e-books

David Frith (The Australian 1 June, 2011): Reading apps on tablets & smartphones have not meant the end of eBook readers like the Kindle. In the US, Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook & the Kobo have all launched new models. The Kobo & Nook are Android powered & touch-enabled.

Amazon, the world's biggest seller of digital books, is also possibly planning to launch 2 tablets by the end of 2011. Apple's iPad has 75% of the world's market; the other 50 makers have the other 25%......BUT Amazon has a huge amount of content for sale - books, music, movies & other goods and you use the WhisperNet wireless service to access the internet (not expensive phone companies). Cost may be $350 to $450.....cheaper than iPads.

Amazon recently said they sell more eBooks than print books. For every 100 print books Amazon sells it moves 105 Kindle ebooks. [] from an email: [OZTL_NET] Big W eBook readers by Lindy Hathaway received 2/6/2011

[] for free ebooks.

Find a little person in your life, go to [] > Books and choose one to read aloud together.When you've finished reading, you are invited to Give a Book. By clicking on that, they will make a donation of a book to a selected literacy organisation (you can choose) that is striving to put books in the hands of kids. It costs you nothing, you can create an account or not as you wish, and there is a FB page where you can comment and perhaps win a copy. vie email from Barbara Braxton through oztl_net listserv accessed 30/12/2011

Isaac Newton's books in digital form: []