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As I’ve mentioned before, Amazon is a victim of rampant click-fraud attempts, as scammers out there think they’ve found some new way of banging on the Amazon piñata until some money...

The Boing Boing store has a special going on right now for something called 'The Essential Speed-Reading Bundle.' The bundle has subscriptions to some video bundles which help you learn to...

On Recode, tech analyst Tim Bajarin discusses a vision he had in 1989 for a “computing brick.” Tired of lugging around heavy laptops, he imagined a component containing a CPU and...

Ars Technica UK has an interesting report on an opinion (PDF) issued by Maciej Szpunar, advocate general to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), declaring that e-books should...
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Hugh Howey has an interesting perspective on some of the changes Amazon has been making lately. It starts with a great post Nate Hoffelder made over at The Digital Reader: Amazon...
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In a widely quoted statement during a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, advocated the abandonment of the written word for video. "The...

A new patent granted to Apple, widely reported this week, gives Cupertino's favorite son first dibs on a curved iPhone design that appears to have a completely wraparound curved display. One...

Amazon continues its plans to build a chain of Amazon Books bookstores and Kindle showrooms. Fortune has broken the news that it plans to open a third store in Portland, Oregon,...

I don’t know why it is, but for all that my Kindles claim they download and apply updates automatically, neither my old Kindle Touch nor my more recent 6th-generation Kindle Paperwhite...

I've been following the news coming out of WWDC and it had me wondering how long it's going to take until we move toward a one-OS system. By that, I don't...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.