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Harry Potter eBooks Free For Kindle Prime Subscribers

Amazon has just begun to offer free eBooks from the Harry Potter series through it’s Kindle Lending Library that is available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime members pay $79 a year for free shipping, free access to many of Amazon’s streaming video titles, and free eBook checkouts from the company’s lending library program. Found…

Media Industry Transformation [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Realistic Page Thumbing & Flipping For eBooks

The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has built a prototype for an eBook interface that more realistically mimics the use of real books.

eBooks & Self-Publishing

Publishers Lorena Jones (Chronicle Books) and Kevin Hunsanger (Green Apple Books) and author Larry Jacobson discuss how the eBook and self-publishing revolution are transforming the publishing industry and even the very notion of the book.

Amazon Kindle Fire: The iPad Alternative

45% of low-end committed tablet buyers bought an Amazon Kindle Fire.

Tablet Wars

Apple’s iPad will account for 73.4% of tablet sales worldwide this year.

Rick Richter On Publishing's Paradigm Shift

Rick Richter, the CEO of Ruckus Mobile Media, explains how he identified the digital shift in the publishing industry and decided to get ahead of the wave.

Flexible, Paper-Thin Smart Phone

PaperPhone is a thin film smart phone and interactive paper computer, based on a 3.7″ flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display that only uses electricity when it’s refreshed. Thin film sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play MP3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps.

Feature-Length Interactive Book: Our Choice by Al Gore

Mike Matas of Push Pop Press explains and demonstrates the interactive iBook his company designed for Al Gore’s book, Our Choice.

Borders Closing

Borders plans to close its remaining 399 stores and go out of business by the end of September.