At this point, our entire lives could be boiled down into a series of apps. Schedules, diets, friends, family, play—it’s all there in a set of brightly colored, easy-to-digest icons that have come to define the way we see ourselves. And though it may be hard to reconcile, even religion is no more than a Google Play or App Store click away. The salvation of your eternal soul is now downloading.
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Most ebook sellers try to lock you into a particular ecosystem. If you don’t mind buying from the same company every time, this isn’t too bad, but you lose the ability to comparison shop, as well as making it difficult to switch apps. Fortunately, there’s a way around this problem.
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If you’re a regular buyer of Kindle ebooks, you want to go check your email; inside, there might just be a little present from Amazon waiting for you. And by "present" I mean "legally mandated compensation to make up for years of price-fixing." Just like Christmas!
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In early October, Scribd launched an ebook service that competes with similar offerings from Oyster, Amazon, and such. Today it has expanded its battleground into Amazon’s territory, making available an … Continue reading
A court in the Netherlands has tossed out a cases against a Dutch man who uploaded more than 5,000 ebooks to The Pirate Bay, saying the matter isn’t criminal and … Continue reading
With the end of 2013 closing in, Apple’s annual App Store and iTunes numbers are in, and among them we find an eclectic mix of apps, albums, movies, books, and other varied content categories. Not surprisingly, “Candy Crush” topped the free iPhone apps chart, beating out Google’s YouTube app and similar, while Macklemore makes a […]
In light of the holiday season, what better time than now to remind ourselves to give thanks for all that we have. Although, in the case of any digital goods you’ve "purchased," maybe don’t add those to the list quite yet. Because remember: You don’t actually own any of it
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Personally I find books nicer and more comfortable to read in its traditional format, but I suppose for the sake of convenience and also for the sake of saving paper, going the digital route is understandable. If you’re a fan of digital books and/or magazines, you might be interested to learn that just like the UK and Finland, Norway has undertaken efforts to begin digitizing its entire library collection, an effort which is expected to take 20 to 30 years to complete.
By doing so, the National Library of Norway will be able to make all sorts of books in its collection searchable and available to read online. The books will range from more recent titles, to even materials that dates back to the Middle Ages, which we reckon will probably need to be handled with the utmost care, which is why it’s a good thing that it will be getting a digital backup as well. The library currently owns equipment which will allow for this and will be adding metadata and storing it in a database that makes it easy for retrieval.
However there is one caveat and that is anyone from Norway, or with a Norway IP address, will be able to access said copyrighted material. The effort began in 2006 and is expected to be completed in the mid 20202s.
National Library Of Norway To Digitize Its Entire Collection Of Books And Materials original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Google’s Play Books now lets you upload any e-book you, ahem, happen to have on any of your Android devices to your central repository. Neat.
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Words cannot express how giddily excited we are by this news: you can finally get Calvin and Hobbes ebooks for the first time. Goodbye, weekend.
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