Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads
(AP) -- Sony plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but...
View ArticleAmazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books.
View ArticleSony's eBooks to work with libraries
Maybe now it's an actual competition between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's forlorn "Reader" e-book.
View ArticleWal-Mart to sell goods from other vendors on Web
(AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched an addition to its online business that has outside retailers selling nearly 1 million new items through Walmart.com, a move that could help the world's...
View ArticleGermany challenges Google books settlement: minister
Germany on Tuesday said it opposed a legal settlement that would allow Google to digitise and sell millions of books online, arguing it violated international treaties on authors' rights.
View ArticleCoolerbooks.com gets 1M books from Google scans
(AP) -- Interead, a British company that sells the COOL-ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public-domain books to its online bookstore. The texts are available from Google Inc....
View ArticleAmazon.com makes its case against Google book deal
(AP) -- Amazon.com is warning a federal judge that Google will be able to overcharge consumers and stifle competition if it wins court approval to add millions more titles to its already vast digital...
View ArticleYouTube to offer online movie rentals
YouTube is considering streaming movies for rental, a move that would see the free video-sharing site charging for content for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
View ArticleBlinkx at work on search engine for online video
If you're like me, when looking for a video online, you reflexively go to YouTube or maybe to Hulu.
View ArticleJudge extends deadline to debate Google book deal
(AP) -- The final assault on a class-action settlement that would expand Google Inc.'s already vast digital library has been delayed until next week.
View ArticleAmazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
View ArticleE-book release delayed for Kennedy memoir
(AP) -- E-book fans will have to wait for a download of Sen. Ted Kennedy's memoir.
View ArticleGoogle to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
View ArticleFeds balk at Google book deal, hopes for changes
(AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart...
View ArticleAmazon widens private labels with electronics gear
(AP) -- Consumers visit Amazon.com for deals on products from companies ranging from Apple Inc. to Zenith Electronics Corp. Now, the online retailer wants shoppers to check out stuff that carries...
View ArticleSony opens electronic bookstore to self-publishers
Sony opened its electronic bookstore to would-be authors Tuesday in a partnership with two self-publishing companies.
View ArticleAmazon settles suit over deleted Orwell books
Amazon.com has settled a lawsuit that sprang from a Big Brother-like move of deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers as a quick fix for copyright concerns.
View ArticleAmazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo! targeted in patent case
A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent.
View ArticleAmazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing...
View ArticleE-reader sales soaring but Apple captures the buzz
Sales of electronic book readers are booming, companies are jostling for a share of the fledgling market and Amazon's going global with the Kindle.
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