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    New sites, apps offer loads of digital narratives and other long reads

    [...] It’s projects like the Atavist, the success of Jon Krakauer's best-selling “Three Cups of Deceit” published by Byliner, another new “long reads” company, and the Kindle Singles offerings of nonfiction stories that have started to restore peo...

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    J.K. Rowling's Big Deal

    J.K. Rowling's decision to sell her Harry Potter e-books directly to consumers across every reading device (assuming she can conclude the necessary agreements which, given the stakes, seems inevitable) is a very big deal—in all the meanings of the...

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    More Americans buying e-readers than tablets, study says

    (CNN) -- Ads touting Apple's iPad seem to be everywhere, but e-readers such as Amazon.com's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook are actually more popular with consumers, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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    E-Reader Ownership Doubles in Six Months

    Are books the new killer app?

    A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that e-reader ownership among U.S. adults doubled from 6% to 12% between November 2010 and May 2011. This marks the first time ownership of de...

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    Study: 12 percent of US households own e-reader

    NEW YORK (AP) — A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon's Kindle.

    That's three times the number of households that owned an e-reader just a year ago, pointing to rap...

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