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]]> http://www.teleread.com/nook/nook-hd-as-an-android-tablet-contender-part-2-hd-vs-nexus-7/feed/ 7 How Has the Tablet Changed Your Life? Your Business? Your General Disposition? http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/ http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:10:23 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=83428 It’s hard to believe it’s already/only been three years since Apple introduced its category defining iPad. On the one hand, it seems like only yesterday. On the other hand, for those of us with tablet computers of one stripe or another, it’s hard to imagine life before our new constant companions—in the same way those [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/feed/ 2 Will Smaller Tablets Outsell the Big Slates in 2013? http://www.teleread.com/tablet/will-smaller-tablets-outsell-the-big-slates-in-2013/ http://www.teleread.com/tablet/will-smaller-tablets-outsell-the-big-slates-in-2013/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:42:10 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=80438 Apple famously refused to sell a 7″ tablet for many years, then reversed that notion and came out with the iPad mini last year and it sold very well. iPad mini and its many cousins have solidified the smaller tablet market. Display Search reported yesterday that in the first month of 2013, tablet PC panel shipments [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/new-york-times/new-york-times-now-available-on-flipboard-for-android-and-kindle-fire/feed/ 0 Time will create authorial greatness in the e-book era http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/time-will-create-authorial-greatness-in-the-e-book-era/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/time-will-create-authorial-greatness-in-the-e-book-era/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:54:24 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=79813 Love or hate e-books, so many people at least have an opinion on the topic. Rich Adin at the blog An American Editor writes, “Are eBooks the Death Knell of Authorial Greatness?“ Adin is an e-book reader, but he seems worried that authors may never be considered great again because of the physical absence of books. “Part of [...]

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