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Sep 28 2011: Amazon has unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet that will retail for $199.
"We're building premium products at non-premium prices," says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
The specifications are lower than high-end tablets. While the Kindle Fire has a dual-core...
Sep 26 2011: Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women's rights and transparent government - the first African woman to get the award.
She ...
Sep 26 2011: Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that postpones new sales taxes rules that would have affected online purchases in California, granting more time for traditional and online retailers to lobby Congress for a national standard on the high-stakes issue.
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Sep 22 2011: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused Canongate of "old-fashioned opportunism and duplicity" over it publishing of his memoir today without his approval (Assange previously signed a contract with Canongate that he then tried to cancel, despite having received a £...
Sep 21 2011: A committee of booksellers and librarians will select the 25 books for the inaugural World Book Night in U.S., to be held next April 23.
World Book Night will involve 40,000 people giving away a million copies of 25 titles, which will "celebrate the love that we and ...
Sep 21 2011: The number of Americans using an e-book reader has almost doubled during the last 12 months to 15%, according to a new Harris Poll survey.
The survey also revealed one in six Americans who do not have an e-reader intend to buy one during the next six months. This may...
Sep 21 2011: Amazon and library e-book vendor OverDrive announced this morning its plan to allow library lending via the Kindle and Kindle app is now live. The service, which will be available at some 11,000 libraries across the U.S. at launch, enables libraries to expand their e-...
Sep 19 2011: Readers from across the United States and around the world are demonstrating their support for free speech by participating in a virtual read-out of banned and challenged books that will culminate during the 30th annual Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1), the only ...
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