Tag archive: digital books

Announced today, Amazon is testing a new feature of the Kindle that allows readers to directly ask questions to the author of a book. Borrowing a page from Twitter, the program is called @author and allows readers to post questions from the Kindle. Readers can also visit the Amazon Author page to post questions on the Web. Questions are published on the Amazon Author page and readers interested in the author can read all questions. Using the… Read More

One of the nation's top test preparation services, The Princeton Review, announced today the release of a new app for Apple's iPad tablet that students can use to help prepare them for the oh-so-important SAT. Dubbed SAT Score Quest, the app “allows students to select their SAT score goals and take a short assessment designed to diagnose their relative strengths in the Critical Reading, Math and Writing sections of the… Read More

If you’re sick of hearing about e-Readers, then you might want to sit 2010 out. This coming year is going to be a “biggie” for the e-Reader market—more competition, more innovation and more daily tech updates on these literary devices. And it looks like today a new contender in the e-Reading game has stepped into the spotlight. Magazine and newspaper giant Hearst Corp. has been developing a digital content publishing and distribution service… Read More

Microsoft, Yahoo and other challengers have submitted their final arguments to the courts today opposing the class-action settlement that would substantially expand Google’s library of digital books. As we previously reported, the lawsuit and settlement were brought about by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and of other rightsholders of books and inserts by scanning their books, creating an… Read More