Oprah Winfrey has endorsed Amazon.com's Kindle, calling it her favorite new gadget. Kindle is roughly the size of a slim paperback book, capable of storing thousands of books, magazines, newspaper read more » DiscussBury
Jim Dalrymple reports, "Writers who had to shelve iPhone books because they would have violated the NDA are now free to publish their work, encouraging more detailed discussion." read more » DiscussBury
"Yahoo is releasing an Address Book API today that will give 3rd-party developers access Yahoo users%u2019 contact lists without the traditional, but primitive, method of page scraping." read more » DiscussBury
"While Bill Gates now holds a lucrative monopoly on digital images, his successors don't see the same prosperous future for the digital word. Microsoft is withdrawing..." read more » DiscussBury
"As Microsoft pulls the plug on Live Book Search, the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle tells Ars that the move is the right one, even if means an end to $10 million in funding...." read more » DiscussBury
"Faced with competition, and more likely lack of traffic, Microsoft has stopped scanning books and will shutter its public Live Search Books site next week." read more » DiscussBury
Jeff Atwood writes about his new site in conjunction with Joel Spolsky called stackoverflow, focused on providing answers to developers. He suggests that while their site services programmers who generally don't read this doesn't indicate a distaste for reading on his part - and that a programmer needs to read. read more » DiscussBury
Steve O'Hear over at last100 reports on the acquisition of Audible by Amazon. Audible offers audio downloads of books and aligns with Amazon's focus on a digital media future. read more » DiscussBury
