With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content..MORE
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Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, was a pioneer in the current wave of electronic book readers, introducing its first Sony Reader model back in 2006. But, it has been overtaken by Amazon.com, whose Kindle e-book reader, introduced in 2007, has become almost synonymous with the category. Now, Sony is out with a much-improved model that [...]
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My “complete Emerson” project would have been prohibitively expensive before e-readers. The print version of the standard 12-volume “Centenary” edition of Emerson’s work, published in 1903-4, runs to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for a complete set. In e-book format, the Centenary is available from Amazon for $10. At Barnes & Noble, which offers Google’s [...]
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