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The rumors persisted of Lehman Brothers' being taken over again, and it was against such a background that Dick devised his pièce de résistance.
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How trader Dick morphed into banker CEO Dick Fuld
The battle for the digital books market intensified on Tuesday, as office supplies retailer Staples Inc said it would start selling Amazon.com Inc's Kindle, and bookseller Borders Group Inc said it was cutting its prices on some e-readers.
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Staples to sell Kindle, Borders cuts reader prices
Amazon today in a talk provided some rare added insight into the Kindle by disputing Apple's market share claims. The store's VP of Digital Ian Freed believes assertions the iBookstore has 22 percent share are false as Amazon has too large a share, at 70 to 80 percent, for Apple to take the rest.
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Amazon: Apple's claim of 20% e-book share is suspicious
Metadata is king. I will repeat this as it is important
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Metadata, Not E-Books, Can Save Publishing...
Amazon in a rare evening launch revealed its third-generation Kindle reader. The new hardware is 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter than the model it replaces but is better in nearly every way. It uses a new E Ink Pearl display with 50 percent better contrast and 20 percent faster page turns but can now last for up to a month with wireless off on battery, twice as much as before, and for ...
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Amazon unveils third-gen Kindle, adds $139 Wi-Fi only model
Apple has sold a million iPads in less than a month, a runaway tech success story that is shaking up the tablet computer and netbook marketplace, according to analysts.
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iPad Will Force Netbook, E-reader Makers to Evolve or Die
Today, Stanford University threw its hat into the ring for Google by expanding an earlier agreement with the search giant and agreeing to digitize the University’s library. The move comes amidst legal controversy over the Google Book Search engine. As you may know, Google Book Search is currently embroiled in a mess of legal issues that arose a few years back when book authors, book publishers ...
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Stanford Offers Up Millions of Books in Support of Google Book Search (Mashable)
Amazon in a support document for publishers using its Digital Text Platform has revealed that it will let those selling Kindle books shed the copy protection. Where it had previously been difficult to remove, the digital rights management (DRM) can now be left off of a book or periodical simply by marking a checkbox.
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Kindle publisher program eases dropping DRM (MacNN)
A dead hard drive presents a rare opportunity for reinvention.
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A Life’s Labors Lost, but So What? (New York Times)
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