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Plympton wants to ‘reinvent’ literature with serialised fiction
Charles Dickens would surely approve: almost 200 years after he first published The Pickwick Papers, the serialised novel is back in fashion thanks to Amazon and a new publishing startup called...
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Magazine publishers face competition from themselves in transition to digital
Magazine publishers face stiff competition from their own physical product as they try to migrate readers to digital, Amazon told a meeting of publishers yesterday. The company’s VP for Kindle Content...
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Amazon said to have bought OMAP chip line sending smartphone rumours into orbit
The ever persistent rumours that Amazon is to launch its own smartphone have ramped up a notch with reports that the company has bought Texas Instruments’ mobile-focused OMAP chip line. The unconfirmed...
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The Walking Dead official magazine released for iPad, Nook and Kindle Fire
The official magazine of hit TV series The Walking Dead has been released for iPad, Nook and Kindle Fire, as well as via US newsstands. The Walking Dead, The Official Magazine features an inside look...
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DC Comics agrees digital deal, boasts of sales
DC Comics has agreed deals to sell monthly comics in the Kindle, iBookstore and Nook Book stores, after experiencing a near 200% rise in digital sales over the past year. Previously the publisher’s...
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Amazon hails Black Friday Kindle sales in UK (without figures)
Amazon has trumpeted strong sales of its Kindle devices in the UK last week, although in characteristic fashion, it’s not saying how many of them it actually shifted. “In response to strong customer...
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Siri for Kindle, anyone? Amazon buys Ivona
Amazon has bought Ivona, the Poland-based company which provides text-to-speech technology for its Kindle devices. The move has, inevitably, brought talk of a Siri for Kindle, building on the rather...
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Amazon debuts Send to Kindle button for websites
This is simple, but potentially significant for web publishers: an official Send to Kindle button launched by Amazon to fuel more article-reading on Kindle devices and apps. The Washington Post, Time...
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Goodreads not closing (yet) despite Amazon acquisition
Amazon sprang a pre-Easter surprise on the e-books world by announcing plans to acquire social recommendations startup Goodreads. The deal is expected to close at some point in the second quarter of...
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Updated Kindle app brings e-books to blind and partially-sighted
Amazon has updated its Kindle app for iOS to open up e-books for blind and partially-sighted people. The update brings the app into line with Apple’s accessibility features, using the built-in...
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