Welcome to a breaking news update edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show with Markus! Today we take a look at the recent announcement by Amazon to offer a textbook rental system to students with an 80% savings! Borders today officially announced that its all over for the retail chain. On the cutting block is 11,000 staff members and over 399 locations. RIM has released conflicting information about the future of the Blackberry Playbook. Finally we talk about Kobo and their interview with us today about their eBook stores in foreign markets and how it effects people in North America. Kobo also told us about their new Lending eBooks program and revised system for self-publishing.
The Breaking News edition of the Good e-Reader Radio show is always nice and short with the show normally lasting 20 minutes! If you are into e-Readers, Tablets, eBooks and Digital Publishing this is a must listen.
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Markus lives in San Francisco, California and is the video game and audio expert on Good e-Reader! He has a huge interest in new e-readers and tablets, and gaming.