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On The Cheap: Kobo Mini Gets Mini Price

Yoni Gross — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:37:07 +0000

Ebook readers aren’t quite the hot item they used to be ever since the 7-inch tablet market dropped prices to the sub-$200 range, but they still have great advantages. Text you can read in direct sunlight, outrageous battery life, and at a significantly cheaper price than a more versatile, all-in-one device. Amazon’s most basic Kindle, […]

Kindle Worlds: What’s The Harm?

Techcitement — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:47:24 +0000

Guest writer Greg Hatcher has been a professional magazine writer and editor for 21 years and currently writes the weekly Fridays With Hatcher feature, now in its eighth year at Comics Should Be Good. In addition to that, he teaches writing for high school and middle school students as part of the Young Authors program […]

Studies Claim Students Prefer Traditional Paper Textbooks Over E-texts

Rick Diehl — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:05 +0000

According to the sales statistics of Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon, everybody loves e-books. The economically-priced readers; the ability to store and transport an entire library effortlessly and less expensively; the added benefits of highlighting, annotation, simplified note-taking, searchable text, and inserted ancillary materials. It’s no wonder e-books are popular. With the rapidly […]

Changing The Guard, Libraries In The 21st Century

Rick Diehl — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:28:39 +0000

Today, in Bexar County, home to San Antonio, Texas’s lovely second city, they’re getting ready to open the United States’s first fully electronic public library. The new system will allow patrons to download thousands of e-texts from their homes. This digital library will also have a bright, shiny new high-tech central library branch where […]

Google Causes Loss Of Books, Turns Society Into Man-eating Whales

Kacey Samiee — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:52:17 +0000

Oh Google, come on. I have to say, I’m a bit disappointed in your behavior. I know it’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission, but I have a hard time picturing a group of Google executives sitting in a meeting and saying, “We’ll just do it, and see if they notice”, […]