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Western Europe Sees Huge Shift Toward E-Books

Starbucks Chooses Splashy Magic Title As First E-Book Pick Of The Week

Wasn't Starbucks the company that banned electronic reading devices in their stores, but left people with laptops or physical books alone?

I don't remember the article clearly, perhaps it was individual store managers that did that?

You're right stormhawk. But I'm not sure if Starbucks is the culprit.

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I poked around a bit also and came to the conclusion that it was individually owned pretentious coffee vendors, rather than mass market pretentious coffee vendors.

Off topic, but I prefer Seattle Coffee or McDonalds. At either one, in Houston at least, you can set in a near by food court all day, if you care to. Both companies are certainly un-pretentious.

"Roughly five months since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) promised library lending that would work for Kindle, the service is live at more than 11,000 U.S. libraries covering “millions” of Kindle and Kindle app customers. The launch follows reports of beta testing in two Seattle libraries and finally puts Kindle in the league of Sony (NYSE: SNE) and other e-readers that allow temporary access to DRM-protected e-books." For more info go here;

And the good news for us with Sonys, etc., is that with Kindle books available at the library, there are more titles available in electronic format than ever before.

I successfully checked out my first library book a little over a week ago. It was super easy. And now I'm on the waiting list for A Dance with Dragons.