News Archive for 09/12/27

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Amazon: Kindle books outselling physical books

12/27, 12:25pm

Kindle has breakthrough Christmas

Amazon touted itself again this weekend with word of a banner holiday shopping period for the Kindle. The online retailer says that the e-book reader was not only the most gifted item, topping the iPod touch, but that readers for the first time ever bought more e-books in the Kindle's proprietary format than actual paper books. Amazon has stopped short of providing statistics.

Apple looking to expand iWork.com to full editing suite?

12/27, 12:10pm

Job listing hints full iWork web app

Apple may be expanding iWork to become a full web app, a job listing has revealed this past week. The company is looking for an Applications Engineer who would help develop a "scalable rich Internet application" and work on the very heart of the design. The new recruit would have to develop both presentation and word processing apps.