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WSJ / Jennifer Maloney / Jun 26, 2015

Bookerly will be rolled out as an over-the-air update to Kindles in the next few weeks; Literata came to Google Play Books in May. —LO

Tags: Amazon, ebooks, fonts, Google, typography

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