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Monday Midday Links: Amazon Questioned About Privacy by Congress

Oct 17 2011

Monday Midday Links: Amazon Questioned About Privacy by Congress

Congress is asking Amazon to explain its SILK service. SILK is the service that Amazon will be using to speed up browser access on its tablet. Rather than spend the money on building a faster processor like Apple’s A5, Amazon has developed SILK which takes in web content and then optimizes it for the Kindle [...]

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Jan 11 2010

Monday Midday News Roundup: Dorchester Sells Frontlist and Backlist Titles

I’m not entirely certain what to make of this news but Dorchester has sold both frontlist and backlist titles of some of its major authors.      These titles have been acquired by Avon.   In a statement from Avon: HarperCollins has acquired several frontlist and backlist titles from Dorchester publishing and has also extended its distribution [...]

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