arstechnica.com - 2/6/2009
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I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, ...
arstechnica.com - 2/3/2009
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arstechnica.com —
I was pitched headfirst into the world of
e-books in 2002 when I took a job with
Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, ...
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The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
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Will Amazon bring Kindle to the iPhone?
Macworld —
... , I can see the benefits.) Certainly the book-reading experience on the iPhone is better than what one might expect. As Ars Technica’s John Siracusa pointed out this week in his excellent e-book analysis , the App store has provided us with an excellent public-domain book reader, ...
Will Amazon bring Kindle to the iPhone?
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... , I can see the benefits.) Certainly the book-reading experience on the iPhone is better than what one might expect. As Ars Technica’s John Siracusa pointed out this week in his excellent e-book analysis , the App store has provided us with an excellent public-domain book reader, ...
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... John Siracusa Examines Past, Present, and Future of Ebooks -- John Siracusa at Ars Technica turns his attention to ebooks in this lengthy piece, bemoaning the slow state of adoption at the mainstream level and making the oft-missed distinction between ebooks and ebook readers. (Posted 2009-02-11) ...
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