Topic: Electronic Books
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is looking into allegations that the electronic book industry has violated antitrust law, a top Justice Department official said on Wednesday.In an oversight hearing, the Justice Department's top antitrust official Sharis Pozen, in an roundup of ...
Google expanded its online bookstore to Canada on Tuesday, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale and millions of others for free.Google said it was partnering with a number of Canadian publishers for the launch including McClelland & Stewart, Douglas ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.The British Library 19th ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian e-reading service provider Kobo Inc said on Tuesday it closed a C$50 million ($53 million) investment round aimed at speeding up expansion and new product development.Kobo, was spun off from Canadian retailer Indigo Books & Music in late ...
Google, which opened an online bookstore last month, said Thursday that it has acquired eBook Technologies, a company which makes digital reading products.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are happy to welcome eBook Technologies' team to Google," a Google spokeswoman ...
Finding free eBooks for the Sony reader is easy as long as you know where to look. In fact there is a link to it form the Sony Reader site just above the Library Finder link. com, it isn't for the casual ...
With the startling variety of products offered by online retail giant Amazon. Simply visit the Amazon MP3 Music store, select a single track or an entire album, and enter the e-mail address of the recipient. Once all the requisite info is filled ...
Although Henry James was a 19th century writer, his novels remain popular into the 21st century. Henry James wrote Washington Square in 1880, and the ebook was added to Project Gutenberg in October 2001. Henry James wrote The Portrait of a Lady ...
Depending on who you ask, you can get some very different answers about the overall popularity of ebooks. The largest ebook retailers, like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords, don't publish monthly or annual sales figures for competitive reasons, and only cough ...
The historical novels of Alexandre Dumas were originally written in French, and their popularity made them international classics. The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo are among the Alexander Dumas, pere novels that are available as free ebooks to download ...
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