This week in the press (2009-12-08)

Digital Edition & Library

• Who's afraid of this little white tablet?
• Something to Read: A Holiday Guide to E-Readers
• Google offers publishers means to attract paying readers
• British Library packs its least requested items into new, robot-operated facility in Leeds
• Joy Kim: What Manga I Bought This Year
• ANN: 2009's Top-Selling Manga in Japan, by Series
• ICv2: Graphic Novel Circulation Numbers
• ICv2: Library Moves 'Black Dossier', But Keeps Available
• Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text
• Le groupe Hearst veut lancer un «e-reader» pour journaux et magazines
• Publisher Lays Out Plan to Save Newspapers

Influenza A(H1N1)

• Still too early to declare swine flu pandemic over: WHO
• H1N1 death toll similar to regular flu: study

Media & Culture

• Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale
• 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' Muppet-Style

Science & Technology

• Apple's newest iMac a fabulous home computer
• Gadgets fill in gaps for seniors
• Les astuces japonaises pour combiner technologie et environnement
• Book Learning: QUESTIONS FOR JEFFREY P. BEZOS
• App Store Is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry
• Google lance discrètement un dictionnaire-traducteur
• Boxee, a Start-Up, to Offer a Device to Put Web Video on TV

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