I haven't looked at Amazon's Kindle series of e-readers for a while, but when the YP editor, Susan, asked me for advice on e-readers, I decided it was time I got up to speed with the latest Kindle...
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- May 19, 2013
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When was the last time a story leaped off the page at you? Until now, reading books on the Kindle or iPad has been a change in medium, not message, but new animated and media-rich publications...
Jessie Kung used to buy books at airport bookshops, but that was last year. The 32-year-old still visits those stores - but only to check out the titles of books that interest her. Then she takes...
One perk of owning a smartphone or a tablet computer is the chance to read your favourite book in electronic form.
How I Sold 1 Million E-books in 5 Months!
by John Locke
Telemachus Press (e-book)
We are swamped by the vast amount of entertainment around us, but isn't it time we started thinking about reading again, instead of wandering around in the virtual world all the time?
E-books have found a special spot in this year's book fair. The annual event kicks off next Wednesday. It will run until July 27 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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Matthew Murchie, 15, St Joseph's College
There is no doubt that e-books have many advantages over printed books - they have a huge memory capacity and don't waste paper or ink....
You must have heard about the Amazon Kindle by now, but you probably couldn't get one unless you travelled to the US and then you can only download books while you were there.
The only form of media that hasn't really gone digital - at least in Hong Kong - is books. While you can download music, films and TV shows from the internet, you still need to buy your books at...
If you're a voracious reader who ploughs through several books each week, it doesn't take long before they pile up. That is a predicament PR consultant and entertainment business veteran Anders...
Young people are flocking to the Web for information and news making traditional print media like newspapers and magazines wring their hands over plummeting readership and ad revenue.
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