Amazon Book Archive

  • Barnes & Noble launches its own e-book store, and you can read ‘em on your iPhone or PC

    Barnes & Noble launches its own e-book store, and you can read ‘em on your iPhone or PC

    Well look at that, Barnes & Noble is getting into the e-book game. Right now, there's no stand-alone reader to go along with the company's just-launched e-book store, but it's not big deal; odds are you already have the reader. (A reader, created by Plastic Logic, is scheduled to go on sale early next year.) The store, which has “700,000 titles” on its servers, goes live alongside an iPhone (and iPod touch) and Mac/PC reader software. That is, as you fire up, I don't know, iPhoto or Notepad, you could be reading The Beckham Experiment.

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  • Book publishers’ latest hobby? Complaining about the Amazon Kindle’s success

    Book publishers’ latest hobby? Complaining about the Amazon Kindle’s success

    We're starting to see more and more “hate” being thrown Amazon's way. That's because, of course, the Kindle is something of a success, and publishers, who already operate a pretty wonky business (more on that in a bit), are becoming concerned that Amazon will soon be able to wield the same kind of power that Apple did over the music industry. Basically, book publishers don't want Amazon to “own” the digital book market.

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