books fight with Kindle
reuters.com 10/15/2009 — * Google to sell e-books for any device with Web browser * Top lawyer confident of U.S. legal settlement success * Amazon shares fall 2 percent (Adds analyst comment, shares) By Georgina Prodhan FRANKFURT, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Google ( GOOG.O ) plans ...

Google's E-Books Store Will Start Off With Around 500,000 Titles
paidcontent.org 10/15/2009 — Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is slowly rolling out details about its forthcoming online e-books store, which it is calling Google Editions. At the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week, the company said that the store—which will compete with ...

Google sparks e
tech.yahoo.com 10/15/2009 — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle . The Web search giant said on ...

Google Editions: Kindle-rivaling online book store will go live in 2010
obsessable.com 10/15/2009 — Yahoo! Tech: http://bit.ly/30PtBp Google has formally announced its plans to launch an online book store called Google Editions . The service will work over the web, but its books will be readable on a wide variety of devices, including e-readers, cell phones, and of course regular computers. ...

Amazon Clarifies When It Will Remove Kindle Books [Trust Amazon]
consumerist.com 10/8/2009 — As part of a settlement with the customer who sued Amazon over the 1984 fiasco this past summer, Amazon has clarified under what circumstances it can delete your books. Notably, Amazon is not saying...

Amazon Kindle for PC launches
slashgear.com 27 days ago — We first caught wind of the Amazon Kindle for PC application back in October when it was announced with a vague launch date of November. Amazon announced yesterday that the Kindle for PC application is now available for download. The app turns your notebook or desktop into an eReader to access ...

Amazon formally protests Google Books settlement
engadget.com 9/3/2009 — Well, we knew this was coming : Amazon's trying to convince a federal judge to block the $125m settlement that'll let Google Books make out-of-print works available online. According to Amazon's newly-filed brief, allowing the settlement will ...

Amazon Kindle Go International
hardwaresphere.com 10/9/2009 — This is an exciting news for Amazon Kindle 2 fans on the Non-English Speaking countries. Amazon is going to sell its new version of Kindle and allow more than 100 other countries to buy, download, and read their books in less than 60 seconds. This is great because the user in the ...

Google Books: Authors Guild comes out swinging at Amazon
guardian.co.uk 9/4/2009 — With the deadline drawing closer in the dispute over the Google Books settlement (representations to the New York court overseeing the case have to be made by the end of this week) the battle between the two sides is growing more fierce by the day.  ...

Epic: Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him $400 [Kindle2]
consumerist.com 10/20/2009 — Paul bought a Kindle 2 from Amazon. He dropped it one day, and it sort of broke but not entirely, and Amazon wanted $200 to replace it. Instead, he got them to send him a $400 check, while still...

Amazon looks for 'Call of Duty-est Town' — CNET News.com 11/2/2009
Online retailer is hoping to find the single town in the U.S. that loves Call of Duty more than the others. A hometown charity will receive a $5,000 gift certificate for the win.

Amazon laces up Zappos buy — CNET News.com 11/2/2009
The acquisition, which was originally announced in July, was worth about $850 million in a mix of cash and stock.

Google's Chrome browser share growth trumps Firefox's — Latest from Computerworld 11/2/2009
Google's Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla's Firefox in October, the fourth time its gains have trumped those of the second-place browser in the last year, a Web metrics company said yesterday.

Chrome and others nibble away IE usage — CNET News.com 11/2/2009
October statistics show Google's browser eked away the most usage share from dominant Microsoft. Will Firefox reach 25 percent usage by the end of the year?

Chrome and others nibble away IE usage — CNET News - Business Tech 11/2/2009
Google's Chrome is still the fourth-place browser in terms of usage, but it gained more than others in October when it comes to stealing usage away from the dominant Internet Explorer. According to Net Applications' browser usage share ...