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Kindle users revolt against delays to ebook editions

Angry users of Amazon's e-reader have been dishing out one-star reviews of Game Change in revenge for the unavailability of an electronic edition

Is the Skiff Reader the answer for newspapers?

Web-linked touchscreen tablet that repurposes print content unveiled by Skiff. By Peter Kirwan

CES 2010: The ebook revolution

The tech industry is trying to push traditional publishers to electronic books

Amazon keeps ebook rivals guessing on Kindle sales

Despite vague boasts of record sales, Kindle figures are thought to be lagging behind early years of Apple's iPod

Breakfast briefing: Amazon’s author deal, and Microsoft’s latest spots of bother

A best-selling author has sidestepped the publishing industry by signing a deal that gives Amazon exclusive rights to sell digital version of his books

The US government is after me – and you, if you’re a book blogger

Daniel Kalder: If you get a free book, and don't disclose this 'vested interest' if you blog about it, you are now liable to five-figure fines. Does this make any kind of sense to anybody?

Google digital library plan opposed by Angela Merkel

German chancellor says internet firm's attempt to put every book ever written online is a risk to copyright protection

Book sharing site Scribd rejects claims of copyright infringement

Texan author claims document-sharing website is 'egregious offender' building a business out of flaunting copyright law

Latest Google news service promises publishers money and readers

Web firm Google says Fast Flip pages will give publishers the bulk of ad revenue

Cool-er ‘confident’ it can beat Sony’s e-reader sales in UK

British ebook-store Interead sells 1m of its colourful Cool-er e-readers in its first months

Amazon opposes Google’s plan for world’s biggest online library

Internet retailer calls Google's deal to digitise books 'dangerous' as momentum builds for opposition movement

How Scribd made pages pay

From sheet music to bestselling novels, Scribd.com is much more than just a 'YouTube for documents'

Tweet revenge: literary feuds go short and sharp

Alison Flood: A negative review might once have prompted a stern letter to the editor. Today, the weapon of choice for an angry author appears to be Twitter

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  • Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback
  • Century-old silent film made in New Hampshire found in Japan antique shop
  • Merseyside blaze that killed mother and three children caused by lithium-ion battery
  • High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests
  • AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
  • Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right
  • Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst
  • Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
  • AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades
  • Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
  • Plan for controversial $1.2bn datacentre in Sydney scrapped due to ‘emerging’ regulations
  • ‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie
  • Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper
  • Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
  • Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea
  • ‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
  • Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
  • Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
  • Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
  • Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
  • My Instagram reels addiction has ruined my ability to have a conversation. But can I get it back?
  • ‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children
  • ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
  • NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
  • Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
  • Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
  • ‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
  • Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
  • Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village
  • The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand

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