Neowin News Feed for: Books

Do you know who you write like?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:49:03 +0100

We take a look at I Write Like: a site dedicated to helping you identify who your writing style most resembles. We also take some of Neowin's authors to the site to see what it makes of their works. Read more...

Reddit provides dying boy with his wish

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:28:21 +0000

A thread posted on Reddit has managed to gain an advance copy of a book for a person diagnosed with terminal cancer, in the event he is not able to read it at the official release. Read more...

Amazon is a ruthless devil, bookstore says

Tyler Holman — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:37:07 +0000

According to Waterstones managing director James Daunt, Amazon is a 'ruthless, money-making devil,' apparently quite unlike Waterstones. And he's got a plan to save physical books, too. Read more...

Review: Steve Jobs' official biography

Mike Brown — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:56:53 +0100

Walter Isaacson's hotly anticipated book has finally hit shelves. Although he authorised it, Steve Jobs never asked to read a word of his biography. Does it live up to the hype? Neowin takes a look. Read more...

Major Android Market update starts going out to phones

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:06:00 +0100

Google's major content and feature update for its Android Market app has apparently started to be made available for people who own Android-based smartphone and devices. Engadget is reporting that it has received word from... Read more...

New Android Market for phones; includes books and movies

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:02:32 +0100

Google has just unveiled a major overhaul to the Android Market for mobile phones running Android 2.2 or higher. The updated market place will allow users to rent thousands of movies and download the latest... Read more...

Google, British Library reach deal to digitize 250,000 books

Byron Hinson — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:30:52 +0100

Earlier today, the British Library announced a partnership with Google that will allow the company access to digitize over 250,000 items from the library collection ranging from the years 1700-1870. According to The Wall Street... Read more...

Amazon.com allows the selling of Wikipedia articles

Tzvi Friedman — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:38:13 +0100

If the title on this Amazon.com book (Culture of Pakistan: Culture of Pakistan. Pakistani literature, Urdu, Books and publishing in Pakistan, Pakistani poetry, List of Urdu language poets, Music of Pakistan) seems suspicious to you,... Read more...

All My Books v1.7

bolide — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:12:25 +0100

Bolide Software announced today a new release of All My Books . All My Books is a book collection software suitable for all kind of books - usual printed ones as well as modern... Read more...

Sony Reader gets 500,000 e-books from Google

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:23:25 +0000

Half a million books are to be made available for free by Google on Sony's e-book reading device, according to the Associated Press. This is the first time Google will have made it's vast collection... Read more...

All My Books v1.5

bolide — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:48:17 +0000

Bolide Software announced today a new version of their book inventory progam. The key features of All My Books are: Fast downloading of book related information from internet book databases, including plot synopsis,... Read more...

Amazon ordered to end free delivery on books in France

Slimy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:29:04 +0000

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Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers' Union (Syndicat de la librairie franÃ§aise), accused Amazon... Read more...

PS3 network enters record books

Slimy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:43:57 +0000

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Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home, a project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 to help understand the cause of diseases, as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. Nearly 700,000... Read more...

$2M Grant to Digitize Brittle Books

Slimy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:12:07 +0000

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the world's largest library for a program to digitize thousands of works (set to begin within a few months) with a major focus on... Read more...

Google mashes up Books and Maps

Slimy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:12:50 +0000

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Google Inc. has started integrating its popular mapping service with its controversial books search engine. When searching for a specific novel, users can now use a section called "Places mentioned in this book" that offers... Read more...

Google Pauses Online Books Plan

Howard Thomson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:42:43 +0100

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Google's most recent service, Google Print, has been temporarily suspended until November. The aim of Google Print is to make the world's books accessible to internet users with full-text search. Books would be scanned from... Read more...

New Google Feature Offers Pages Of Books Online

lardiop — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:40:44 +0100

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Internet search giant Google, quiet since going public in August, introduced a feature Wednesday that lets users search through pages of books online. Google is taking aim at online retailer Amazon.com, which offers... Read more...

The Next Chapter In Electronic Books

configure — Tue, 04 May 2004 16:39:30 +0100

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The electronic book is one of those technological concepts from the 1990s that seems somewhat of a leftover. It's never really taken off the way it potentially could: It makes so much sense. ... Read more...

Intel, AMD accused of cooking the books

malebolgia — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:37:53 +0100

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Joe C. Carson of Applelust has invited us to take a gander at an article he published last week in which he more or less claims that Intel cooks the books when reporting results benchmarketing... Read more...

Neowin News Feed for: Books

Do you know who you write like?

Reddit provides dying boy with his wish

Amazon is a ruthless devil, bookstore says

Review: Steve Jobs' official biography

Major Android Market update starts going out to phones

New Android Market for phones; includes books and movies

Google, British Library reach deal to digitize 250,000 books

Amazon.com allows the selling of Wikipedia articles

All My Books v1.7

Sony Reader gets 500,000 e-books from Google

All My Books v1.5

Amazon ordered to end free delivery on books in France

PS3 network enters record books

More Video Games, Fewer Books at Schools?

$2M Grant to Digitize Brittle Books

Google mashes up Books and Maps

Google Pauses Online Books Plan

New Google Feature Offers Pages Of Books Online

The Next Chapter In Electronic Books

Intel, AMD accused of cooking the books