US court stays case against Google digital library plan
September 18th, 2012 - 11:28 am ICT by IANS
New York, Sep 18 (IANS) A US appeals court has granted a stay on a case filed by the Authors Guild against Google until it decides on a trial court ... Read more...
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Is e-reader sounding paperback’s death knell?
April 13th, 2012 - 12:01 am ICT by IANS
London, April 12 (IANS) Paperbacks may be fighting a losing battle against e-books, with their sales down by 25 percent, a new finding says.In the first three months of 2012, ... Read more...
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‘Digital format not threatening printed Urdu books’
February 26th, 2012 - 5:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Noted Urdu poet Waseem Barelvi has warned that information without knowledge was useless and that while the digitisation of Urdu literature was a positive step, ... Read more...
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Four generations a facet of contemporary Indian art: Gulammohammed Sheikh (Interview)
October 18th, 2011 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) An interesting aspect of contemporary Indian art is the presence of four generations of artists-like a large family, says renowned painter and scholar Gulammohammed Sheikh, ... Read more...
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Simon & Schuster eyes India’s digital reading space
September 22nd, 2011 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The booming publishing market in India has lured yet another international publishing firm, Simon & Schuster, which is high on the country's growing digital reading ... Read more...
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Facebook buys digital publishing company
August 3rd, 2011 - 11:20 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 3 (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook has bought a digital publishing company Push Pop Press that develops technology to help make interactive books optimised for iPad ... Read more...
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Book publishing course starts
July 7th, 2011 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi July 7 (IANS) A four-week training course on book publishing organised by the by the National Book Trust was inaugurated here Thursday."Book making is a wonderful trade to ... Read more...
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Sony unveils book-like twin-screen tablet
April 27th, 2011 - 6:37 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 27 (IANS) Tablets can help you carry your entire book collection. But Sony has gone a step further by making a device that operates like a tome too.Sony ... Read more...
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Bangladesh seeks synergy with Aligarh Muslim university (With Image)
March 13th, 2011 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
Aligarh, March 13 (IANS) Bangladesh would like to build strong synergy with the Murshidabad centre of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) because of its locational advantage, and linguistic and cultural ... Read more...
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E-books on the rise with sales of digital books growing 18-fold in 2010
March 1st, 2011 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 1 (ANI): The sale of e-books is on the rise, with Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter books, saying its digital book sales grew 18-fold in 2010.Now e-books account ... Read more...
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New Google Ebooks Available On Cloud-Based Technology
December 7th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Dec 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Google has once again surprised its loyal book worms, with the launch of Google eBook. This is a new service by Google, that would enable buying ... Read more...
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DK Books to focus now on e-books, travel
October 8th, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Dorling-Kindersley-India (DK-India), a publishing subsidiary of Penguin Books, is expanding its footprint in the Indian market with new digital and travel titles in 2010-11. It has cut ... Read more...
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Digital Textbooks Revolutionizing Education Procedure Slowly
September 17th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Sep 17, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It would be wrong to think that technology is only useful for entertainment. On the contrary, over the last two decades technology has changed the way ... Read more...
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India’s first e-reader Wink unveiled, supporting 15 languages
August 19th, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 19 (IANS) Bangalore-based digital publisher EC Media International Thursday launched its multi-function e-book reader Wink that not only supports 15 languages but will also offer over 200,000 book titles on ... Read more...
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Amazon.com Presents ‘Kindle’ Worth $139 As Its Rivalry Against Apple Intensifies
July 30th, 2010 - 7:39 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Jeff Bezos the chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. can be credited with diminishing prices and contributing features to the Kindle to shield it ... Read more...
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E-books outsell hardbacks on Amazon
July 21st, 2010 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 21 (IANS) Amazon, the online retailer and owner of the Kindle e-reader, has announced that digital books have been consistently outselling hardback books for the last three months in the ... Read more...
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Busy but dying to read? Try an e-reader
February 5th, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Technology is changing the way we read. Italica, a German company, is promoting an e-book reader and archive in India for young professionals whose rigorous work schedules ... Read more...
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Now access 100,000 books with Pi, India’s first e-reading device
January 28th, 2010 - 4:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Indian readers are in for a whole new experience with the launch Thursday of infibeam.com Pi, the country's first indigenous e-reading device that offers access to over ... Read more...
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E-books to make paperbacks obsolete
November 14th, 2007 - 2:57 am ICT by admin
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