Can’t we all just get along? I love this stuff. Now Sony’s eBook Reader PRS-700 (a rumored new version is on the way too…) has joined forces with Google’s massive army of digitally scanned works, now converted to epub format. Read the story here or at Techtree.com. It’s all to get in the face of Amazon’s …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Mar 19
Fujitsu eBook Reader Raises the Bar…
Or does it? Now, I’m as impressed by Fujitstu’s FLEPia Color eBook Reader, as anybody. It’s a fantastic little machine. Read the story at cnet here. Honestly, it’s going to be as popular as Japan’s new robot girl. But I think we’re at a crossroads. At $1,000 it’s starting to push the price of eBook reading …
Mar 18
“Bande Dessinée” at the Paris Book Fair
 The Paris Book Fair  continues with a shift in focus to the companies Aquafada and MobiLire who have a different take on the eBook Reader. Read the full story at PCWorld here. They’re adapting smaller smartphones with software to display full-page comics and graphic novels on tiny screens. MobiLire is using a paintstaking process based …
Mar 16
FREE SONY eBOOK READER
I received this press release late, but there’s still time to get your name into the running. The full release containing contest rules is here. For the chance to win a FREE SONY eBOOK READER: “Interested persons can go to The Wild Rose Press website and purchase any of the books listed by participating authors, …
Mar 14
Well is it a Netbook, or an eBook Reader?
I’m betting it’s an eBook Reader. More rumblings from the Apple orchard about their Netbook. The full story here at Gizmodo.com. You’ll find similar whispering here at cnet news. They’re saying the same thing there with a bit more filling. We’ve already referenced this before here…that quote about truckloads of books being secretly scanned, yah? …
Mar 13
Love at First Sight…
But love, like the price of this beauty, can be a bitch. Brother’s SV-100B Bluetooth document viewer will catch your eye and capture your heart. Unfortunately at just under $1,500 it’s a better fit for pre-recession economies…even for corporate clientele. But it’s just so damned beautiful! Read the Engadget.com article featuring specs here, and view …
Mar 11
Pixelar e-Reader Joins In…
What reads any MOBI, PDF, LIT, EPUB, HTML, TXT, PRC, FB2, JPG file and a wide range of free RSS newsfeeds? The Pixelar e-Reader does. Slashgear.com reviews it here. Another contender in the expanding eBook reading market, the Pixelar e-Reader offers a number of the usual suspects including its 6″ x E-ink display set in a …
Mar 08
Okay Q, I can read on it, but will it light my ciggies?
Sony is offering the Ian Fleming Limited Edition Reader Digital Book. Check it out here. Model Number: PRS-505SC/007 this bad boy is built to enjoy more than it’s intended to break any boundaries. I’m just pleased the technology is already being co-opted by Hollywood… or advertisers… (What’s the difference, yah?) Next up: Something from Hogwart’s.
Mar 05
BUZZKILL ALERT!
This article about eBooks and eBook Readers from the snooty bastards at Time Magazine got my dander up. Read it here. I don’t offer it to venerate the snobbish tone, but to illustrate the kind of mocking resistance eBook and other technologies face from the establishment. (When I say “establishment” I mean, powers-that-be, status quo… …
Mar 04
First iPhone, now this rumored challenge to AMAZON’s attempt at eBOOK EMPIRE!
Over at the theiphoneblog.com you can hear rumbling that is being felt deep inside the Amazon, and might be the reason the tribe there is getting ready to launch a new touch-screen Kindle 3 in the fall. The growing phenomena of iPhone & iTouch eBook reading has the people at Apple watching with great interest, …
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