Get ready to drink deep from the fountain of knowledge. As he's done in years past, Microsoft senior sales excellence manager Eric Ligman has compiled a veritable flood of free Microsoft ebooks and other resources, offering up nearly 300 gratis guides for your reading pleasure.To be fair, most of the materials—which we first noticed thanks to BetaNews—are basic guides, sales materials, or deeply technical tomes delving into the arcane arts of, say, Azure, Sharepoint, and Microsoft Dynamics. Valuable resources, sure, but maybe not consumer-friendly resources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
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The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All hail the ebook! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection. Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 companies across the trade... Continue reading at Engadget
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From time to time, we see movie studio Warner Bros. bring forth ways to give its oldies-but-goodies a longer life span. On this occasion, Warner's launching a novel eBook series titled "Inside the Script." The new release will give movie buffs a deeper look into a handful of the studio's films,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft's $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and digital book subsidiary makes perfect sense, according to experts at Wharton and elsewhere. Continue reading at Knowledge@Wharton
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Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Justice Department's antitrust suit over eBook price fixing has is as deeply befuddling as it is important to the future of publishing. Continue reading at The Atlantic
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The deal with the maker of the popular Nook ebook reader shows that Microsoft, like Apple, understands that ecosystems are the key to success. Continue reading at PC World
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Microsoft is jumping into the fast-growing ebooks market by investing US$300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and university business, as it looks to unlock Amazon.com and Apple's grip on the exploding tablet computer market. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An infusion of money from Microsoft Corp. sent Barnes & Noble Inc.'s stock zooming Monday, as the software giant established a way to get back into the ebooks business. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Microsoft seems to have found an open window back into the ebook business, closing the door on an ongoing patent dispute with its new partner. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Microsoft has invested $300m in Barnes and Noble, forming “a new subsidiary” of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Coming up first: A Metro-style Nook e-reader app for Windows 8 that will be available to U.S. and international users. Continue reading at PC World
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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook e-reader, gaining a foothold in the fast-growing ebooks market as the bookseller gets more firepower to compete against Amazon.com's Kindle and Apple Inc's iPad. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The software company announced it will invest $300 million in the bookseller's ebook and college bookstore ventures Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Barnes & Noble Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to create a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will house the digital and college businesses of the bookseller and include a Nook application for Windows 8.The companies said Monday that they are exploring separating those businesses... Continue reading at Crains New York
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A rare week gives us three celeb memoirs by boldface names: Sissy Spacek, Gregg Allman, and Dan Rather are telling all. Turns out, fame is great and all, but what stars really want is a book deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Booksellers Association's talks with ebook platform providers have intensified after... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Science fiction publisher Tor UK decides to drop anti-piracy restrictions from its electronic books. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost a year after it was first announced 3M's Cloud Library ebook lending service is getting a proper rollout. Introduced today at a beta site in St. Paul, the system is now ready for its kiosks, e-readers and apps to hit the hands and eyes of library patrons. The touch-based Discovery... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal has defended Apple's Ebook Strategy saying it is not only good for Apple, but good for consumers and publishers as well. Continue reading at PC World
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