versions.
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E-book readers are buying plenty – but not in bookstores
The new study by Book Industry Study Group says e-book consumers are buying more books – both print and electronic – but they’re buying mostly online and via in-app purchasing.
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Indigo, Books-a-Million boycott Amazon
Booksellers Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million join Barnes & Noble in refusing to sell Amazon-published books – but Amazon may be looking into opening their own retail stores.
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Barnes & Noble fights back
A New York Times article puts Barnes & Noble – and its next e-reader – in the headlines.
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Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' takes top app prize
The Publishing Innovation Awards honors the 'Atlas Shrugged' book app, which includes bonus materials like lectures by Rand.
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Apple announces iBooks2, a new textbook program for iPad
Apple's new textbooks for iPad will let students zoom and rotate images, watch movies, and even complete tasks like dissecting frogs
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The Circle Bastiat
E-books get pricey. Will customers go paperback?
As e-book sales increase, their prices have inched upward. But will customers pay $10 to $15 for a digital book?
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Why Penguin is worried about the role of Amazon's Kindle in libraries
Penguin Group – citing security problems – has put a hold on the distribution of new e-books to libraries.
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Is Amazon's Kindle Lending Library a breach of contract?
Some writers are up in arms that Amazon's Kindle Lending Library is offering their books for free.
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Amazon moves toward "a Netflix for books"
Amazon is in talks with publishers to create an e-book service that would let customers pay to rent books, just the way they now do movies.
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Google Books scores a deal in France
It wasn't easy getting there, but Google Books has signed a deal with a major French publisher.
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Facebook acquires Push Pop Press: bad news for publishers?
Publishing industry experts rue the (temporary, anyway) disappearance of a promising new form of e-book innovation.
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Bankruptcy judge says OK to huge Borders sale
Bankruptcy liquidation will start Friday with $700 million in books, DVDs, and furniture discounted up to 40 percent. Borders expects to wrap up the bankruptcy sales in September.
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Google Books deal to be reached
Google and publishers ordered to reach a settlement on Google's proposed digital library by Sept. 15.
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Borders closing remaining stores
As Borders falls apart, almost 400 stores across the country will be closing.
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Horizons
iriver Story HD: Google eBooks gets its first dedicated e-reader
Google has taken the wraps off the iriver Story HD, the first e-reader to be completely integrated with Google eBooks.
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Horizons
iPad HD: Is Apple prepping a higher-res version of its tablet?
An iPad HD is on the way, one tech site says. In related news, people are really, really happy with their new iPad, HD or not.
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In South Korea, all textbooks will be e-books by 2015
Speeding past the US, South Korea will be digitizing reading material in all public schools by 2015.
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Kobo eReader Touch Edition could push e-reader prices low, low, low
Kobo's new eReader Touch Edition – the smallest, lightest, and cheapest touchscreen e-reader yet – is getting rave reviews.
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What's at stake in Google's plan to digitize all the world's books
Google, publishers, and authors asked a judge for another 60 days Wednesday to hammer out a deal to make Google Books a reality. The agreement could shape the nascent industry.
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Kindle users can borrow library e-books – is that a good thing?
Amazon's announcement that Kindle users can borrow library e-books may be good news for readers and libraries – but publishers could be the losers.
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New York Times paywall: Savior of journalism or confusing debacle?
The New York Times begins forcing users who read more than 20 articles a month online to buy a subscription. It seeks to break new ground in the bid to make online content profitable.
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