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Consumers snap up Stephen King e-book
News Spines are tingling across the book industry over Stephen King's latest story, a not-quite novel experiment in digital publishing that is shaping up as a major test of the mass consumer appeal of e-books.
E-book devices yet to hit bestseller's list
News E-books are a tough sell, Gemstar-TV Guide International's chief executive told analysts this week, saying his company has outsold all of its competitors combined by moving just 60,000 reading devices since late last fall.
E-book devices yet to hit bestseller's list
News At a conference this week, Gemstar boasts that it has sold more e-book devices and titles than anyone else combined but admits the market for e-books has yet to become a blockbuster.
Will business users bite on Windows 7?
News Microsoft officials have shifted the Windows 7 marketing machine to the business side of things.
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Windows 7 gets down to business
News Microsoft talks about what it's doing to try to make enterprises more jazzed about the new Windows than they were with Vista.
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Oracle's Ellison grants broad access in book deal
News Oracle's Lawrence Ellison will allow unfettered access to company board meetings and other internal activities as part of his book contract with publisher Simon & Schuster.
Simon & Schuster offers Net-only Stephen King novel
News Stepping up its online distribution efforts, publisher Simon & Schuster has tapped e-merchandiser SoftLock to sell Stephen King's latest novel exclusively over the Internet.
Simon & Schuster to test appeal of online books
News Testing the market for e-book sales, Simon & Schuster will unveil a plan tomorrow to let consumers download chapters of books by best-selling authors such as Stephen King and Mary Higgins-Clark in exchange for donations to charity.
Horrors for publishing industry: King e-book cracked
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Horrors for publishing industry: King e-book cracked
News Hackers have cracked into the software used to encrypt Stephen King's electronic book and have posted illegal copies of the text online, stoking fears in the publishing industry that intellectual property is still far from safe on the Net.
HP, SAP unite to bolster computer performance
News Hewlett-Packard is adding business software heavyweight SAP to its new alliance that promotes better computer systems performance.
Viacom, CBS reportedly close to merger
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Barnesandnoble.com invests US$20 million in e-book site
News E-publishing is quickly becoming a best-selling story. Barnesandnoble.com said yesterday it is investing US$20 million in MightyWords, a unit of Fatbrain.com, which allows consumers to download digital versions of books to a personal computer.
The budding e-book controversy
News Former Random House exec Michael Mellin warns that his former employer is stretching the definition of the word "book" in order to justify a grab of author's rights.
Adobe adds features to e-book software
News Adobe Systems, which makes graphics and publishing software, released two products Monday designed to make electronic books as convenient as their paper and ink counterparts.
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