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Google Dives Into Online Bookstore Business
MOUNTAIN VIEW (AP) — Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its electronic reader, the Kindle. The long-awaited Internet book store opening Monday...
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Amazon Opens Kindle Bookstore To Other Merchants
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission. The maker of the popular Kindle reading device announced the...
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Tech Report: Amazon’s New Kindle
(KCBS) – Amazon’s newest edition of the Kindle e-book reader is less expensive than the original. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid says the catch is, it has ads. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid...
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Tech Report: Amazon E-Books Outselling Print Books
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Amazon says that for the first time, it’s selling more e-books than printed books. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid said the online retailer is selling 105 Kindle books for...
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Borders Ready To Turn Page On Book Chain’s Final Chapter
PALO ALTO (CBS SF) – The location of one of the last Borders bookstores still open in the Bay Area, directly across from the Apple store on University Ave., seems an obvious answer to why the chain...
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Tech Watch: Amazon Expected To Unveil New Tablet
(KCBS) – Amazon.com is expected to unveil its brand new Android-based tablet at an event in New York on Wednesday, the latest challenger to Apple’s dominant iPad. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley said...
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Amazon Takes Aim At iPad Market With Kindle Models
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday showed off the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet computer, challenging Apple’s iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color,...
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Tech Watch: Amazon Launches Library For E-Books
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Amazon has launched a digital library for Kindle users in which customers can check out free e-books, but with a catch. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley said the library is only...
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Tech Report: Smaller iPad In The Works?
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)– With the success of Amazon’s Kindle, there has been speculation about what Apple will do to strike back. Some analysts are speculating that the company will introduce a 7-inch...
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Tech Report: How To Use That New iPad Or Kindle
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)– With Christmas just past, there are a lot of people out there who may have some new device . . . but not much idea how to use it. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid said he...
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Father’s Day Gift Guide For All Budgets
Photo Credit: Thinkstock Father’s Day is fast approaching, and the variety of possible gifts might seem overwhelming. Don’t fret; CBS Local has done the shopping (or at least the browsing) for you....
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Staples 2nd Major Retailer To Sell Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Staples office supply stores will sell the Nexus 7, a computer tablet that Google designed to compete against the Kindle Fire and iPad. Monday’s announcement makes Staples Inc....
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Amazon Launches Kindle Content Subscription Service For Children
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) - Amazon is launching a subscription service for children’s games, videos and books aimed at getting more kids to use its Kindle Fire tablet devices. Amazon Inc. announced Wednesday...
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Larry Magid: First Flight With New FAA Rules
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — I just arrived in Washington D.C. after my first flight since the FAA changed their rules that allow passengers to keep using their electronic devices during takeoff and landing....
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McDonald’s Opens Up Mid-Market San Francisco Office To Lure Tech-Savvy Talent
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — McDonald’s is opening up a new location along San Francisco’s Market Street, but not to take your order. Instead, the fast food chain will use the space to recruit the best...
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Amazon To Release $50 Tablet In Time For The Holidays
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Amazon is coming out with a tablet that costs half the price of its current Fire HD, and a fraction of the cost of Apple’s iPad. The device will have a 6-inch screen and a mono...
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13 Perfect Summer Beach Reads For 2021
Summer’s here — and so is the summer beach read. With the extra time on hand, there’s nothing better than picking out a new book to escape into. What makes a great beach read? If summer is about...
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