Sony’s New E-Reader To Take on Amazon’s Kindle?

Electronics major, Sony has confirmed the launch of its upgraded digital E-book reader in US in early August this year with a view to give a big competition to Amazon’s popular Kindle E-reader, reports...
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Amazon To Join The Tablet Wars?

The tablet wars are getting fiercer with each passing day. And the latest to join the bandwagon is none other than Amazon, the world’s largest internet retailer. According to a report by the WSJ, Amazon...
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Digital Content Head To Head With Traditional Content

Crux of the matter for getting fresh news was print media — newspapers, but the shift was  quite visible when news were accessed over the web. According to the surveys conducted by multimarket study...
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Amazon Increases Revenue Share For Publishers

In a move aimed at securing its eReader dominance, Amazon has announced that it will increase the revenue split for magazine and newspaper publishers from their former 30%, to a whopping 70% of the retail...
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Hindustan Times On Kindle – A Look At The Future Of E-Readers

E-Readers are quite a new phenomenon in India with Amazon’s kindle being available for sale here recently. But that didn’t stop one of the leading newspapers in India to jump onto the e-reader...
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Books in Your Pocket – Penguin Ties up With MobiFusion

I once heard someone from one of the big research businesses saying “media content providers are more interested about fame – I doubt they are keen on distribution”. Well things are changing (or...
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Paperless Publishing

I was in college when Google started the Google Books project. That was in December 2007 (Courtesy, the first comment) December 2004. Google announced that it has started to scan and digitize the books...
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The Future of Books – What they May be like 5 Years From Now!

Amazon recently introducted the Kindle, which is sold out as of now. As Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com has already said – “The Book is the last bastion of Analog”.    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUKQ7QqOHw[/youtube]    Well...
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200 Books.. Now the Size of a Paperback!

Consumers so far have phones that surf the internet, look for directions, write email; mp3 players that let them watch videos, listen to podcasts and yes, also listen to music. Digital publishers and manufacturers...
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