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  • Why eBooks Still Suck - Articles & reviews

    Instead of having to carry five printed books, for example, they could get five books on flash media and simply swap them in and out of a single eBook reader. Like pen computing a decade ago - anyone else got an Eo gathering dust in a closet? - the eBook is a concept that hasn't reached the potential that marketing types ascribed to it. The first is relevant for Harry Potter fans: Muggle children don't buy eBook hardware, so there isn't much of an installed base to read the eBook in the first place. Second, the eBook hardware is always a day late and a pound too heavy when compared to the latest laptops. Finally, the way most of us read, coupled with the rise of audio books and in-car back-seat CD and tape players, have made eBook technologies less interesting....

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  • E-Book encryption cracked - News

    A hacker has made available code that reportedly cracks the encryption that protects e-book content in RocketBook format. A hacker has made available code that reportedly cracks the encryption that protects e-book content in RocketBook format....

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  • FIC to manufacture e-book for Panasonic - News

    FIC to manufacture e-book for Panasonic. fic to manufacture e. First International Computer (FIC) has received an OEM order from Matsushita Electronic Industrial for a new electronic book reader (e-book), the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer announced yesterday. First International Computer (FIC) has received an OEM order from Matsushita Electronic Industrial for a new electronic book reader (e-book), the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer announced yesterday....

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  • Sony e-book reader with E Ink display headed to Borders book stores - News

    Sony e-book reader with E Ink display headed to Borders book stores. sony reader e ink headed to borders. What was announced was that customers would have the ability to purchase pre-paid cards through Borders, which entitles them to acquire e-books through Sony’s CONNECT service. Equally up in the air is the practical issue of price and availability, which applies to both the Reader and the e-books themselves....

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  • Microsoft makes "Visual Basic 2005" ebook available free of charge - News

    Microsoft makes "Visual Basic 2005" ebook available free of charge. vb2005 ebook....

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  • How soon could Apple build an 'e-book' Ipod? - News

    How soon could Apple build an 'e-book' Ipod?. how soon can apple build an e book ipod. Engadget’s report was later cited by many press sources, including Daily Variety, as an indication that Apple was not only building an iPod with an e-book reader, or e-reader, but may be preparing to announce such a device as soon as this September. Any device willing to compete with Sony’s e-book reader will need to be at least as legible....

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  • J.K. Rowling Still A Technophobe, No Harry Potter VII eBook - News

    J.K. Rowling Still A Technophobe, No Harry Potter VII eBook. no ebook for harry potter. With the impending feeding frenzy that is the June 21 launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Clearosol" [Deathly Hallows -Ed] the rather rich author J.K. Rowling has said that she detests eBooks and will not allow the ePublication of the final Potter book. None of the Harry Potter books have been published as an eBook, not because it doesn’t make financial sense but because the author believes that everyone would then steal her books ; and besides, people are better off reading books on old fashioned paper, she told the Assosiated Press. Sony released a very nice eBook Reader, thankyouverymuch, and I’d just as well read about Harry Potter’s in-law troubles there as anywhere....

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  • Readius device combines e-book reader with mobile phone - News

    Readius device combines e-book reader with mobile phone....

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  • Sony Opens Up eBook Reader - News

    Sony has announced that its Reader Digital Book will be the first eBook reader to support the .epub format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s XML-based standard format for publishing ebooks. Sony has announced that its Reader Digital Book will be the first eBook reader to support the .epub format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s XML-based standard format for publishing ebooks. The reader will continue to support the BBeB format native to Sony’s eBook store and additionally, will support Adobe Digital Editions software enabling users to read copyright-protected PDF files....

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  • Why eBooks Still Suck - Articles & reviews

    Why eBooks Still Suck. why ebooks still suck. eBooks have always had great promise, yet continue to disappoint. A compelling eBook reader for kids could open that demographic, just like the iPod did. Academics can take advantage of the eBook's ability to carry multiple books at once. It's not clear to me that going after teens with eBooks is the right thing for leisure," says Bischoff. So they are not buying [eBook hardware] to read Harry Potter, but they could read Harry Potter on it, too." ...

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