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Apple's Eddy Cue offers short answers in e-book antitrust trial

Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.

By Joab Jackson | 13 June, 2013 19:07

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, antitrust, e-commerce, hardware systems, legal, tablets, e-readers, internet, iPad, Apple, consumer electronics
Amazon launches Kindle tablet and e-reader in China

After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country.

By Michael Kan | 07 June, 2013 11:10

Tags: consumer electronics, amazon.com, hardware systems, tablets, e-readers, Android tablets
Apple under the gun as US e-book trial starts

Apple appears to face an uphill battle as it goes to trial Monday in New York on e-book price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government.

By Marc Ferranti | 03 June, 2013 03:27

Tags: Apple, antitrust, consumer electronics, legal, industry verticals, e-readers
Sony to launch super-thin, flexible e-reader for universities

Sony will soon launch a flexible e-reader device that is less than 7mm thick and weighs 358 grams, targeted for use in university classrooms.

By Jay Alabaster | 13 May, 2013 10:22

Tags: consumer electronics, Components, e-readers, sony, displays
Amazon's new China app store could help pave way for Kindle products

Amazon.com has updated its mobile app store to include support for its Chinese customers, in a sign that the U.S. company could be preparing to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets in the country.

By Michael Kan | 06 May, 2013 08:19

Tags: mobile applications, consumer electronics, amazon.com, hardware systems, tablets, mobile, e-readers, Android tablets

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Tutorials about e-readers

Copy Kindle notes and bookmarks to your PC

If you're a Kindle owner, you've probably discovered the device's enviable ability to bookmark pages, highlight passages, and add notes (a.k.a. annotations).

By Rick Broida | 17 August, 2010 06:12

Tags: e-books, consumer electronics, amazon.com, kindle, e-readers

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Features about e-readers

Five reasons Amazon e-books are outselling hardcovers

Are you still holding out to see what happens with this whole ebooks "fad" before deciding whether to embrace it for your business? Well, the times they are a changin' and there are a variety of reasons that ebooks are outpacing printed books.

By Tony Bradley | 21 July, 2010 02:59

Tags: e-books, consumer electronics, amazon.com, apple ipad, kindle, e-readers, Office Hardware
Why e-Readers Are a Worthy Business Investment

A Silicon Valley product development consulting firm called the Nielsen Norman Group (not to be confused with the Nielsen ratings company) published a study last week comparing reading performance with a book to reading with an e-reader. The results--which are suspect because there were only 24 people in the test group--find that users of the Kindle 2 and iPad read 10.7 percent and 6.2 percent slower, respectively, than on paper or with books.

By PC World Staff | 08 July, 2010 07:23

Tags: apple ipad, consumer electronics, amazon kindle, ebook, e-readers
Color E-readers a hit at book fair, to be sold like handsets

Taiwanese e-reader makers jockeyed to show off new technologies at the Taipei International Book Exhibition over the weekend and said the emerging model for the devices is to sell them as part of a content bundle.

By Dan Nystedt | 01 February, 2010 21:33

Tags: Prime View International, amazon kindle, JinYong Reader, taiwan, BenQ, Greenbook, e-readers, Koobe, Netronix
Asus 'Eee Reader' to join e-reader fray, says report

Computer maker Asus may be getting ready to launch an e-reader that would mimic the traditional book, be in full color and come loaded with a variety of innovative features.

By Ian Paul | 08 September, 2009 05:21

Tags: e-books, asus, e-readers