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New petition demands an end to Kindle DRM, faces long odds
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/new-petition-demands-an-end-to-kindle-drm.ars
The Book vs. The Kindle
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| San Francisco bookstore Green Apple Books has put together a series of
| humorous videos that point up the advantages of paper books over Amazon's
| Kindle e-book reader.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/book-vs-kindle
Sony plans $199 U.S. e-reader, takes on Amazon
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| Sony Corp (6758.T) will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book
| reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc
| (AMZN.O) in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.
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| Sony plans to start selling its 5-inch-screen Reader Pocket Edition at
| $199 -- which it called a breakthrough price -- and a larger touchscreen
| reader for $299, through nationwide retail outlets such as Wal-Mart (WMT.N)
| and Best Buy (BBY.N).
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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN0417476620090805
Lucidor 0.6 E-Book Reader Can Handle Web Feeds
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| A deb package is also suitable for Ubuntu and Debian. The source code for
| download off the project page is under GPLv3.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Lucidor-0.6-E-Book-Reader-Can-Handle-Web-Feeds
Recent:
The grumpy editor's e-book reader
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| Sadly, the Kindle is a closed device, so there is little point in trying to
| build and boot this code. That integrity checker device seems likely to get
| in the way. The unhackable nature of the device does not come as a surprise;
| that is how things tend to be done these days. But one can still wish that
| things were different. A user-modifiable Kindle would not just be more
| resistant to Orwellian monitoring and control; it could also be extended in
| ways that Amazon never dreamed of. Maybe it could even get a PDF reader. What
| a fun device that could be.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/342629/
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