The Digital Reader

Here are a few interesting stories you may have missed.

Amazon Doesn’t Care About Your Local Bookstore (Wired)

An Enhanced Book Tribute to Christopher Hitchens (free Epub from Vook)

Are Tablets and E-Readers Responsible For a Rebirth of Reading? (Gizmodo)

Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller (Slate)

Google eBooks One Year Later (Publisher’s Weekly)

Kindle survived 75 MPH motorcycle crash (MobileRead)

Kobo Touch eReader chosen as Editor’s Pick by Wired Magazine! (via Kobo)

Nook Coming to the UK “Soon”? (The Digital Reader)

We must, we must, make VAT dust (FutureBook)

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