- 6/30/12 /
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American Women Love a Dark-Haired European Hero
According to E-reader data.
Kindle
- 12/8/11 /
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Sloane Crosley on Her New Essay for Amazon and Almost Dying on a Mountain While Having Her ‘Lady Times’
"I don’t fool myself into thinking this is Into Thin Air. This is a funny, lighter version of Into Thin Air."
- 9/29/11 /
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Vulture Bytes: IMDb’s Movie-Trivia App and a Guide to Speaking Wookie
Plus: the latest Kindles and a lot of new music.
- 9/22/11 /
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Vulture Bytes: A Hulu Plus Alternative and Free McSweeney’s for the iPhone
Plus: a hub for long-form journalism, e-books in the library, and gloves that control your iPod by remote.
- 5/26/11 /
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Vulture Bytes: Piano and Guitar Hacks
Instapaper for video, a gadget that adjusts your guitar knobs, the easiest way to learn piano, and the new Nook.
- 4/14/11 /
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Vulture Bytes: Listening in on Random Strangers
Panoramic camera gear, moody covers of indie-folk songs, and a cheaper Kindle.
- 12/9/10 /
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The Vulture Gift Guide
Rounding up gifts for everyone on your list, from the gadget junkies to Sondheim fanatics to wannabe Mad Men.
- 7/20/10 /
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E-Books, Making Hardcover Books Look Expensive
And thus, outselling them handily.
- 12/10/09 /
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E-Book Cannibalism Pushes Publishers Toward Hardcover-Only Releases
When publishers release e-book and hardcover editions of their books simultaneously, believe it or not, the hardcovers sell less.
- 11/3/09 /
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Barnes & Noble Sued Over Nook
This in no way interferes with our wanting one.
- 10/20/09 /
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Barnes & Noble Unveils World’s First Non-Ugly E-Reader
Now here's an e-reader we wouldn't mind being seen on public transportation with.
- 10/9/09 /
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Barnes & Noble to Make E-Reader, Too
As if your bookshelf weren't already totally cluttered with e-readers, Barnes and Noble will release one of its own.
- 7/28/09 /
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Update: Nicholson Baker Runs Up Awesome Set of Expenses For New Yorker Kindle Review
How nervous is 'The New Yorker' about the Kindle? Almost $3,000 worth of nervous!
- 7/20/09 /
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Barnes & Noble Prepping What They Hope Will Be a Kindle-Killer
But it won't be out until sometime next year.
- 7/17/09 /
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Kindle Users Screwed Out of Orwell Novels in Totally Orwellian Way
Even though they were bought and paid for, copies of '1984' and 'Animal Farm' were deleted from Kindles after their publisher reversed its decision to offer them as e-books.
- 5/12/09 /
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How Should the Times Frame Its Next Anti-Kindle Story?
Another day, another anti-Kindle story in the 'Times.' We've helpfully brainstormed a few angles for their next article on the dangers or e-readers.
- 5/8/09 /
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Giant, Newspaper-Saving Kindle Can’t Pronounce President’s Name
The talking robot living inside of the popular e-reader pronounces our president's name "Bay-rack Oh-bamma."
- 5/6/09 /
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Amazon Announces Huge Kindle
Newspapers are saved!
- 5/4/09 /
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Amazon to Announce Huge Kindle
What if you could have the flexibility and convenience of Amazon's successful e-reader in an enormous, unwieldy package?
- 4/27/09 /
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Kindle to Take All the Fun Out of Being Pretentious, Claims the Times
Will the Kindle impair literary snobs' ability to impress strangers by whipping out a copy of 'Ulysses' on the subway?
- 3/4/09 /
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Kindle iPhone Application to Revolutionize Book-Reading, Battery-Draining
In their ongoing effort to eradicate every single job in publishing, Amazon last night announced plans to sell e-books books for the iPhone.
- 2/9/09 /
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Will the New Kindle Make for Amazon’s iPhone Moment?
Kindle 2 is really a kind of thought experiment, asking how many "serious readers" are left.
- 2/9/09 /
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New Kindle Slightly Less of an Eyesore
You still won't confuse it for an Apple product, though.
- 9/9/08 /
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Possible Kindle Killer Announced
California company Paper Logic debuted its new e-reader yesterday, and it's straight out of Hill Valley circa 2015.
- 11/19/07 /
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Amazon.com Invents an iPod You Can Read
This morning, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced the details of Kindle, the company's new e-book viewer, which is being described as an "iPod for reading."