eBooks top Monday’s news this week as Amazon and Barnes and Noble announce price cuts for their popular eBook Readers the Nook and Kindle, respectively.
Learn how sites like eBay and Amazon secure the data that you send when you buy things from them: Public Key Cryptography. This video offers a nice overview of how it works:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the much-anticipated large-screen Kindle e-reader Wednesday at the downtown Pace University. Called the Kindle DX, the new device is geared toward readers of personal and professional documents, newspapers, and magazines–and textbooks, a potentially huge target market. The debut of the bigger Kindle wasn’t exactly a secret: rumors of a [...]
Policy change, personal agenda or a computer glitch? Over the weekend there has been much speculation over why gay and lesbian content previously being listed in the both the best seller and search algorithms would suddenly become blacklisted? Pushing aside everyone’s personal thoughts and opinions on the matter, there remains the questions as to the [...]
[Source: CNET News] MobileRead.com posted a letter this week that Amazon.com apparently sent regarding alleged copyright violations. This is an excerpt. When President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law 11 years ago, he predicted it will “protect from digital piracy the copyright industries that comprise the leading export of the United States.” The [...]
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