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Hearst Interactive Backing Kindle-Like E-Book Reader Startup FirstPaper

Apr 5, 2008 2:52 PM

Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned, and the separate venture is called FirstPaper. The stealth startup is based in Palo Alto and New York City. It is developing this device based on Linux and will have some…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Hearst, firstpaper

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