Category: eReaders

Machines that read eBooks, Business eDocuments, ePapers, etc.

COOL GADGET! But will it help with gas mileage?

I won’t go on too much about this, check it out on Crave at Cnetnews. I just love the scifi lines on this ride. Bridgestone, the tire maker (surprised?), is developing a flexible eReading device. We talked about a reader from Bridgestone before, but this one looks quite different from the eReader in that article. I …

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HORROR AUTHOR TERRIFIES PUBLISHERS THIS HALLOWEEN WITH FAIR eBOOK PRICES!

This one’s fun for the end of October… I just put up the whole press release because I like his thinking, yah? There’s a contest for a FREE SONY eBOOK READER too! Here’s the link. TORONTO, ONTARIO – (Oct. 31/09) Horror author G. Wells Taylor hopes to shake things up in the exploding eBook marketplace …

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$149 eBook Reader from ECTACO

Bookseller.com has a story about a new eBook Reader that’s hitting the eBook Revolution at $149 (US). It’s maker, ECTACO, is declaring it the cheapest eReading machine on the market. The jetBook-Lite uses four AA batteries and promises 23 hours of continuous reading. On top of that it works with Barnes and Noble eBook store, and …

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enTourage eDGe DualBook Reader/Netbook

Okay, in the “keep a cool gadget a secret” department I give you the enTourage eDGe DualBook Reader / Netbook. Check it out at its homepage. So, am I the last to hear about this thing? A very cool machine with an E Ink display on one side and a 1024 X 600 pixel color touchscreen on …

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E Ink teams with Freescale for Integrated Processor Development

Thanks to Jorgen for stopping in with this link. The writing’s a trifle technical, but it promises enormous potential for designers in the way of innovation for product development. As the release explains: “Collaboration between [these] market leaders [will] speed eBook evolution and enable new product categories.” Read the full release here. It’s that product …

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Introducing Barnes and Noble’s “Nook”

The Barnes and Noble eBook Reader the “Nook” was launched yesterday at a 4 p.m news conference in Manhattan. Read the play by play on The New York Times Technology page here. At $259 it’s priced to compete with Kindle, also priced at $259. (That’s a missed opportunity… $239 would have sold a million of them and made …

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Global Kindle Finally Out of the Gates!

Amazon is shaking off those dreams of market monopoly, smelling the coffee and realizing there are some real world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand ambitions. Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read here at Channel Web for a story about the global Kindle’s migration to one hundred countries with …

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Que, the ProReader coming January 7, 2010

News at SoftSailor.com seems to confirm the rumors that have been bandied about forever regarding the Plastic Logic eBook reader. Read about it here. Called Que, the proReader, this device features an 8.5 x 11-inch capacitive touchscreen. Soft Sailor’s got pictures, or for more specifics you can take the link here to Que’s homepage at …

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Google Editions in 2010

More tough news for Amazon. Google will sell eBooks for any device through an online store called Google Editions that they plan to launch next year. The development announced in a release here at Reuters is a nice change for Google’s otherwise complicated press life as they battle the many challenges to Google Books. Google Editions …

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Barnes and Noble eBook Reader to Launch Next Week

ZDNet’s got the scoop and apparently pictures of the rumored Barnes and Noble eBook Reader designed and set to launch through a partnership with IREX and Plastic Logic. Read the story and see the pictures here. So this is going to heat things up, with Barnes and Noble’s long track record as book seller and distributor, …

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