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it's Thursday November 3rd 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded amazon was already winning the war in eBook readers especially with the alluring new line of Kindle models at low prices and now amazon just kicked it up another notch amazon prime members can borrow digital books one book a month for free and there's no due date amazon prime though isn't free at seventy nine dollars a year that gets users free two-day shipping on purchases and access to amazon's free instant streaming video library now add to that access to more than 5000 free ebooks to borrow with more than 100 of them New York Times bestsellers the new nook color is supposed to be announced on Monday so we'll have to see how barnes noble will compete yesterday we reported on a proposal in congress that's aiming to charge state sales tax to online retailers the reason being it could be an unfair advantage when overstock.com or amazon.com doesn't charge state taxes amazon said they don't mind but ebay is fighting hard against it now the law would only impact businesses that make more than 500 thousand dollars in annual revenues so here's the catch for eBay sellers say you're a mom and pop shop with an actual brick-and-mortar store that meets that revenue even if you just sell a couple things on ebay you still have to deal with handling sales taxes for multiple states and that's a burden ebay says small business owners shouldn't have to deal with in mobile news Apple emitted there is a battery life problem in devices running iOS 5 due to a software issue and updates going to be pushed out over the next few weeks that addresses the complaints that the battery just drains too fast developers already have access to the update as of yesterday but while you iphone users wait for that update check out an innovative scanning app from amazon called flow just released yesterday it uses the camera to identify an item and pops up a link to buy it it also saves thumbnail links to your scans if you're in a hurry but enough about iphones there's news for blackberry users a new music service is launching today or tomorrow that's right research in motion is hoping to be a little more hip by getting in the music game but the way it works might seem a little complicated message your accounts pay five dollars a month to download 50 songs from the blackberry catalog and well there are more than 50 songs in the catalog but you only get to pick 50 the park is that if you have friends with the service you can access all of their 50 songs plus your own and expand your music collection that way so sharing songs on a monthly music service then the zune try that well if you sign up you better hope you have other blackberry friends with cool music tastes those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet com and you just been loaded