Following yesterday’s announcement by Amazon that the Kindle is going global from next week, there’s been a flurry of activity trying to sort out the details and implications of the announcement. Given the scale of the announcement — the move will make the Kindle, previously only available in the US, accessible to readers in 100 [...]

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Amazon’s Kindle is going global. From October 19, customers in 100 countries will be able to buy a Kindle, buy ebooks from the Kindle’s 200,000+ English language titles, and do it all over the wireless network that has made the Kindle so popular. [Update: 1:37pm Just had a call to tell me that Amazon is [...]

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Below is the announcement of a milestone in making the 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks project a reality in 2010. Copyright collective Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL), one of a global network of not-for-profit rights organisations, has announced a venture to lead the digitisation of ebooks in New Zealand, starting with the 1000 Great New Zealand [...]

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