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Borders fire next volley in e-reader price war

June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · borders, hardware news

They haven’t dropped the price of the Kobo e-reader, but they are offering a $20 gift card with the device. From the press release: Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) today announced that the Kobo eReader will now be bundled with a $20 Borders gift card, and double Borders Bucks that can be used towards a [...]

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One injured in fire at E Ink HQ

April 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

From Wicked Local: A laboratory fire at E Ink – a Cambridge company that makes the displays for Amazon’s Kindle and other e-book reader devices – sent one employee to the hospital and left the company with close to $350,000 in damages Friday afternoon. On Friday at 11:54 a.m., fire crews responded to E Ink’s [...]

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