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Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. The world's largest online retailer said Thursday that it had agreed...Tags: Hector Tobar, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Services and Shopping, Sociology
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Otis Chandler
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Google+, Amazon.com Inc., Science and Technology, Steve Jobs, Otis Chandler
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Amazon creates 'Send to Kindle' button for quickly saving articles
Amazon.com has introduced a way for users to quickly save and send news articles as well as other items to their Kindle devices for later, off-line reading. "The Send to Kindle Button lets people easily send that content to their Kindle so they can it...
Tags: BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Jeff Bezos, Space Programs, Bodies of Water, Neil Armstrong, Atlantic Ocean
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Google launches Keep, a note-taking app for Android devices
Google has released Keep, a convenient note-taking app for Android smartphone and tablet users. The app, which is available now on Google Play, is designed to make it easy for users to take notes and sync them across their mobile devices and on the...
Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Google Play, Apple iPhone, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Three independent bookstores sue Amazon, publishers
Three independent bookstores have filed a class action suit against Amazon and the six major publishers, accusing them of creating a monopoly in e-book sales. The complaint, filed in New York on Feb. 15, focuses on digital rights management, known as DRM....Tags: The Huffington Post, Google+, Services and Shopping, New York City, Media Industry
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Cake Makers David and Vivie Glass Roll Out A Cookbook, Memoir
The Hartford CourantOver three decades, Vivie Glass quietly created and developed the recipes that built a brand favored by confection connoisseurs around the country. Now the baking genius behind her husband David Glass' cake empire is telling the story how she and...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Environmental Issues, Whole Foods Market, Chocolate Truffles, Water
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Friends of the Libraries: Lessons from the Panama Canal
For some time after my husband read the book "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914", by David McCullough, and recommended it to me as a "very readable" book, I have had it in my pile of reading material. But the very size...Tags: Libraries, Environmental Issues, Authors, Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Julia Child: The comic book
Julia Child has truly become one of the immortals of American culture. There's a new comic book out retelling her life story. "Female Force: Julia Child" is the latest in a "female empowerment series" of comic books presented by Bluewater Productions,...
Tags: Julia Child, Hillary Clinton, Google Play, Literature, Carrie Fisher
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Lincoln native publishes first novel, titled 'Gabriel'
jbrummett@amnews.comWriting a novel is about as far away from nursing as it gets but that’s just what Tina Pollick has done. Her first novel, “Gabriel,” a paranormal romance, was published Jan. 23. Pollick said she started writing just last summer....Tags: Nursing, Sony Corp., Health and Medical Professionals, Book
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How to give an e-book
Giving an e-reader user a printed book is like presenting him a manual typewriter. It's a nice gesture, but the book will most likely gather dust while he whips through the newest best-sellers on his device. Luckily for gift-givers, almost all booksellers...
Tags: LEGO Group, Apple iTunes, Chicago Tribune
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