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Muggles celebrate: Harry Potter e-books enter Kindle Owners' Lending Library

When we last visited the subject ofHarry Potter e-books,you could FIND the e-books at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, but you couldn't buy...
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Why buy e-books instead of regular books?

Buying regular books to read and then set on a shelf for years is a thing of the past, unless you like the feel of paper. Sounds silly, but I'...
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Apple, publishers face multiple price-fixing Canadian class action lawsuits

Although Applewants a trialin the e-book price fixing lawsuit levied against it by the Justice Department, meaning it feels confident it will win,...
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Apple issues first statement on DOJ e-book pricing lawsuit

We certainly didn't expect differently, since Apple's stance on this matter has been well-known. We just didn't know when. On Friday,...
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Incl. add-on purchases, Amazon.com making $130+ on each Kindle Fire: analyst

Despite losing about$2 to $3 on the hardware,Amazon.com is making well over $100 on average per Kindle Fire sold, according to estimates by RBC...
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At least 295,000 books lent by Kindle Owners' Lending Library in Dec.

Amazon.com's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has proved immensely popular since itsintroduction in November.Amazon.com is dishing out data...
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Apple confirms education-focused event on Jan. 19

Wealready expectedthis event, and we also expected the typical "at least one week" lead time, and we got it: Apple has scheduled an event...
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Amazon.com sells more than a million Kindle family devices weekly in Dec.

Amazon.com isn't one to give full, detailed information on sales (for example, it has never detailed Kindle sales figures before), so take this...
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The week ahead in sailing: December 19-24, 2011

Given it’s the week before Christmas, sailing is either the furthest thing from your mind or front and center as a means of escape. Finish...
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Book Lovers Buffet: a bevy of bargain books by indie authors

What’s a group of writers do to promote their books for the holidays? They create The Book Lovers Buffet (BLB) according to idea master and...
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