Kindle to get exclusive e-books: TechVi Now Morning Edition
Amazon snags another author for its Kindle e-book store and Netflix clears up rumors about its streaming video service. Meanwhile, Apple introduces Aperture 3, but no new hardware. Find out more on TechVi Now.
Amazon acquires touchscreen company: TechVi Now Morning Edition
The countdown to a touchscreen Amazon device has begun. Also, Facebook has changed up the way it displays your e-mail address and there are a couple of new ways to discover apps if you use Android or iPhone. Find out more on TechVi Now.
E-books after the Amazon fiasco: The Bottom Line
Now that Macmillan showed that a publishing company could get Amazon to raise prices on e-books, will others follow? We talk to Clayton Morris and Brian Heater to make sense of the still developing e-book landscape.
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- Brian Heater , PC Mag
- Clayton Morris , Fox News Channel
PS3, e-readers and laptops: What we want for Black Friday
Tis the season for gadgets, and while Turkey day is Thursday, gadget gurus know Friday is the annual free-for-all for the Christmas season. What are some of the big presents under the tree this year? We ask Christina Warren from Mashable, and our own Iyaz Akhtar.
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Amazon announces Kindle for PC
Amazon has announced Kindle for PC, an application that allows users to read Kindle books on their desktop or laptop, and can sync with other Kindle devices via Amazon's Whispersync technology. Kindle for PC will be available worldwide as a free download next month.
Que proReader announced by Plastic Logic
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Plastic Logic will unveil the Que proReader at CES next year. The device will have an 8.5 x 11-inch screen, WiFi and will support PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. Also, as we reported in May, the reader will have 3G capabilities through AT&T's network to download content from the Que store, powered by Barnes & Noble.
Google teams up with COOLERBOOKS to offer PD library in UK
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COOLERBOOKS, a UK-based e-book store, will now have access to Google's massive public domain library. Allowing the merchant to offer customers over a million different titles, the partnership marks the first time Google has offered the library in such a way outside of the US, and is another slight against Amazon and its pair of Kindle e-book readers.