Ok, it doesn’t have a name yet, nothing cool like Papyrus or Kindle or what have you, but this week Plastic Logic unveiled a lightweight E-Ink newspaper reader roughly 8.5″x11″ that updates wirelessly. Its touch-screen interactivity allows users to make notations and offers video, if you can imagine. Read the full story about it here. It …
Category: eReaders
Machines that read eBooks, Business eDocuments, ePapers, etc.
Aug 06
Rupert can’t be serious…
Granted publishing billionaire Rupert Murdoch is a smart cookie, but we’ve been wondering if perhaps he’s finally hit the wall with the digital age. First he boasted getting onboard by designing his own handheld reading device, and then he more recently about-faced and was going to dump his ‘eReader’ in favor of providing content to existing eReaders. …
Jul 18
Walter Cronkite: 1916-2009
Walter Cronkite was a consummate news professional: perhaps the last of his breed. “The Most Trusted Man in America” helped to shape this new media that we’re bending out of true; that we’re beaming around the world and now reading and viewing on all manner of space age gadget and gizmo. I have missed his …
Jul 11
Rupert Murdoch’s About-face
Bajillionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced plans to invest in his own mysterious full-color eReader back in April of this year. Read about that here. Now Slashgear is reporting that Murdoch’s publishing empire will be focusing on subscriptions to existing eReaders. Murdoch said: “We’re very happy to have our products distributed over any device provided …
Jul 07
$249 Ditto eBook Reader has Arrived
Coming out of the blocks looking a lot like front-runner Amazon’s Kindle 2, the ‘wired’ eBook reader DITTO has leapt into the race with a crowd pleasing price of $249. Read the story at Publisher’s Weekly here. (Ditto = Digital Interface Total Text Organizer… glad they went with Ditto…) It’s clear that Kindle 2’s solid …
Jun 22
Breathing down Kindle DX’s Neck: Plastic Logic’s eReader…
Take a look at this video. Plastic Logic’s eReader is due out on the market in 2010 to give Kindle DX a run for the money. I wish it looked a little less like Kindle, to make the comparison more exciting, but what are you going to do. We talked about this eReader earlier in the …
Jun 12
Where is Apple’s Tablet?
Ok. We know Apple released its new iPhone 3G on Monday and re-priced it to sell at $199 (with strings attached.) Read about it here. But where is their Media-tablet (Media-pad)? We’ve reported rumors here and here about something bigger and sleeker on the drawing boards at Apple. Something with superior eBook reading capability… Steve Jobs didn’t …
Jun 11
And it’s WAR!
Okay. ‘War’ may be overstating, but you have to agree this is going to stir the pot. I love it! Borders is offering a Sony® Reader Digital Book PRS-505 with a list price of $299.99 for just $199.99. Check out the specifics here. It’s a sale, yes. A limited time offer too, but it’s exactly what …
Jun 06
CrunchPad is very cool…
CrunchPad seems to be out-tableting Apple’s rumored multi-purpose machine. (That’s supposed to have a fall release.) Billed as a doorway to ‘couch computing’ techcrunch’s CrunchPad is a slick and sweet little ride. Check it out here. They’re offering conceptual drawings now, and a first working prototype in weeks. With a rumored $300 admission, this is …
Jun 04
iRex Technologies Developing a High Quality, Full Color Digital Reader.
I don’t often direct link to press releases but everyone goes on so much…to a fault…about Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader that we kind of help set the stage for their posturing. There are lots of competitors out there, like iRex Technologies who brought the popular iLiad Reader to the European market. They’re now announcing the …
Good Reads
SPECIAL OFFER!
