Amazon Prime built its popularity by offering subscribers faster free shipping, access to streaming movies and TV shows, and exclusive deals (most noticeably during the company’s Prime Day dealfest, coming again July 16 and 17). But Prime membership includes other perks, too: Everything...
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[ Source: PC World | 2024-07-01 13:28:52 UTC ]
A survey from BookNet Canada found that 58% of audiobook listeners in the country obtained their books from free sources, such as the library or YouTube, while 62% of e-book readers and 51% of print book readers found free sources for their reading material.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
If you're on the market for a new e-reader, Amazon's latest discounts on Kindles may have exactly what you've been looking for at a lower-than-expected price. Key among the sale items is the Kindle Paperwhite, which is down to $100. That's only $5 more than its record-low price, and it's the...
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[ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-24 15:05:13 UTC ]
Amazon Prime built its popularity by offering subscribers faster free shipping, access to streaming movies and TV shows, and exclusive deals (most noticeably during the company’s annual Prime Day dealfest). But Prime membership includes other perks, too: Everything from free ebook offerings to...
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[ Source: PC World | 2022-06-19 11:00:00 UTC ]
Even with their physical locations shuttered, libraries have been an invaluable resource to everyone stuck at home and desperate for new reading material. According to Time Out New York, the NYPL has seen a 864% increase in digital library card sign-ups since March. Still, the loss of the...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-04 15:02:50 UTC ]
Even for people who have lost jobs or income during the coronavirus epidemic, there are books and reading material available online for free.
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[ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-03 09:00:21 UTC ]
Security staff in US airports have reportedly been demanding passengers clear all the reading material out of their hand luggage into a separate bin during safety searches.
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read that shines a light on censorship of reading material in the United States, has begun. This year, the event focuses on diversity.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you're looking for some new reading material on your Kindle or inside Amazon's reading app, you're in luck. The online retailer announced Singles Classics: a collection of essays and stories from "well-known authors" that were published in "top ma...
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[ Source: Engadget | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The subscription service is adding 30,000 recorded books to the half-million ebooks it already offers.Thirteen months ago, San Francisco startup Scribd launched a service which aims to do for books what Netflix does for movies and TV shows. It offers a large-but-not-utterly-comprehensive...
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[ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you've bought quite a library of Kindle books for yourself, you might have a chore scrolling through the lot to find the one you want. Thankfully for Android users, you can now organize your reading material into Collections with a new Kindle app ...
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[ Source: Engadget | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]