Amazon launches bursary for female tech students

Amazon has launched a new programme to help young women from less advantaged backgrounds begin careers in innovation and technology. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Albuquerque Publishing Company launches Atex Advertising

The Albuquerque Publishing Company – the advertising sales, production and distribution agent for New Mexico’s largest and most read newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal – is live with Atex Advertising.  The Atex syst ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N to launch tablets, Waitrose, Sainsburys to sell Nook

Barnes & Noble has announced it is to launch two tablets simultaneously in the UK and the US... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Going Beyond E-Books, Barnes & Noble Nook Launches Digital Video Store

Barnes & Noble Nook is ramping up its digital media offerings with a new video-download and rental service. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury launches Indian arm

Bloomsbury is expanding internationally, with the launch of Bloomsbury India today (21st... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trade gears up for Rowling launch

Booksellers are gearing up for the release of J K Rowling’s new novel next Thursday (27th... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Diller Invests in E-book Venture to Challenge Amazon

IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller, producer Scott Rudin and publishing executive Frances Coady are investing in a book venture that will attempt to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s dominance in the industry. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline launches Eternal Romance imprint

Headline is launching a new digital imprint Eternal Romance, with three paranormal romance novels... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German book chains launch new e-reader

German book chains Weltbild and Hugendubel have reacted swiftly to Amazon's announcement... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book discounts appearing at Amazon following publisher settlement

Wow. Judge Denise Cote certainly knows how to put a spring in the step of mega corporations. Mere days have passed since she ordered HarperCollins to let retailers to set their own ebook prices, and yet already Kindle bestsellers from that publisher are selling for around $9.99 -- in some cases... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SF Chronicle Launches 49ers Digital Magazine

The San Francisco Chronicle launched its 49ers Insider digital magazine last week in advance of the team’s season-opener against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toys R Us to launch US kids’ tablet

Retailer Toys R Us is set to launch a tablet for children in the US, pre-uploaded with a number... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Closer Look At Amazon’s New Kindle Serials: Part Dickens, Part TV

When a slide showing eight book covers popped up in Jeff Bezos’s presentation on Thursday, Jennifer 8. Lee--who was following along on a live blog from New York City--gasped. The books are part of Amazon’s new Kindle Serials format, and she published three of them: Hacker Mom, The Many Lives of... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Changed Reading. Now It Could Change Writing

Throughout its 17-year history, Amazon has helped change the way that books are sold, the format in which they’re read and how they are published. Now it could change how they’re written. In addition to the Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon introduced a subscription book format... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Makes Everything Better

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon announces new devices, including HD Kindle Fire

Amazon's new lineup of devices includes a Kindle Fire tablet with HD and other new features as well as a back-lit e-reader called the Kindle Paperwhite. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Bond launches Whitefox

John Bond, former m.d. of Press Books at HarperCollins, has teamed up with former HarperPress... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serial e-fiction from Amazon

Amazon is planning to take a Charles Dickens approach to publishing with the launch of fiction in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo, Canada's answer to Kindle, debuts latest Android tablet ahead of Amazon

Just hours ahead of Amazon's debut of a new Kindle tablet on Thursday, Kobo, the ebook company that can be thought of as "Canada's Kindle" debuted a new color Android tablet called the Kobo Arc. Kobo Arc is the company's second Android tablet, following up on the Kobo Vox which debuted around... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon unveils $159 7-inch Kindle Fire 2012 with 1GB RAM and 44 percent better performance

Amazon has officially unveiled the 2012 vintage of the Kindle Fire, which is reportedly 44 percent more powerful than its predecessor. The service-orientated slate (as opposed to a gadget, which CEO Jeff Bezos claims nobody wants) comes with a bigger battery, a new processor and 1GB RAM --... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York bookshop launches rescue mission to digitize out-of-print sci-fi titles

Singularity & Co aims to rescue near-extinct 20th century sci-fi titles to ensure they still exist in the next one. Established from a Kickstarter campaign, the small team has already digitized and published A Plunge Into Space and The Torch, both with new cover art, while its third title... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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