Author Nik: AndrewKing
Name: Andrew King
If you are looking for a suitable children’s gift, maybe for Christmas or for a birthday, then you might be well advised to seriously consider choosing a more traditional gift. Perennial favourites – Monopoly, Scrabble, slot car racing games, train sets etc. – have all withstood the test of time for a reason.
Google, the internet search giant, has been found guilty of infringing French copyright law by a court in Paris. French publishing house, La Martiniere, was awarded the sum of 300,000 Euros (equivalent to $ 430,000). Google must also pay an additional 10,000 Euros ($ 14,000) each day until the book extracts are withdrawn from Google’s database. The action was initiated by the French Publishers’ Association, as author’s group and La Martiniere.
Assuming that you haven’t been in hiding for the last ten months or so, you must surely be aware of the Amazon Kindle reader. The Kindle 2 launched in February 2009 and Amazon followed up with the large screen Kindle DX just a few months later.
Amazon will remember 2009 as being a very good year for them. A great deal of the credit for that must go to the Kindle e-book reader. The first Kindle debuted in November of 2007 when it sold out in under six hours. No new stock was available until April of the following year.
Sometime towards the end of the year, the Amazon management team will get together to cast their eyes over 2009′s performance. They will, in all probability, be very content – it has been an excellent year for Amazon. A lot of the credit for that must be given to the Amazon Kindle e-book reader – which is now Amazon’s top selling product.
E-book readers have been around for a decade now. The Franklin Ebookman launched in’99 – and it’s still selling today. However, it’s only in the last six months or so that these devices have really come into mainstream public awareness. Without a doubt, the Amazon Kindle reader family are the frontrunners right now. When you think about it, e-book readers, and the e-books that are read on them, are the ideal product for Amazon. So it’s no wonder that they released not one but two new readers in the first 6 months of 2009.