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Elena Kagan Says Learning the Ropes at Supreme Court Has Been a 'Whirlwind'
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyIn her first interview since joining the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan tells C-SPAN that she uses a Kindle for the "endless reading" of briefs, has "extraordinary respect" for Chief Justice John Roberts' penetrating exploration of issues before the court, and that acclimating to the highest court in the land is "like drinking out of a fire hose. . . . It's always something new, something different, a lot to learn." The interview, conducted last month, will air on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., and 12:30 a.m. Dec. 20. In excerpts released by C-SPAN, the former dean of the ...
Apple iPad to Overtake Amazon Kindle as Top E-Reader, Survey Finds
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- When it comes to electronic books, a new king is about to be crowned. According to a new survey by the research group ChangeWave, Apple's fast-selling iPad will soon overtake the Amazon Kindle to become the country's most-used device for consuming e-books. In part, the calendar is also helping account for the changing of the guard. "The Apple iPad will be the biggest beneficiary of the expanding e-Reader market this holiday season," ChangeWave said in its report. Here are some of the survey's interesting findings: Apple's share of the e-reader market has doubled since ...
'Pedophile's Guide' Sparks Angry Criticism of Amazon
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- The trend on Twitter today was anger. A group of Twitterati is upset at Amazon.com for selling a Kindle edition of a book called "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure." With all of Twitter's 190-million-plus users as an audience, they let their feelings be known -- in 140 characters or less. "Dear @Amazon," said one microblogger, using a function that directs the message toward Amazon's own Twitter account, "Free speech doesn't include a written manual on how to exploit, molest and rape our children." Amazon did not respond to a message from AOL News seeking comment. ...
Opinion: Will New Kindle Kill the Book?
By Louise Marley - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- To the delight of eager e-book readers, Amazon's new Kindle started shipping this week. But as the popularity of e-books climbs, so does the corresponding anxiety among book lovers about the future of traditional hardcover or paperback books. To some readers, the announcement by Amazon.com that Kindle sales have outstripped hardcover sales by nearly 50 percent sounds like the death knell of the "real" book -- that physical object they love to hold in their hands and shelve in their homes. Amazon head Jeff Bezos has also said, in an interview in USA Today, that he believes ...
Kindle, Nook Slash Prices to Counter Apple's Latest Move
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe war between the e-reader platforms is heating up. Amazon.com announced today it was cutting the price of its 3G-enabled Kindle from $259 to $189, Mashable reports. Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble has not only slashed its 3G Nook from $259 to $199, but it has also debuted a Wi-Fi-only version for just $149. The moves come on the same day that Apple releases its iOS 4 software upgrade for the iPhone, which allows users to access the company's free iBooks application to purchase book titles. In conjunction with the brisk sales of Apple's iPad tablet computer, which debuted this spring, iBooks ...
E-Readers Are Rock Stars, but My Heart Belongs to Hardcovers
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyFor my mother's 79th birthday later this month, her four children are going to give her an e-reader. We have yet to decide which one to give her, but she's very keen to join this trend. As a frequent traveler, and avid reader, she finds that she's always lugging 12 hard-cover books wherever she goes (often London to visit me!). So she'd like to lighten her load. Apparently, several of her friends already have e-readers and they are all thrilled with them. I have mixed feelings about this present. On the one hand, as someone who -- by her own admission -- barely has running water and ...
E-Books Outsell Paper on Amazon for Christmas
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 28) -- Ready or not, here comes the future of reading. Amazon announced today that it sold more e-books this Christmas than it did the paper variety, a first in its history. In an interview this month with The New York Times, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos predicted the sea-change, stating, "It won't be too long before we're selling more electronic books than physical books." On Christmas day, at least, that vision came true. But there's a certain logic to the finding that e-books outsold paper ones on Christmas. If, as Amazon claims, the Kindle was its biggest gift this holiday season, ...
Can E-Readers Stop the Demise of Book Reading?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 11) -- For decades, the number of Americans who read books has been in decline. But with the emergence of hand-held devices such as Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook and the Sony Reader, that sad story may be heading for a happier, more literate ending. According to recent findings released by the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly 46 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 do not read a single book in a year that isn't required by work or school. That dismal figure is up 11 percent from 1992, when the NEA and the U.S. Census Bureau started measuring book reading. ...
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