There was a time not too long ago when we were starved for ebook readers. Now the market’s flooded. In addition to the Amazon Kindle, there’s the Kobo from Borders, Sony’s Reader and now the latest from BeBook, the BeBook Club.
Based on the BeBook Neo, the Club is yet another 6-inch e-ink screen with battery life enough for 12,000 page turns or 25 hours worth of music playback. It’ll read pretty much any file format you send at it, bar of course Amazon’s, and promises to be available “at a fraction of the cost” of other readers, although I can’t find exactly what that fraction is.
But, choice is choice, right?
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Colin Richardson
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 3:53 PMHas anyone actually compared the price of the “ebooks” to the real thing? I really can’t see the point of having an Ereader unless the prices of the the device and especially the books come down.
I would happily buy them if there was a saving involved, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Six pack
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 8:01 PMWell you buy an ereader, then you grab all your books for free. Same as buying tv and then watching all new movies for free – unless you have some morality issue with this? Seems a pretty big saving to me.
Greg
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:56 AMAs an author, yes I do have a morality issue with it.
I agree with Colin on the price and can’t really understand it either. I would rather sell 100 @ 20c than 1 @ $10.
Sood
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 1:09 AMimho eReaders are excellent devices – you can take a whole library of books on small postage stamp sized sd card media, and there are many sources of excellent free ebooks.
My main gripe is evil DRM – they charge you usually more than the paperback version (??!!) and restrict you, so you cant (easily) convert it to your favourate reading format and limit you to devices. Out of principle I only buy non DRM books to supplement my huge library of free ebooks.
I frequent eReader forums and ironically general concensus among them is most will break the drm to read the books they legitimately bought.
I do also agree with Colin about ereader prices – cost way too much, although the latest amazon and bebook ereaders are slightly more reasonable.
robyn
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 12:02 PMhave just bought a bebook club am lookingforward to useing it i hope i haveno problems