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All Your Userbase Are Belong to Us

An interesting development in the small but growing field of eBooks: who owns the relationship between content and customer? Amazon clearly believes it should do so, following in the model of Apple’s iPod. Newspaper tycoon and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch feels otherwise:

“We will not be ceding our content rights to the fine people [...]

Consumers Slowly Warming to eBooks. Slowly.

There are some interesting trends in this Forrester Research report:

Only 17% of respondants have never heard of an eBook reader in 2009. That’s down from a full 37% in 2008.
In 2008, only 21% of respondants had actually seen an eBook reader; in 2009, that figure shot up to 36%
The [...]