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A 14.1-inch SXGA+ display from Toshiba uses a mere 2.7 watts, compared to 3.5-4.4 watts for a typical display. Meanwhile Sony is out with a trio of new Clie handhelds....

Wired has profiled one of the best trend-spotters in high-tech, publisher Tim O'Reilly. In character, O'Reilly Associates is among the first publishers to use ThoutReader, from which OpenReader will emerge. (Via...

Details from Blogger News Network The Readers Retreat site includes books and short stories. Genres: drama, historic/romance, horror, how-to, romance, sci-fi, suspense-thrillers. Submission info here. Authors' terms: 37.5-50 percent royalties. Related: MobileRead's...

Pirates do spread around PDF books online. But HTML seems to be the preferred format among the most tech-savvy sharers of illegal files. So says a friend of mine. True?...

Here, via eBook Community List.

The ibiblio logo on the home page is premature, but this is the week for a move to ibiblio servers at the University of North Carolina. You may encounter interruptions...

Details via Los Angeles Times: LeapFrog, which makes LeapPad electronic books, is seeking $78 million in damages on a claim that Mattel's Fisher-Price unit infringed its patent on books in which children...

Will Microsoft really be more open to standards? And might this actually mean something for OpenReader? I'm skeptical, but you never know. Microsoft's Dick Brass and Steve Stone originally said...

Slashdot readers have plenty of opinions on the above question, including a dissection of the Gemstar debacle. At least one of the Slashdotters speaks highly of the Dell Axim PDA,...

"...talking about technology with patrons alerts them to the current state of libraries. 'Hey, we