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Jul 22, 2011Washington Post
[...] 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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Jul 19, 2011The Atlantic
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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Jun 28, 2011CNN
(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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Jun 27, 2011Wall Street Journal
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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Jun 27, 2011Associated Press
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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