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Amazon Drops Free Books from Bestseller List

by on May 14, 2010

When Amazon was throwing around numbers of books “sold” around Christmas time, I was annoyed. I mean, can a book be considered sold if it’s free? In my eyes, the answer is a resounding “no”. Sold, to me, means that someone thought a book, eBook, or audio book was desired enough that people were willing [...]

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Audio Book News | Featuring Google Buzz, Amazon and the Twitter Project

by on February 20, 2010

G oogle launched its idea of a social media outlet with Buzz last week. It quickly turned into a fiasco as the program immediately took users’ most frequent email contacts and automatically added them to the person’s stream and publicized lists of followers. Apparently, they thought this would streamline the process used by facebook, where [...]

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Barnes and Noble eBook Readers Ups the Ante While Amazon Goes Global: Will Either Include Audio Books

by on October 11, 2009

Barnes and Noble has partnered with Plastic Logic to create an eBook reader for spring release. Will it rival Amazon’s Kindle even as it hits worldwide distribution? And will either platform begin to include audiobooks as a standard feature? Like its competitors, BN’s reader will be about the size of a trade paperback. It will [...]

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