No More Pencils, No More Books

Can’t wait for high school calculus iBooks where kids have to triangulate Kindle sales with rubbish percentage data

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Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo)

When we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, demoing at D: Dive Into Media, offers a little more interactivity.
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Amazon’s Stock Fizzles as Holiday Sales Fail to Catch Fire

Amazon’s fourth-quarter results fell short of expectations, despite a robust holiday quarter and the launch of the company’s first tablet computer, the Kindle Fire.
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Amazon and Apple: Two Tablet Makers, Two Drastically Different Fourth Quarters

Amazon is expected to report a giant fourth quarter tomorrow, but the results couldn’t be more different from Apple’s monstrous fourth-quarter results reported last week.
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Japan’s Rakuten Set to Challenge Amazon With Help From Kobo

Who is Amazon’s biggest competitor? It may be a Japanese-based company you’ve never heard of.
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Pew: Nearly One-Fifth of U.S. Adults Own Tablets or E-Readers

Back-to-school season may not have spurred a ton of tablet and e-reader purchases, but the holidays were a different story, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
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Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases

The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.
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Jon Stewart and Siri Debate Foxconn

“The Daily Show” reminds viewers who makes their iPhones and Xboxes.
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Schmidt-Storm Alert: The Google Chairman Didn’t Like Your Question

At today’s “Next Big Thing” event at CES, Google’s executive chairman offered his insight and skirted one final question.
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News Byte

Kindle Store for iPad Dodges Apple’s 30 Percent Rule

Amazon’s Kindle Store is now iPad optimized. The company on Tuesday introduced a new touch-friendly version of its e-book storefront for iPad that allows readers to purchase and read Kindle books whether in Safari with Kindle Cloud Reader, or on Kindle for iPad. Located at amazon.com/iPadKindleStore, the store is a standalone Web app intended to do an end run around an Apple App Store policy that requires content peddlers like Amazon to pay it a 30 percent cut of revenues earned through iOS apps.

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