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November 6, 2009 :: "That’s what the latest research report by Flurry says. From August 2008 to August 2009, ,ore games were released than any other category. However, in September this seemed to change and in October one in every five new apps was a book. Flurry feels that Apple is positioned to take market share from the Kindle and predict that the iPhone will become a significant contributors in this space..."

November 4, 2009 :: "eReaders and eBook players like the Kindle 2, Kindle DX and Nook are suddenly enjoying unprecedented support from book publishers, authors and retailers alike..."

October 14, 2009 :: "Writing and reading — from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines — are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones. Traditional book publishers are putting out “vooks,” which place videos in electronic text that can be read online or on an iPhone. Others are republishing old books in electronic form. And libraries, responding to demand, are offering more e-books for download. Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or a

October 20, 2009 :: "The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts - and give Google a little food for thought. Dubbed BookServer, the open platform is meant to provide a standard means for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and individual authors to serve texts onto laptops, netbooks, smartphones, game consoles, and specialized ereaders a la the Amazon Kindle

October 14, 2009 :: "The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is launching the Washington State Student Completion Initiative aimed at dramatically increasing community college completion rates. The initiative, one of the most comprehensive completion efforts in the country, will launch new programs and expand successful pilot programs aimed at addressing key barriers to student success ... There are 80 high-enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses that most students mus

October 2009 :: "... Thanks to a pilot effort called the Community College Open Textbook Project that the Foothill-De Anza Community College District created in spring 2009 with the support of the Hewlett Foundation, Kostyanovsky was able to make her college education significantly more affordable. She went online to a site called Connexions at Rice University – another Hewlett grantee – where she could read, annotate, and print whatever she wanted from Collaborative Statistics, by Barbara Illowsky and Susa

Ocotber 12, 2009 :: "The eBook reader space continues to get more crowded with Amazon’s Kindle 2, Sony and soon Barnes & Noble all jockeying for market share. Now LG, manufacturer of cell phones and LCD TVs is jumping into the eBook reader space with a solar powered device in 2012 that could eventually operate without ever charging from an electrical outlet..."

October 7, 2009 :: "...In Taiwan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to invest NT$2.1 billion (US$64 million) over the next five years, beginning 2009, to set up two to three platforms for downloading Chinese content into e-book readers, enabling 100,000 Chinese-content e-book readers and perhaps create one million readers to boost the island`s e-book revenue beyond NT$100 billion. To raise the number of e-book readers to one million in five years in Taiwan, the MOEA is targeting schools next year-givin