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Published 3/19/2009 by
By Brad Stone
New York Times at Technology
Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is today announcing a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle.
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