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Kindle e-book piracy accelerates

Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, "Knife Music," to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying--good or bad--about the thing. Over the months I've received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to learn that my book was being pirated--both as a separate file and part of two larger Torrents called 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks (iPod, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader) and 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI).

I had the strange reaction of being both dismayed and weirdly honored … Read more

B&N: Nook line 'biggest bestseller ever'

It's tit for tat in the world of e-readers these days.

After Amazon recently announced that the Kindle had become the company's best-selling product of all time, Barnes & Noble announced today that, "with millions of Nook eReading devices sold, the line has become the company's biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history."

The company also announced that even as its online sales of paper books continues to grow, it now sells more digital than physical books on its Web site, BN.com, which is not surprising. And while some consumers complained of being … Read more