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EnTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous
1:52AM Matt Buchanan | Have you ever wondered how a bunch of people come up with the same brilliant idea at the same time? Like an ereader with two screens? Half of the enTourage eDGE is an e-Ink reader. The other’s an Android tablet. More »
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10:38AM Rosa Golijan | According to the WSJ, the Barnes & Noble reader will be announced tomorrow at $US259. Descriptions match our leaked photos exactly. They found the device through a premature ad shown on the NYTimes website! Who scooped who here? More »
WSJ Confirms Barnes & Noble “Nook” Reader Price At $US259
10:38AM Rosa Golijan | According to the WSJ, the Barnes & Noble reader will be announced tomorrow at $US259. Descriptions match our leaked photos exactly. They found the device through a premature ad shown on the NYTimes website! Who scooped who here? More »
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4:00PM Chris Oaten | Last week came news of a fresh reader from BeBook. Now Pioneer announces a new e-reader, the DreamBook eReader+, and the specs don’t look half bad. More »
Wait. Another E-Reader For Oz Market Lands
4:00PM Chris Oaten | Last week came news of a fresh reader from BeBook. Now Pioneer announces a new e-reader, the DreamBook eReader+, and the specs don’t look half bad. More »
Business
Sony, Of All Companies, To Ditch Proprietary eBook Formats
1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Sony, which we’ve blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers. Open, of course, doesn’t mean “free of DRM”: This is really a jab at Amazon. More »
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Busted: Why I Can’t Wait For Flexible Displays
8:26AM Matt Buchanan | When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded corduroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. If only its display was flexible. More »
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Kindle Rumours Say Next Version Coming Fall Will Be Thinner, Cheaper, Much More Stylish
3:45AM Jason Chen | The US$100 discount on the Kindles may be Amazon’s way of clearing out the first-gen to make room for the now all-but-certain second-gen this fall. Business Week says that Amazon’s hired a guy from frog design for the next version, which will have a better screen, thinner body, fewer UI annoyances and (obviously) be better looking. The price point is supposedly somewhere around the US$249-US$299 range, which might be right near the sweet spot that mainstreamers will start to pick one up as an impulse buy. That is, if mainstreamers ever really read anything. Students, on the other hand, would be a gigantic market for a Kindle Education Edition. [Business Week] More »
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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the “first sale” doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though. Four students at Columbia Law School’s Science and Technology Law Review looked at the particular issue of reselling and copying e-books downloaded to Amazon’s Kindle or the Sony Reader, and came up with answers to a fundamental question: Are you buying a crippled licence to intellectual property when you download, or are you buying an honest-to-God book? More »
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Amazon Kindle vs Sony Reader Bitchfight
6:10AM Jesus Diaz | Wired has compared the features of the new Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. They don’t give a definitive verdict yet, but point out the $400 Kindle’s biggest drawback: lack of “format neutrality.” Labeled as a “portable DRM bookstore”, the Kindle won’t be able to read open formats like Acrobat PDF. We agree. You will be the judge but, while the $300 Sony Reader may not have always-on Internet connectivity, looking at the specs it seems like a better option. At least on paper: AU: I take back my ‘I want one’ from yesterday. Having seen the fact they want to charge you for everything, even your own files, I’m thinking this is going to fail. It’s a less than elegant device design, too. Hmmm. -SB More »
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Sony Reader, New and Improved?
10:33PM Wilson Rothman | A literary tech site has spotted an alleged update to Sony’s not-terribly-popular Reader. The PRS-505 doubles the memory capacity of the original PRS-500—it can now hold 160 books rather than 80. The new Reader also has an improved E-Ink screen, comes in a choice of colours and has a much smarter button layout and interface. But will any of this fussing actually help sell Readers? More »
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