Sony announced Thursday that the new iteration of its Reader digital book will be able to read electronic books published in the .epub file format, a file type gaining acceptance among major trade book publishers, many of whom have committed to begin publishing forthcoming e-books in the format.

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As much as I love zombie movies, I really don’t care to count how many times I’ve been invited to BECOME a zombie on Facebook. Yeah, you know the one I’m talking about. That’s what you get when you open your platform to developers with all sorts of agendas — you get a handful of […]

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Microsoft is forging ahead with plan B, now that its proposed merger with Yahoo is all but dead. It is expanding its relationship with Facebook to broaden exposure of its Windows Live Search as well as increase its own search ad business. This latter goal, of course, had been the point behind the failed Yahoo […]

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