Fox Reads Scripts On A Kindle

September 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Actress Megan Fox has bought a Kindle wireless electronic reading gadget to go through her movie scripts because she "can't stand to touch dry paper". "I just can't stand to touch dry paper, like scripts or newspaper or anything that's not laminated," Contactmusic quoted the 23-year-old bombshell as saying.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Megan Fox has invested in an electronic reading device to scan through movie scripts because she doesn't like touching dry paper. The Transformers star revealed that she suffers from serious neuroses and hates the feel of paper against her skin, reported imdb.com.

September 16th, 2009 British actor CLIVE OWEN is staggered at the amount of money which has been thrown at terrible films during the recession - insisting he has seen many of the worst scripts which have been greenlighted. The Closer star can't believe that Hollywood executives are backing awful ideas in the current turbulent economic climate.

September 2nd, 2009 Coolerbooks.com to get 1M books from Google scansSAN FRANCISCO — Interead, a British company that sells the COOL-ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public-domain books to its online bookstore. The texts are available from Google Inc.

August 25th, 2009 Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloadsNEW YORK — Sony Corp. plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books, injecting more competition in a small but fast-growing market by adopting a key feature of the rival Kindle from Amazon.com.

August 14th, 2009 Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-lessNEW YORK — A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device. "Gee, maybe I should think about e-books myself," Castaldo thought.

August 5th, 2009 New Sony e-book reader $100 cheaper than KindleSAN FRANCISCO — Electronic books are often mentioned in the same breath as Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle digital reader. Now e-book rival Sony Corp.

July 22nd, 2009 New e-book reader to use AT&T networkNEW YORK — Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, another e-book reader is set to get a wireless connection from a cellular carrier, letting it access books anywhere there's a signal. AT&T Inc. planned to announce Wednesday that it will support an electronic book reading device due early next year from Plastic Logic Ltd., a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup based on British display technology.

July 18th, 2009 Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from KindleNEW YORK — A pirated e-book of "1984" led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George Orwell works they had purchased, including "1984" and "Animal Farm," had been removed from their Kindle and their money refunded.

July 8th, 2009 Amazon lowers Kindle e-book reader price to $299NEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic reading device to $299 on Wednesday in an effort to attract more bookworms and make the gadget a mainstream hit.

June 1st, 2009 Kindle display maker E Ink to be bought for $215MNEW YORK — E Ink Corp., the maker of the innovative display for the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million. The buyer is Prime View International, which has been Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink's partner in making "electronic ink" displays for Amazon.com Inc.

June 1st, 2009 Kindle display maker E Ink gets acquired for $215MNEW YORK — E Ink Corp., the maker of the innovative display for the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and other devices, has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million. The acquirer is Prime View International, which has been Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink's manufacturing partner in supplying "electronic ink" displays for Amazon's and Sony's e-book readers.

May 12th, 2009 Woman finds 'Twilight' sequel script in trashST. LOUIS — A St.

May 6th, 2009 A larger Kindle could upend textbooks, periodicalsNEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc. is widely expected to unveil a new Kindle electronic book device with a larger screen Wednesday, which would be geared for textbooks, magazines and newspapers and possibly shake up the economics of multiple industries at once.

May 6th, 2009 Amazon seeks more paths for sales with new KindleNEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc. hopes a bigger version of its Kindle electronic reading device can be a hit, even if it's more expensive, and the company is aiming it in part at college students who are eager to save money on their textbooks.