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eBooks will dwarf physical books in 5 years

By “dead,” he of course doesn’t mean completely dead. But he means that digital books are going to replace physical books as the dominant form. His argument is related to his One Laptop per Child Foundation. On those laptops, he can include hundreds or thousands of books. If you think about trying to ship that many physical books to the emerging world for each child, it would be impossible, he reasons.
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iPad Comes With 30,000 Free E-Books

Huck Finn, Pride & Prejudice, Roget's Thesaurus, you get the idea- the "classics". All available free by way of iPad's e-book storefront for free.
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Kobo - $150 minimal e-reader to be sold at Borders

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The Kobo e-reader is the spark that set this post off; at $150, this 6?-screen, 0.1?-thin, half-pound device is among the very cheapest e-readers out there, yet Kobo also runs its own bookstore, which has the usual classics and bestsellers — probably 90% of what gets sold for e-readers. It’s going to be sold at Borders, and with its modest price tag might make for more of a temptation to browsing customers.
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Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales

A new study from two academics at BYU tracking the sales of printed books following free ebook releases found that generally, a free ebook release is correlated with increased sales. Interestingly, the exception is for a group of ebooks that were released for a week and then withdrawn
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Time Inc. Shows Us Their Idea of the Future of Magazines [Video]

It seems that every major magazine publisher has their own idea of how their magazines should look on the upcoming Tablet of Newspaper Salvation, due to be created by Apple (who, by the way, didn’t officially confirm they’re working on any such device). First it was Condé Nast, who’s preparing a digital version of Wired magazine for the Apple Tablet, and now it’s Time Inc., which released a video demonstration of a tabletized Sports Illustrated.
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Barnes And Noble's E-Reader Is Called "Nook"

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Barnes & Noble's e-book reader will be called the "Nook" and it will cost $259 reports the Wall Street Journal. The Journal saw an ad for the Nook taken out by B&N for the Sunday Book Review. According to the ad, you'll be able to lend books to friends with the Nook, and it will have a color touch screen for controls.
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Who will win the e-book war?

(From The Wall Street Journal ) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a brash price war against Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday, saying it would sell 10 hotly anticipated new books for just $10 apiece through its online site, Walmart.com. That was just the beginning.
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Kindle 2 goes to $259 - want one now?

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This just in: the Kindle 2 is falling from $299 to $259 and they will be selling an international version with built-in AT&T SIM card for $279 on October 19. Quoth the suits: “Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by making it mobile, easy and intuitive,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. “We are excited to work with Amazon to help readers access books even faster and from significantly more places than ever before, including more than 100 countries and territories around the world through AT&T’s global wireless coverage.”
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Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books

Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nourry says that he worries that the combination of the $9.99 price for bestsellers and the fact that Google now offers millions of out-of-copyright books for free could destroy profits for traditional publishing houses. Nourry is especially worried about the fact that Amazon is currently selling eBooks at a loss and that the company will soon demand that publishers will lower their prices so that it can actually make a profit from selling eBooks in its Kindle store.
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2010 – Year of the E-book Reader?

After a long wait in the shadows, E-books look set to become big business next year. Being able to read a vast library of books, magazines and newspapers on a small handheld device is becoming increasingly attractive to consumers and manufacturers know it. The current big names in E-book readers, Amazon and Sony, look set to be joined by heightened competition in the budget end of the market.
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Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader

A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago. In a 7-page complaint filed with a Virginia district court Monday, Berne, Switzerland-based MONEC Holding Ltd accuses the iPhone maker of patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization, and tortious interference for allegedly treading on its January 2002 patent No. 6,335,678 titled "Electronic device, preferably an electronic book."
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Nintendo Goes After Kindle Crowd With GameBoy DS E-Reader

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How will this work out? click [more] for pic. "Count one more e-reader on the market: Nintendo inked a deal with publisher HarperCollins to turn its DS portable game console in a electronic book reading device in the UK. A new cartridge coming on the market has the full text of about 100 classic (old) books."
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