Without lots of titles, consumers have little interest in spending hundreds of dollars on an e-book device.
This announcement furthers Kobo's goal of delivering any book on any device.
Kobo's vision is to deliver any book on any device and is a strong voice in the eBook industry supporting open standards for eBooks and eReaders.
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Borrowers can keep a book for as long as they like, but when they borrow a new title, the previously borrowed book automatically disappears from their device.
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Once they choose a book, customers can choose to "Send to Kindle" and will be redirected to Amazon.com to login to their Amazon.com account and the book will be delivered to the device they select via Wi-Fi, or can be transferred via USB.
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The new device features an improved default book layout and makes it easier to organize and find books.
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Similarly, he says, hackers can write short programs to access a device's internal phone book, initiate or respond to a call, or do whatever else a legitimate user could do.
Nearly half said they would be "very" or "somewhat" likely to borrow an e-reading device that came loaded with a book they wanted.
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Apple's influence helped prompt the U.S. Justice Department in April to sue the device maker and a handful of book publishers for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for e-books.
Do you just click a book, download it and drag it to your device?
Aradigm's AERx device is the size of a paperback book and uses liquid insulin packets.
From its description, the device aims for all three reading segments: book, newspapers and magazines.
Nowhere has the debate between specialized device versus multi-purpose device been clearer than in the e-book market.
We can choose between dedicated devices that are specialized for a single task such as book reading or music, or we can buy a device that does it all.
Rather than write a number of separate articles, I plan to periodically release an updated e-book that you can download to your tablet or other device and read at your leisure.
The Kindle is a terrific device that provides convenience of easy and immediate book purchases, lighter weight than hardbacks for the road warriors, one-click purchasing from almost anywhere and really comfortable viewability.
Amazon had been hoping to target the market with its 9.7-inch screen Kindle DX e-book reader, for example, but schools said the device wasn't sufficiently interactive and lacked basics such as page numbers and color graphics.
Some library patrons reported waiting lists for popular e-books, or that the library e-book wasn't offered in a format compatible with their device.
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Amazon Prime members also get access to unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes and access to tens of thousands of books to borrow for free, as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates from a Kindle device.
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Customers can check out a Kindle book from their local library and start reading on any generation Kindle device or free Kindle app for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry or Windows Phone, as well as in their web browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
As we prepare to land, my seatmate neatly tucks the little device away into his shoulder bag like it was a paperback book.
Since the device first appeared 14 months ago, Amazon's digital book selection has swelled from around 90, 000 books to over 230, 000, far more than are available for competitors like the Sony Reader or the book-reading applications for the iPhone.
An eye-tracking device allowed me to spot Wally in a Where's Wally book - and the page flipped over.
Instead of focusing on the book lovers who bought the first Kindle, Amazon seems intent on creating a device that may actually appeal to a wider, less bookish set of customers.
More recently, Amazon told me I downloaded a book too many times and therefore couldn't read it on a new device, even though it was no longer on the old ones.
The device, which is clipped to a reader's glasses, buzzes when a book is brought too close to the face.
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Amazon's online superstore has become the unlikely stage for 21st-century amateur comedy, where thousands of customers have submitted reviews for products ranging from the self-explanatory explanatory book "How to Avoid Huge Ships" to the Hutzler 571 banana slicer, a yellow plastic banana-shaped device that cuts bananas into even slices.
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