1: The agreement values NewCo at $1.7 billion, more than twice Barnes & Noble's market capitalisation before it was announced. 2: The bookseller's share price rose by 50% on the day of the deal—which tells you what investors think of the dead-tree end of the trade. 3: The alliance should bring Barnes & Noble not only cash but also new readers of digital books and magazines, especially outside the United States. [...]114: In the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Tom Mainelli of IDC, a research firm, Barnes & Noble accounted for one-fifth of the 7m e-readers shipped in America—against a mighty three-quarters for Amazon, maker of the Kindle (see chart). 5: But Barnes & Noble shipped no Nooks elsewhere, which helps explain why it had only 14% of the global market. 6: Via the Nook app, non-Americans will also be able to leaf through Barnes & Noble's digital catalogue.

1:NewCo的最终协议价格是17亿美元，比这个项目被宣布之前，巴诺的市值高出两倍还多。2:完成交易的当天，图书零售商的股价上升了50%，这足以说明投资者是如何看待这项老树开新花的交易的。3:联合的战略不仅将为巴诺公司带来现金，更将增加电子书与电子杂志的读者数量，在美国之外更是如此。[...]114: 根据市场研究机构IDC的Tom Mainelli所述，美国本土销售的7百万电子阅读器中，巴诺公司的产品占了1/5——与之相对的是亚马逊公司生产的Kindle阅读器：该产品的销售占了美国本土交易的3/4（见图表）。 5:不过巴诺公司没有在其他地方销售Nook产品，这也解释了为什么该产品只占全球14%的市场。6:通过Nook应用程序，美国之外的用户也能够翻阅巴诺公司的电子目录。

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1:Library users-nearly 60% of Americans aged 16 and older, according to Pew, an opinion researcher-are a perfect market for Amazon.2:It woos them by making loans on the Kindle uniquely easy.[...]113:Late last year Amazon also unveiled its Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which lets its best customers (called "Amazon Prime" members) borrow free one of thousands of popular books each month.

1:根据民意调查研究机构皮尤的数据，16岁以上并占美国人口数近60%的图书馆使用者，是亚马逊最好的市场。2:它通过在Kindle上极其便利的借阅程序，从而取悦了他们。[...]113:去年晚些时候，亚马逊还推出了Kindle所有者的借阅图书馆，这个图书馆允许亚马逊最好的客户（被称为"亚马逊会员"的成员）每月在上千本畅销书中免费借阅一本。

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1:Publishers were miffed when OverDrive teamed up with Amazon, the world's biggest online bookseller, last year.[...]112:Owners of Amazon's Kindle e-reader who want to borrow e-books from libraries are now redirected to Amazon's website, where they must use their Amazon account to secure a loan.3:Amazon then follows up with library patrons directly, letting them know they can "Buy this book" when the loan falls due.

1:去年，当OverDrive公司与世界上最大的在线图书销售商——亚马逊合作之后，出版商们有点恼火。[...]112:亚马逊Kindle阅读器的所有者们现在如果想从图书馆借阅电子书，就将被带入到亚马逊的网站上，在那里，他们必须使用他们的亚马逊账户来为他们的借阅提供担保。3:亚马逊还进一步与图书馆的老主顾们直接交涉，告诉他们若是借阅过期，则他们可以直接"购买这本书"。

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In the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Tom Mainelli of IDC, a research firm, Barnes & Noble accounted for one-fifth of the 7m e-readers shipped in America—against a mighty three-quarters for Amazon, maker of the Kindle (see chart).

调查机构IDC的Tom Mainelli表示，2011年第四季度美国市场新推出的七百万的电子书阅读器中，Barnes & Noble占有五分之一，而Kindle的生产商亚马逊囊括了四分之三（见图）。

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This arrangement nudged Penguin to end its deal with OverDrive earlier this year. The publisher's new pilot involves 3M, a rival distributor that does not yet support the Kindle . "Ultimately Amazon wants to control the library business," says Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant.

这一约定迫使企鹅出版社在今年早些时候终止了它和OverDrive的合约。这家出版商的新合作者包括3M公司，OverDrive的竞争对手之一，一家尚未支持Kindle的经销商。"亚马逊最终想控制图书馆事务。"出版业咨询师麦克?肖特金说。

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"We don't think of the Kindle Fire as a tablet. We think of it as a service. "

“对于我们而言，KindleFire不仅仅是一款平板电脑，它还是为人们提供的一种服务。”

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Stieg Larsson, left, becomes the first member of Kindle 's Million Club, selling more than one million e-copies of the Millennium Trilogy.

2010年史蒂.拉森，成为Kindle百万读者俱乐部的第一位作者，他的千年三部曲售出了超过100万本电子书。

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On September 28th Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, unveiled a tablet computer called the Kindle Fire.

9月28日，亚马逊的老板杰夫•贝佐斯揭开了命名为KindleFire的平板电脑的面纱。

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Blount argues that the Kindle is sold and marketed as a "new, improved, multimedia version of books. "

Blount认为Kindle在销售、推广的时候都自称是“新型、完善、多媒体图书”。

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Mr. Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by saying "the whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore. "

Jobs曾鄙视过Kindle，说整个概念的核心就有瑕疵，因为人们已不再阅读。

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While Kindle 2 might help book publishers, it continues to frustrate periodical publishers.

Kindle2可能帮助图书发行商的同时也继续远离期刊出版商。

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The Kindle 2 will sell for $359 and, as with the first Kindle, will come with free wireless access to Amazon's store.

Kindle2售价为359美元，和第一代一样，它们都可以使用免费无线网络连接亚马逊书店。

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The Kindle is engineered to provide users with a reading experience as close to the printed page as possible.

Kindle被设计为给用户提供尽可能接近印刷纸页的阅读感受。

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The limitations of the Kindle don't offer any of these new storytelling methods, and the device will suffer accordingly.

Kindle的制约让它无法支持这些新型报道方式，而它将会受到iPad的影响。

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Comparing a Kindle and an iPad is like comparing a spoon to a Swiss Army knife.

Kindle和iPad之间的关系就好比一个是勺子，一个是瑞士军刀。

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The Kindle and the Nook's black-and-white screens may have reduced eye strain but they also stripped the aesthetics out of books.

Kindle和Nook的黑白屏幕虽然减轻了眼睛的压力，不过同样他们也破坏了图书的美观。

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As the Kindle and other examples show, this layer does not have much to do with the user interface or client device of old.

Kindle和其他一些例子说明，这一层与老的用户界面或客户设备并没有多少关系。

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The Kindle tells you your "location" in the book and gives the percentage of the book you've read, rather than showing a page number.

Kindle会告诉你在这本书中的“位置”，给出一个已读的百分比来，而不是显示页码。

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The Kindle will probably break records this holiday season, and continue to do well for those only in the market for an affordable e-reader.

Kindle将可能打破休假季的记录，并且持续在低端电子阅读器市场上高歌猛进。

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The Kindle 2 can hold about 1, 500 books, and one battery charge allows two weeks' reading.

Kindle可以存储1500本书，一块电池可供持续2周不间断的阅读。

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Our goal with the Kindle device is separate from the Kindle bookstore.

Kindle设备的销售目标与Kindle书店的销售目标是分开的。

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The Kindle is an unusual gadget in that it does not obviously target young people, or early-adopting technophiles.

Kindle是个不寻常的玩意儿，它并不以年轻人或者电子产品狂热者为目标客户。

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The Kindle Wireless uses the same 3G wireless technology as mobile phones.

Kindle无线平台使用与移动电话相同的3G无线技术。

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The Nook, priced at $259, went on sale Tuesday afternoon at nook. com, at a price that matched the latest edition of the Kindle .

Nook售价为259美元，于周二下午在nook.com上开始发售，价格跟最新版的Kindle不相上下。

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This month, Amazon lowered the price of its Kindle reader by sixty dollars to just under three hundred dollars.

本月，亚马逊网站将“激情”阅读器的价格下调了60美元，售价还不到300美元。

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And on Thursday it will from Apple and announce that it is opening up the Kindle to outside software developers.

本周四，亚马逊将效法苹果，向所有程序开发员开放Kindle应用。

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This week Amazon also rolled out a new range of Kindle e-readers, the cheapest of which costs just $79.

本周亚马逊还发布了新的几款电子书阅读器，其中最便宜的一款仅售79美元。

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The international launch sees a number of newspapers added to the Kindle Store, including the Daily Telegraph.

此次国际化版本的发布也带动了很多报纸加入了KindleStore，包括《每日电讯报》。

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Books and CDs are (mostly) easy to replace, or a good excuse to finally get an iPod and a Kindle .

大部份的书和CD很容易换新的，而我正好有借口添置一个IPOD和KINDLE。

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But Amazon's Kindle e-reader, which can run for two weeks on a charge, surely has enough battery life.

但是，Amazon的Kindle电子阅读器确实拥有足够长的电池续航时间，它充一次电就可以运行两周。

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