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Entries Tagged as 'ereaders'

Ebooks in the cloud

December 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ebooks, electronic publishing

Cloud computing has captured the imaginations of computer users with a simple proposition: all of your stuff will always available in the cloud. Independent software vendors have been rolling out solution after solution to take advantage of this twist that adds a new wrinkle to the concept of digital content ownership. Photographs, music, email, banking [...]

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Survey of iPad reader apps

July 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · iPad

Jason Perlow’s Tech Broiler blog offers a nice rundown on the reader apps available on Apple’s iPad, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. Besides the native iBooks reading application (which runs on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch), other major players with apps targeting the tablet include: Kindle for iPad, Barnes & Nobel eReader, Kobo [...]

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