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Print Pubs, Meet Moving Pictures October 31, 2009 
Hold Esquire's December issue in front of a webcam, and an on-screen image of the magazine pops to life, letters flying off the cover. Shift and tilt the magazine, and the animation on the screen moves accordingly. Robert Downey Jr. emerges out of the on-screen page in 3-D, offering half-improvised shtick on Esquire's latest high-tech experiment for keeping print magazines relevant.
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Chinese Paper Accuses Google of Stonewalling Searchers October 27, 2009 
Google faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute. The online People's Daily book section said the three-day disruption began last Wednesday.
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HP, Amazon Team to Offer Paperback Copies of Rare Books October 21, 2009 
Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books. HP, the world's top seller of personal computers and printers, is teaming up with online retailer Amazon.com to challenge Internet search leader Google in the quirky new market of re-creating digital books as paperbacks.
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Barnes & Noble Aims to Take Down Kindle, by Hook or by Nook October 21, 2009 
It doesn't matter whether Amazon's Kindle has 60 percent market share, or that Sony has its powerful brand backing its Reader. Barnes & Noble wants in on the nascent e-reader market. For reasons not apparent at press time, Barnes & Noble is calling its new electronic reading device the Nook, officially launching it during a late-afternoon Eastern time press event Tuesday in New York City.
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EC Copyright Overhaul Could Spur Google Book Project October 20, 2009 
The European Commission said Monday it may revise copyright law to make it easier for companies like Google to scan printed books and distribute digital copies over the Internet. Such changes would likely include ways to more easily compensate authors and publishers, possibly through a statutory license in which a company would automatically get rights to scanning and would pay royalties to a collective pool.
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Rivals Dogpile on Amazon October 16, 2009 
Jeff Bezos named his company after the longest and largest river in the world. So it's appropriate that the past week has shown just how influential Amazon has become in both the online and offline retail spaces, as competitors and the Seattle-based e-commerce giant threw a series of punches and counter-punches.
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Putting a Price on Historic Footage October 16, 2009 
The following column is brought to you by nostalgia -- the unique kind experienced only by unrepentant newsies approaching a half-century of existence. But have no fear; technology plays a key supporting role, as always. A slow weeknight evening shift at a regional cable TV network prompts some wide-ranging Internet exploration between newscasts.
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Google to Step Into Wholesale E-Book Biz October 15, 2009 
Google is launching a new online service for booksellers next year called "Google Editions," which will let readers buy books and read them on gadgets ranging from cellphones to possibly e-book devices. It's the first foray into charging for books for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which began its Google Books program in 2004, and will put it in competition with Amazon.com's Kindle reader.
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The Wireless Burden: Our Never-Ending Thirst for News October 09, 2009 
There's a perfect storm building in the technology world, and as we know, that world keeps spilling over into that other world -- you know, the one where real people live. This storm will manifest itself in the media, of course, thanks to the forces driving its increasing wind speeds.
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Kindle Seeks to Set the World on Fire October 07, 2009 
Amazon.com on Wednesday announced it is bringing out a new global version of its Kindle 2 e-reader. The company is also cutting the price of the original Kindle 2 from $299 to $259, possibly to gain market share. A global version of the larger Kindle DX is in the works. Except for its connectivity technology, the global version of Kindle is the same as the original six-inch version.
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AP Looks to Profit From Google, Microsoft War October 07, 2009 
The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday. The AP licenses its stories and photographs to many of the Internet's main hubs, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN.
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Amazon Settlement Ends '1984' E-Book Saga October 02, 2009 
Amazon.com has agreed that it won't remove e-books from U.S. users' Kindle electronic readers without their permission, as part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit over the online retailer's deletion of a George Orwell novel from a high school student's e-reader.
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Could an iTablet Rewrite the Book on Publishing? October 02, 2009 
The latest Apple tablet rumor isn't about the hardware specifications of the so-called iTablet; it's about the notion that Apple has been having secret talks with newspaper and textbook publishers. The talk has sparked a new question: Might an Apple iTablet change publishing forever? Yes. Yes, it will. That's the short answer. But there's more to it, of course.
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New Deveraux Romance Debuts as 'Vook' October 01, 2009 
The latest novel from best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux isn't exactly a book. "Promises" is a reading-and-viewing experience, a digital text in which videos not only complement the narrative but add to it. "Promises" is one of four online video books being published Thursday by Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Vook, a startup that integrates text, video and social networking.
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CNN Mobile: One Small Step for a News App October 01, 2009 
When CNN released its new iPhone application this week, the big news wasn't so much that the app was out there, but that CNN had the audacity to charge money for it. Nearly two whole dollars for news? In this online land of plenty? Bah! The Associated Press has a free news app -- as it didn't fail to point out when it covered the release of the CNN application.
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New CNN iPhone App Puts Another Brick in the Paywall September 29, 2009 
CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag. There's been a lot of talk this year about finally charging readers for news, especially on mobile devices, where media executives see a chance to condition consumers to handing over a few dollars for a constant stream of updates to their pocket.
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