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Deck the halls with pads and tablets! It seems the recently concluded holiday season has resulted in healthy sales figures for tablets and e-readers. This has probably lined Apple's and Amazon's pockets with enough cash to last until next Christmas.
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Barnes & Noble, the country's biggest chain of bookstores, has unveiled its new Nook Tablet earlier today. Meant as an upgrade to its Android-powered Nook Color e-reader, the Nook Tablet offers better specs, better cloud-based services and promises a better overall package for tablet users.
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Amazon is adopting a new business model, and it might hurt longtime relationships with publishers in the process. But will this be the future of publishing? Earlier this year, Amazon announced the establishment of a new publishing house under a new division, Amazon Publishing.
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The holiday season is nearing, and gadget-makers are scrambling to be in the lead in terms of sales and market share. Just as Amazon is promising to announce its new Kindle this week, Barnes & Noble is reportedly planning the launch of new Nook Color Android tablets priced at $349.
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Amazon's new Kindle tablet is underway, and if Amazon delivers as promised, consumers will be able to get their hands on this new tablet by the holiday season.
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As e-reader sales race ahead of those jumped-up, overpriced, tablets, led by Amazon's (news, site ) Kindle, does America just want a really good read? And will the release of the Star Wars novels give them an even bigger boost? The Force is With Them In a fortuitous move
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The market for tablet computers is a booming one, as per recent figures. As of end 2010, 18 million tablets were shipped worldwide according to IDC (news, site ). Apple is in the lead, with the iPad almost capturing the market for media tablets.
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As we wrap up Read an E-book Week, e-books continue to make headlines. As it turns out, while technology has made it possible to read many books from one device, publishers and other traditional venues of book distribution have yet to catch up.
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We've been through this before. The infamous publishing paywall is slated to go up again for New York Times readers. For many readers of other various local papers, paywalls have been a reality for awhile, leaving us to wonder if paid content models actually work.
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Thanks to mobile devices like the iPad and the Kindle, eReading and ebooks are growing in popularity, bringing new life to the publishing industry. A recent report illustrates just how far the eBook market has come in the past year. Aptara’s report, eBooks -- A Second Look Assessing the Latest Impact of eBooks on the Publishing Market, surveyed more than 600
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The last time we covered the Frankfurt Book Fair, 70 percent of active readers were ready to go digital. Two years later, they will get a first look at Impelsys’ new iPad module for its publishing platform, iPublishCentral. A Content Delivery Module The new iPad module lets publishers access
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Has the smartphone become an all-one-device? Is it changing the way you interact with other media devices? This week we explore those questions and more! A Badge for Your App When we talk about mobile security, the issues range from ensuring the safety of secure information to downloading applications
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Are e-Readers changing the way we read? According to new research, it seems that it is. A study of 1,200 e-reader owners found that 40% read more than they did with print books. e-Readers Increase Accessibility The study, which aimed to look at the behaviors of owners of three devices:
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This week, the mobile enterprise gains security, a beloved browser sync and the iPad continues to wreak havoc on e-Readers. Google Mobile Apps Gain More Security In the past year, Google has brought more and more of their apps to mobile devices. Accompanying the great many cloud computing tools,
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