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The Amazon Tablet Is Real and Coming Soon

Amazon is releasing a new Kindle in tablet format sometime this Fall. It’s going to be the same size as the current Kindle but I’m told that’s where the similarities end. This newest Kindle will be color and Tech Crunch TechCrunch, it looks a lot like a Blackberry Playbook, and those are gorgeous looking! Here’s [...]

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The Effect of E-Books and E-Readers on Authors

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Although the info immediately below is about past articles we’ve written, we thought you might be interested in these 2 updates. 1) Amazon’s Cloud Reader Software: Cloud computing to the rescue. This HTML 5 reader was initially launched with the iPad/Apple market in mind. Very interesting move by Amazon. Read all about it here. 2) [...]

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The Effect of E-Books and E-Readers on Publishers

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There is no doubt in anyone’s mind in the publishing/book industry that the increasing popularity of e-books and e-readers is affecting that industry. The publishing industry has over time developed into a very grounded industry. How it has functioned doesn’t appear to have changed much over time, other than tweaks as culture changed. That appears [...]

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The Effect of E-Books and E-Readers on Libraries

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This Monday series of articles looks at how the future of books, and the organizations/people/companies associated with them, are being affected by e-books and e-readers. This week we’re looking at libraries. There are three major kinds of libraries: public, academic/research, and corporate/legal. For the purposes of this article, we are just going to focus on [...]

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The Future of Books, Bookstores & Publishers: E-Books vs. Hard-Copy Books

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This series of articles looks at how e-readers and e-books are reshaping the publishing and bookselling industry. If you missed the first article on the history of e-readers, click here. Update on E-Readers: Since the e-reader industry is very dynamic, I wanted to update you on some possibly important developments that were announced after last [...]

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The Future of Books, Bookstores & Publishers: Intro & E-Reader Comparison

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This series of articles will look at how e-readers and e-books are reshaping the publishing and bookselling industry. Today’s article is an Introduction and a little history of e-readers. I’ve been reading a lot of studies and articles over the past couple of years about whether e-books are going to kill hard-copy books, bookstores, [...]

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