Although it’s rather unusual for something made almost entirely out of leather to cause a technical problem, Amazon seem to have found a way with their own leather cases for the Amazon Kindle. The problem, although not confirmed by Amazon themselves apparently revolves around the metal hooks. The hooks, which are meant to conduct electricity [...]

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Google has placed itself into the eBook market, with the new Google eBookstore. Along with this release, Google have released an eBooks Web Reader for PC reading (which has browser-based access to a cloud-store), as well as eReader apps for both their own OS Android (example shown below) and Apple’s iOS users. The new store from [...]

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Amazon’s share price has dropped by 8% since the launch of Apple’s iPad and Apple have since seen their share price rise by 13% – this is all to do with E-Reader’s and the ability to sell consumers books, guides,magazines at a substantial profit compared to there physical counterparts. Amazon announced today that their app [...]

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In the spirit of giving, hackers have claimed success in cracking copyright protections on Amazon’s Kindle eReader, allowing eBooks to be exported to other devices. The eBooks will take the form of a pdf file, allowing it to be easily shared around the Kindle community and other file supporting devices. Israeli hacker Labba is taking [...]

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