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Osama Bin Laden was a fan of 9/11 conspiracy theories, according to a newly released list of English language books found in his Pakistan hideout. The list was among documents belonging to the former al-Qaeda chief published by the US government this week.
The company says its new model has seven times more memory, enabling it to hold up to 1,500 titles. The increased storage capacity brings Kindle closer to the idea of being an iPod for books. Amazon also announced plans to make all books available for download in electronic form. ... Our vision is every book, ever printed in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds.
2009-02-09
reading Amazon.com Kindle bookA book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure. Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. With rare exceptions, one can buy them only for the small number of years they are in print. After that, they are found only in a vanishing number of libraries and used book stores. As the years pass, contracts get lost and...
2009-10-08
Google book library future license informationA judge has temporarily overturned a decision by Miami's school board to ban a controversial children's book about Cuba from school libraries.
2006-07-25
propaganda Cuba freedom book censorship USAThe American soldier Jessica Lynch, who was rescued by US special forces after being taken prisoner in Iraq, has signed a $1m book deal with publisher Alfred A Knopf.
2003-09-03
War On Terror Jessica Lynch fabricated marketing Iraq invasion USA bookIt may not be enough room for Shakespearean verse, or Harry Potter's magic, but one bitesize novel is reaching a new audience. Teenagers in South Africa have been downloading an m-novel - a specially-created story written just for mobile phones.
2009-10-28
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