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Tech Talk Podcast: Why E-Books Will Cost More

The Tech Talk podcast this week includes a discussion of e-book prices and offers some help with updating your BlackBerry.
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Job Postings Hint at Amazon’s Plans for the Kindle

While Amazon goes on a hiring spree for its Kindle division, hiring color LCD managers and Wi-Fi specialists, where does the company take the Kindle from here?
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Is Amazon Building a Superkindle?

Amazon's move to purchase Touchco, a New York start-up that specializes in pressure-sensitive touch technology, could bring with it a Superkindle that competes directly with the Apple iPad.
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Macmillan Books Still Mostly Absent From Amazon.com

While it seems to have surrendered to a publisher's demands for higher e-book prices, Amazon is still keeping many Macmillan books off of its site.
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Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

Amazon removed Macmillan books from its site in a dispute over prices of e-books.
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Three Reasons the iPad Won’t Kill Amazon’s Kindle

The Kindle has met its most formidable competition yet in the Apple iPad, but there are reasons to believe Amazon's e-book business will continue to grow.
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Is Amazon Working Backwards?

Although Amazon's Jeff Bezos says, "We start with the customer and we work backward," a solid core of customers remain unsatisfied with the Kindle.
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News Corp. to Sell Subscriptions on Sony Reader

Sony announced a deal with the News Corporation to deliver news from The Wall Street Journal and other publications to Sony's e-reader devices.
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Borders Invests in Kobo, an E-Book Store

Borders joins the e-book revolution with a new e-reader and e-book site created with a Canadian partner. The bookstore chain is entering a market crowded with other e-reading devices.
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