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Tencent has offloaded its loss-making animation and comics business to its China Literature subsidiary as the country’s largest social media and video gaming company slashes more noncore operations. ....
Amazon will be shutting down the Comixology app and integrating it into Kindle. Amazon's comic book app, Comixology, announced its end of service with its collection set to merge with Kindle's in December. ....
Since e-books first emerged as a way for readers to consume content digitally, publishers and authors have required content aggregators to apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the e-books they sell to libraries to prevent the unauthorized use, copying, and redistribution of these materials. While this practice has given publishers and authors peace of mind that sales won’t be lost to piracy or other unauthorized sharing, it has placed undue restrictions on readers who rely on institutional access to e-books. ....
Readers can now listen to thousands of free classic literature audiobooks and other public-domain material through Project Gutenberg. Microsoft and MIT researchers created the collection by scanning. ....