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Today's e-Reads: Spinning Off the Nook; Plus, Advice for Yahoo

Updated: January 5, 2012 | 11:38 a.m.
January 5, 2012 | 11:37 a.m.

Barnes & Noble says it may spin off its growing Nook e-book reader business from its core bookstore business to better fight competition from Amazon’s Kindle, the Associated Press reports.

Slate wonders if we can unplug from the Web using “Freedom,” a program that unplugs you.

VentureBeat has some business advice for new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.

Here’s a how-to video on using a Kindle app on your smartphone. 

More on Kodak teetering on the brink of bankruptcy from The Wall Street Journal.

Faster wi-fi is coming, and The Wall Street Journal tells you how. 

Apple will pay Elan Microelectronics $5 million to settle a patent dispute, Reuters reports.

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