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Wednesday

Long form textuality

With E-Readers here are the potential gains: edgier, riskier books in digital form, new forms of narratives, invention. New modes of storytelling. A rise in importance of texts and meaning. And, yes — paradoxically — a marked increase in the quality of things that do get printed

The thing is to understand why we historically haven't read long-form text on screens and how the e-readers are wedging themselves in the middle of everything.

We got to separate good and bad hypertextuality.

The key difference between Formless and Definite Content is the interaction between the content and the page (their fusion actually). Formless Content doesn’t see the page or its boundaries. Whereas Definite Content is not only aware of the page, but embraces it. It edits, shifts and resizes itself to fit the e-page. In a sense, Definite Content approaches the page as a canvas — something with dimensions and limitations — and leverages these attributes to both elevate the object and the content to a more complete whole.

Formless Content is unaware of the container.

Definite Content embraces the container as a canvas. Formless content is usually only PDF. Definite content usually has some hypertextual elements along with text.

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Sunday

Where You can find the best Ebooks on the Web

1. Free French Ebooks

2. Free English Ebooks

3. French Ebooks

4. English Ebooks

5. Main Ebooks Search Engine

6. Publishers

Thanks to ebouquin for the list (i completed)

Tuesday

Ebooks are short and different from traditional publishing

Myths abound about print books being the right kind of book and eBooks are on their last leg. These ideas spring from traditional publishing.

Hopeful authors have read it many times--that a true book, one that will bring you reverent kudos, must be in print and must be long. And it must have a top agent and publisher. Maybe true five-ten years ago. Like you, I believed it at first and went down that rocky road to get an agent, then publisher. Way too hard and took way too long.

My first rule. Write a short book first. Notice famous authors such as Ken Blanchard did.

Second rule. Write a non-fiction, self-help book first, then a novel. You'll experience more success with a non-fiction. Then, you can use the profits to stay the long haul for your fiction. Follow my lead. First, I wrote print booklets or journals and sold them at the back of the room in seminars of the same name. This led to thousands of income each month. Then I read self-publishing books such as Dan Poynter's. Right track. But, then I realized one can write a print and an eBook at the same time. And, you can sell either from your own Web site. Or, you can take a 50% or less royalty and sell from someone elses's site.

Remember one great benefit of eBooks. The author gets by with little cost. You can send the books via email if you don't have a Web site yet, and you can offer them as downloads at your site.One great benefit of short eBooks. Your audience loves them. They don't want to spend a lot of time reading. They want quick solutions in an easy to read format. They don't want long books over 130 pages with too much extraneous information. Give them answers to their questions and you'll have a fan for life.The sad truth that no emerging authors wants to believe--that they can get the publisher to publicize, promote and market their book. Not true. It's amazing how many bookcoaching clients really want to turn it all over to someone else. The problem is it's way too expensive, and no one knows nor has more passion for a book than the author. It's not money that rules, but a creative approach to sharing your wealth.Another rule. If you can write a book, you can also write ad copy for the book's introduction, the short "tell and sell," the back cover, or the Web or email sales letter. You just need some coaching from a pro. Start a promotion savings account and spend a little to get the best words that will attract and give your audience enough information to make it easy to buy.

Join a telegroup that writes each week and exchanges files with each other. Of course make sure the bookcoach is savvy and knows how a saleable book is put together, knows short cuts to write fast, and clear, and gives you useful feedback to help your book grow and get born.What's your intention? To think it takes too much time, too much money and you aren't much of a writer? If you can get by your resistances, you can learn how to write --well. If you put a little daily attention on your book project, you can finish it. Take some small action today and feel powerful, because authors are a special breed-and the club is awaiting your good news.

Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people's lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income.

Author of Write Your eBook or Other Short Book Fast and 10 others, she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, "The Book Coach Says. . .," and "Business Tip of the Month." at http://www.bookcoaching.com./ Email her at Judy@bookcoaching.com or Cullinsbks@aol.com Phone: 619/466-0622 -- Orders: 866/200-9743

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Saturday

Unified body of a e-text

Traditional rules emphasize the utility and intentional coherence of a text.

They direct scriptor's' attention to points of arrival and departure, arguing that they must decide what readers need to know at either end of a hypermedia link in order to make use of what they find there. To determine what users need to know, the author must assume some unified or teleological understanding of the text !

In much the same vein, they contend that hypertext presentations need to preserve contextuality and provide a means by which the user can see the fragment's place in the coherent whole. The complexity and multiplicity of the hypertext, a complex system of documents and exhibits, reduces at some conceptual level to a unified body of information, a training manual or a course text. According to traditional views, while it is true that this hypertextual material could not be presented as effectively in a book, the difference is of degree not of kind.

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Thursday

Apple Mac Tablet

Steve Jobs on iPod Touch cameras, ebook readers and the iPod Nano 5G

Steve Jobs: he's back!

We're happy to see Steve Jobs back in the black polo neck and on stage in San Francisco and it seems he's even up for interviews. The New York Times's David Pogue got a few minutes with him and it was quite illuminating. If, like us, you're reeling a little from the lack of a camera in the latest iPod Touch, Jobs has an explanation. For him, the iPod Touch has become a pocket gaming device and it needs to be affordable.

He said: “We don't need to add new stuff – we need to get the price down.” Don't be surprised if we get a camera in the iPod Touch eventually though. On the subject of the iPod Nano 5G and its new video recording smarts, Jobs blamed the lack of stills snapping skills on the sensor: “Sensors for doing video are fairly thin. The sensors for doing a still camera…and we'd really like to have autofocus…are just way to thick to fit inside the Nano.”

Pressed for his opinion on ebook readers, Jobs was rather dismissive of standalone devices pointing instead to the convenience of general-purpose devices. It was a broad statement but could point to Apple's potential plans for the mysterious and possibly non-existence Apple Mac Tablet.

Another interesting hint on the future of the Apple Mac Tablet came in Jobs discussion of what went on at Apple in his absence: “A lot of things that were started before I left…were continually worked on…and there are some things I'm focusing a lot of attention on right now.” ??Steve, you tease! He continued, noting that the new products needed “polish” and that he doesn't think Apple will “miss a beat”. If you were disappointed by yesterday's announcements, I have a feeling you won't be next time.

(via The New York Times)

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Tuesday

Google Giving Up ANYTHING for Book Deal to Get eBooks

Thousands of aspiring authors from around the world can now totally sympathize with Google—because the search giant is also struggling to get a book deal. Well, okay, so mostly they’re struggling to get regulatory approval of a book deal, and said book deal is more about licensing and ePub than actually breaking into the industry—but close enough, right?

Anyway, Google looks like they’re getting to the point where they’re willing to give up just about anything to get this book deal through the EU. The latest concession is to allow two non-US members onto a board to administer its digital books settlement. Bloomberg also reports that:

Books that are commercially available and under copyright in Europe won’t be considered out of print under a proposed settlement with U.S. publishers over the company’s book-scanning project, Google said in a letter to several publisher associations in Europe.

The deal is supposed to pertain to works that are out of print (but still in copyright) as well as public domain works. The European Commission “is seeking precise details on the exact scope of the settlement” and “how many European works or publications will potentially be affected.”

Coming up on eleven months after the agreement was first announced, Google is still facing widespread regulatory scrutiny, as well as some protests from author groups, Amazon (via the Open Book Alliance) and others.

However, Google continues to pursue the deal (even in the face of the DOJ in the US). I think this is more than just Google not wanting to back down from their deal—I think this is a sign of just how serious Google is about their pending eBook foray.

They already have deals with Sony and Interead, and either of those deals could also lead in to the hardware side of eBook readers. Now they need the content to back up those deals and really make a push to take on Amazon.

If they get the necessary permissions for the nearly 500,000 books they’re proposing, Google could stand to take on Amazon—but Amazon would still have an advantage in current bestsellers.

What do you think? Can old books from Google match up to Amazon? Just how much will Google concede to get the deal through?

Jordan McCollum

Thursday

Sony&Google for ebooks

Sony, together with Google, on Wednesday announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free public domain books in its eBook Store, including classic novels, biographies, historical texts, romance novels and more.

The titles, which Google has digitized as part of its Google Books project, are available in EPUB format and naturally work with the $280 Sony PRS-505 or the $350 PRS-700 Reader.

The PRS-500 does not work with the Google offering.

The process involves downloading software, signing up for an account and loading the e-books on your compatible device. For now, it’s available only to U.S.-based readers (probably due to licensing agreements and copyright issues across borders).
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Saturday

Screen of an eBook

When you’re considering an eBook, the screen is the most important consideration. After all, you’ll be staring at it for hours on the daily commute, shielding it from the sun while lounging by the pool, and cradling it lovingly when you go to bed.

Luckily, there’s very little to separate the eBooks currently available. They all use E-Ink technology, refreshing only when needed to save power. However, the speed at which they refresh also plays a part. Expect to wait at least a second before the screen updates. Obviously, that’s slower than a traditional book, but some eBooks are able to update quicker. The Cool-er is the fastest I’ve tried, while the Sony Reader PRS-505, it has to be said, was noticeably sluggish.

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Wednesday

How to write ebooks ?

Creative hypertextual writers have to construct texts that interact with the needs and desires of the reader.

Hypertextual writing represents a new stage in the long history of writing, one that has far-reaching implications in the fields of human and artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, semiotics, and literary theory. Hypertext will carry literacy into a new age -- the age of electronic text that will emerge from the "age of print that is now passing."

According to Bolter, cultural literacy is now becoming almost synonymous with computer literacy.

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Thursday

Picture with words

We must reinforce our view by constantly referring words to pictures and pictures back to words.

Ebooks must contain illustrations of the subjects we describe, and of course readers are invited to go to the actual scenes themselves; but the theory holds good only for literal representations and requires the denial of subjective elements such as association and an independent faculty of imagination. The crux of aesthetics is the treatment of figurative representation; and here, as we will see, we hold that metaphors further enhance our perception of natural and spiritual powers.

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Monday

Ebooks with freebooks only

Electronic books (ebooks) are becoming more and more popular with Brits, says Hitwise.

Research by the company, which monitors trends on the Web, revealed that searches for the digital devices such as the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle, which allow users to read books in an electronic format, have increased by 100 percent since January last year.The Sony Reader was the most-searched eBook, closely followed by Amazon's Kindle, which is not currently available in the UK, the Iliad and the Cybook.Hitwise research director Robin Goad: "Searches have followed similar patterns in the US and UK. Interest has been building since September 2008 and there were peaks in November and December in the build-up to Christmas".

Goad also revealed that UK ebook users were keen to get their hands on free files to use on the devices."As you would expect, eBook searches are always on the look out for free stuff and the second-most popular search including the term 'ebooks' is 'free ebooks'."

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Tuesday

Mark Coker tells us about Smashwords

Over the last few years as Smashwords gestated in my head, I spent a lot of time contemplating the furious changes to come as digital books make their way to the Internet.

In physical form, a book has characteristics that cause most of us to apply value to it - we may appreciate the cover art, its display is crisp and sharp, it's durable, it's portable, it has weight and substance in our hands, it looks sharp in our library, it tends to smell better with age, and simply reading it in public is form of self-expression.Simply by transforming a book to digital form, we strip away the physical and have a product that is more ethereal. We also change the perceived value of the book in the eyes of the consumer.
Now in digital form, a book is little more than words and images that must compete with all the other forms of information dissemination, knowledge sharing and entertainment, most of which can be had for essentially FREE on the Internet.So what does this mean for authors and the future of writing? Are digital books moving toward free?

Considering the Smashwords business model is predicated on taking a 15% cut of sales, I certainly hope we don't go all free. And as an author who put several hundred hours of work into my own novel, I admit I desire some form of monetary compensation.Over the weekend, I posed this question to authors over at LinkedIn, asking if we need to broaden our definition of author compensation, and the responses are quite interesting (check them out). Most authors answered they want compensation in cold hard cash. The idea of alternate measures of compensation, such as fame or enhanced credibility, is anathema to most authors who have responded so far. Several have pledged to stop writing without compensation.The debate is fascinating to me because for years, traditional print publishing - the ideal most authors aspire to as the sign of success - has failed to offer adequate compensation to all but a few authors.What do you think?

Posted by Mark Coker
Labels: author compensation, digital books, ebooks

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Thursday

PHONEREADER scans the web for ebooks

PHONEREADER SA (FRANCE) has developed the BOOKIO search software ™ to enable users to scan eBooks news on the web and download it on WIFI connected devices.

The software is available on http://www.phonereader.eu/

This ReadAllOver system is positioned as an eBook file format finder. Thanks to its novelty, PHONEREADER’s software may be coupled with a specific ebooks database and just-in-time delivery to “always-on” client reader devices for the rendering of existing reader pages. BOOKIO is seen as a value-added software component to a dedicated eBook hardware device offered by major book retailers. In fact, this is a full-screen temporal data editor that may be used either connected to an database server, or in disconnected mode with later synchronisation of editing changes to the server. Hypertextual Editor may be used stand-alone, embedded in web applications, or embedded in e-book applications or other reading applications. BOOKIO may be used on PC's, laptops, smartphones and tablet PCs. This phone reader solution also includes out-of-the-box examples of applications for use on PDA devices (via a web browser). The hypertextual Editor is a powerful temporal editing tool. This is written using the Server Java API's and objects, and PHONEREADER SA provides source code to clients to allow them to customize and extend it to their needs !

With the launch of the Sony Reader in the UK ( Waterstone’s online store), success of Amazon Kindle all around the world and arrival of new WIFI Irex reader in Europ, publishers are now about to distribute ebooks on connected devices. To improve both the format and the compatible reading systems, the upcoming months will be crucial when testing such a specific PHONEREADER software as BOOKIO.

Established in 1999, PHONEREADER is a Paris-based mobile company. Actually, this company is a pioneer of hypertextual mobile applications. Engineers develop and operate mobile softwares for network operators, for media companies (newspapers such as Le Monde, Le Figaro …) as wall as for corporate customers (ORANGE, VODAFONE…). The company has been at the forefront of mobile ebook development for publishers. It is now a leader in mobile and wireless realm that provides technological reading services that speeds up the delivery of next generation of ebook apps to consumers and professional alike.

Tuesday

We need broadband connectivity with ebooks

The focus on sales of eBook readers is misleading, because the first challenge is to change the book itself, so that it delivers far more value than the paper edition with which we are familiar.

Kindle sales, which is estimated are approximately 160,000 units as of this writing, are a great indication that people do want an alternative to hauling a pile of books or to reading on a PC. BeBooks has sold 30,000 of its reader devices—people want this option.
However, we are at precisely the same stage in the digital book reader device market as when Audible saw the first challengers to its portable digital audio player emerge, in 1998. Music had not changed—that is, it hadn’t been unbundled from the concept of an “album”—and did not change until the iPod appeared.

Amazon’s Kindle, which I have used extensively, remains the most impressive device based on price and functionality, in my opinion. The Sony Reader needs broadband connectivity and substantially improved navigation and note-taking ability in order to keep up with Kindle. The iRex Reader 2nd Edition, a $699 Linux-based reader with Wacom pen technology, is really impressive, but way to expensive to be a viable competitor in a world where readers of this blog want a device that is $99 or less. New flexible display technology from Plastic Logic promises good things, too, however the main problem remains not how to display text, rather it is how to link different versions of the same text together for use across devices, because what we call “books” today are now available in many different contexts and interfaces. (from Mitch Ratcliffe

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Friday

Connected iRex eBook Reader !

Here we are now with Wifi Ethernet port eBook Readers !

On Monday iRex Technologies is revealing a new eBook reader aimed at business users with a 10.2 inch screen (the company is actually offering an ebook reader since two years in Europe dubbed iLiad) . Forbes already published the details about the Reader 1000, before the official launch on Monday. The iRex Reader 1000 will work with any file format, including e-books, PDF, Word document and HTML.

The new Reader 1000 features a touch screen to interact with the documents presented on the E-Ink greyscale screen.The basic Reader 1000 will sell for about $650. The model with Wi-fi, Bluetooth and a 3G will go for about $850.

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Saturday

DRM nightmare

There may yet be a way out of DRM nightmare.

WH Smith offers its ebooks in a variety of formats to suit most readers (except the Kindle), and there are dozens of websites that sell ebooks without DRM protection or even allow completely free downloads. Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org ), for example, offers more than 25,000 free downloads that should work on all three readers here – although you won’t find the latest airport blockbusters among its classic and out-of-print titles.

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Wednesday

Ebook content tools

Today, Adobe unveiled new versions of its two major eBook content tools, Content Server 4 and Digital Edition 1.6, both of which will be released on September 22.

Content Server 4 is an update of Adobe’s server software that allows publishers, retailers and libraries to sell and distribute e-books. (Content Server 3 will be discontinued upon the release of version 4.) Digital Editions 1.6 is Adobe’s client software for buying, managing and reading e-books—like iTunes for e-books—that has been updated to support the new features in Content Server 4.

The new software will support EPUB, PDF and Adobe DRM file formats, making it compatible with a wide range of distribution channels and devices, such as the Sony Reader. It’s a distributed system, meaning some services will be handled by the consumer, while others will be handled by Adobe. The consumers’ systems will handle packaging and encryption of the content as a PDF or EPUB file, as well as determination of what kind of permissions to grant users. Adobe’s servers will handle the software’s initial activation and licensing for each book the client sells. Content Server 4 will also be set up to enable libraries and other lending institutions to create short-term licenses.
After an initial activation fee of $6,500 Content Server 4 consumers will have to pay an annual subscription plus a small Pay-Per-Use licensing fee for each purchase made through the system.

Morgan Teicher

Friday

Readers at the digital age

Embracing the Digital Age: An Opportunity for Booksellers and the Book Trade ISBN 9780955223365 http://www.booksellers.org.uk/DOC/index.asp

Brave New WorldDigitisation of Content: the opportunities for booksellers and The Booksellers AssociationThese publication was digitally printed by Lightning Source and is available on demand through booksellers. This publication is also digitally available for download from http://www.booksellers.org.uk/

« Digital publications redux »http://info.texterity.com/info/reader-research/Source : Seybold report, 07/2008“For digital editions, desktop and laptop computers are still favored (74% and 61%, respectively). E-book readers barely registered.”
French reports (PDF format ),
Source : http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/index-rapports.htm
juin 2008Rapport sur le livre numériqueRemise du rapport de Bruno Patino à Christine Albanel le 30 juin 2008

Voir le compte rendu dans « Le Monde des Livres » du 4 juillet 2008 à l’adresse http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2008/07/03/a-l-heure-de-la-galaxie-numerique_1065767_3260.html
janvier 2008Rapport du médiateur de l'édition publique pour l'année 2006 Rapport du médiateur de l'édition publique pour l'année 2005
septembre 2007Remise du rapport de la Mission de réflexion sur la Librairie indépendante La situation économique de la librairie indépendante

Other references

http://www.metabole.typepad.com/
http://lafeuille.homo-numericus.net/2008/07/projet-de-planete-sur-ledition-electronique.html http://www.netvibes.com/biblio21#Actu_Ebook http://blog.feedbooks.com/fr/
http://www.hypertextual.net/

Thursday

Ebooks friendly !

Why do readers and entrepreneurs love eBooks?

eBooks are inexpensive, convenient, and practical. They take very little costs to produce and reproduce, since technology has allowed for “copy and paste” functions. You don’t need to worry about printing, distribution, and retail overhead costs that plague the traditional commodities. Payment is fast and easy (no more than 2 minutes to checkout) and receiving the product is instantaneous!

Advertising in eBooks is a major way to increase exposure and sales. The authors are smart because after they market their eBooks and eBook resale right, they make even more money from the affiliate links and Joint Venture partner links that people click. If they bought upholstery cleaning san antonio eBook, there’s a good chance they’ll buy your advertisements. You can even offer other products of yours. Links are great because they also broaden the range of information available and allow easy navigation for users.A great tactic for luring in potential clients is having nice graphics and also utilizing video and sound. If you appeal to your eyes and ears, you’re increasing your chances of a sale. Technology play a big factor in internet marketability and Usually, printed matter requires color to enhance a reader’s experience. eBooks can use as many colors and graphics available. The best part is that color is absolutely free with the computer and not with paper!

eBooks are also environmentally friendly. No waste is produced which includes reduced exhaust from cars for deliveries and abolished emissions from factories. Paper production includes the use of bleaches, inks, fungicides, etc, all of which are also eliminated.One of the best reasons people love eBooks is that they are compressed and transferable. This is good for people who own laptops – they can read while on the go.

Being compact is ideal for any business owner and customer, because physical space is purged. No longer are clean carpets days of stacking shelves and storing boxes of old books. Now you can open, close, and delete them from a computer. Heck, you can even save them on email programs forever!The best reason for sellers is that eBooks are created with an individual eBook resale right. This is what eBook marketers are after, the product and the resale right. Half the profit is from the sale of the product and the other half is the sale of the eBook resale right.

There are so many other reasons why people love to buy and sell eBooks and their associated eBook resale right. Because of these reasons, eBooks will continue to dominate the internet and there’s no real reason why they shouldn’t – what a brilliant concept!

Wednesday

Iphone kills the Kindle

Will the iPhone Kill the Kindle?

by Josh Catone

Good news today for Amazon: Citi analyst Mark Mahaney predicts that the Kindle ebook reader will hit $1 billion by 2010. Mahaney has revised upward his earlier predictions regarding the Kindle, and now thinks that by year’s end Amazon will have sold 378,000 of the $359 device and that it will account for 4% of the company’s sales next year. The Kindle, thinks Mahaney, will be Amazon’s iPod.

Mahaney is basing his estimates on the Kindle being a must-have gift his holiday and moving 150,000 units in Q4, a modest number considering holiday numbers of other hot consumer electronics devices in recent years. But as Silicon Alley Insider points out, the Kindle isn’t a 1:1 comparison to the iPod, since most people already had a library of music they could load onto their new MP3 player. With the Kindle, users must pay about $10 per book on top of the $359 price tag for the device itself. Even with game players, such as the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360, which Mahaney also used in his comparison, many people had libraries of games from older game players that were compatible with the new version.

What Amazon should worry about more than the higher barrier for entry, though, is that the iPhone and a potential Apple tablet could really be the ultimate eBook reader.
The iPhone Apps Store has a couple of free eBook reader apps (eReader and Stanza) that are already relatively popular, as well as a paid app (BookShelf). These apps support a number of eBook formats, like PDF, txt, Plucker, and PalmDoc. Even though the iPhone comes with a monthly fee, it also comes with a phone, a full web browser, and is a viable computing platform for a ton of other types of applications including games, which could overcome the total overall cost for many people.

And let’s not forget that there’s also the iPod Touch, which sells for less than the Kindle (8GB version).
Prior to the launch of the app platform, a pair of iPhone eBook web applications were raking in members, and given the large libraries at sites like eBooks.com, which sell books in PDF format, theoretically the same content available on the Kindle is available on the iPhone. If Jobs and company launch a larger form factor tablet later this year and manage to keep costs down (say, under $1000), then the Kindle could be in trouble.

Which would you rather have, a $359 eBook reader that just reads books and gets news and blog feeds? Or a $1000 tablet that can do anything your computer can do? (Of course, a low-ish cost tablet from Apple is a big if, but the $299 8GB iPod Touch already trumps the Kindle in everything but form factor — which may be a matter of personal preference).

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