AFP – Amazon released a free program on Thursday that allows Kindle electronic books to be read on Apple’s Mac computers and said they will also be available on the upcoming iPad.

AP – Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad.

AP – Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be “like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons,” a new consumer survey suggests.

AFP – Techno-hip trend-setters that design online services, software, buildings and other components of modern life have been told to “get off the sidelines” and start saving the planet at a key high-tech event.

AFP – The good news for traditional US news organizations? Their websites are popular. The bad news
