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  • Fujitsu shows off new prototype e-book reader

    Fujitsu shows off new prototype e-book reader

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    So fair warning, there’s not a whole lot of detail on this one. Fujitsu just showed off their latest e-book reader prototype at a trade show in Japan. It probably won’t hit the US, but expect to see it in Japan later this year. We’ll keep you informed when we get more information. [via Akihabara News]

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  • Another day, another e-reader: Gigabyte is working on one too

    Another day, another e-reader: Gigabyte is working on one too

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Revealed at CeBIT recently, we find that Gigabyte is building an e-reader of their own. Called the EB10, the new reader will be running Android on a 667Mhz Samsung processor. What makes this one different from the rest of the readers out there?

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  • Samsung shows off E61, the ebook reader with a bad keyboard

    Samsung shows off E61, the ebook reader with a bad keyboard

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    When is a qwerty keyboard a bad idea? When it's on the Samsung E61 e-book reader. The problem with this thing isn't just the ugly keyboard, or the fact that it's obviously "inspired" by the Kindle, it's that the Samsung E6 looks promising.

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  • Asus getting into the e-reader game in a big way

    Asus getting into the e-reader game in a big way

    Posted on January 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Asus leaked some information recently about their upcoming e-reader, the DR-570. Not content to be a "me too" with the standard black and white e-ink product, it looks like they are going to be coming out with an OLED offering that might just kick the rest of the e-readers to the curb.

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  • enTourage eDGe dualbook gets deals with academia

    enTourage eDGe dualbook gets deals with academia

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    The enTourage eDGe dualbook made its official debut at CES last week, along with lots of other e-book readers, dual-screen laptops, and more. We mentioned the eDGe book store, but that book store is gaining usefulness with the announcement of deals with publishers McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons, which will bring a number of academic texts to the dualbook. And enTourage has just inked a deal with Blackboard, a leading e-learning platform. More details inside.

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  • First hands on: Samsung E6 e-book reader

    First hands on: Samsung E6 e-book reader

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    So Matt and I just got our hands on the Samsung E6, the company’s first electronic book reader. As a device it’s not bad, but compared to what’s out there you just know that Samsung was all, “We need to release something to get a foothold in the market.” The 6-inch e-redaer slides open, quite possibly [...]

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  • The Dulin’s Books Boox 60 packs Wi-Fi into a $350, 6-inch e-reader

    The Dulin’s Books Boox 60 packs Wi-Fi into a $350, 6-inch e-reader

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The US e-reader market is about to get one more player when Dulin's Books brings its Boox 60 reader to the States in the middle of January. But even though it packs a lot of tech into its shell like W-Fi, Wacom technology, and a Webkit browser, chances are it won't ever make it mainstream thanks to the Kindle, Nook, and Reader.

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  • Yet another new e-book reader – this one looks vaguely familiar

    Yet another new e-book reader – this one looks vaguely familiar

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like 2010 is turning out to be the year of the e-book reader. I'm not sure at what point these are going to stop being news, but here we go again. Insdream is launching the SX601 which seems to borrow some significant design ideas from another rather popular e-book reader. The Insdream does use a different type of screen from the source material (can you say Kindle), but looks pretty much the same otherwise.

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  • Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The color e-books are coming! The color e-books are coming!

    The color e-books are coming! The color e-books are coming!

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    More competition is the color E-book market can only be a good thing. The Nook is just sort of in color, the Kindle is the 800 pound gorilla, no one knows what exactly Apple's got planned, and now there's this new guy Paradigm Shift, talking about launching a full-color e-book reader at CES. Bet they wish they'd come to market before the holidays.

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  • KLM considering handing out e-book readers to passengers (bad idea)

    KLM considering handing out e-book readers to passengers (bad idea)

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    In-flight movies might not be the only form of airline-provided entertainment on KLM flights. The airline is considering handing out e-book readers after the idea won a contest offered up by the airline. The idea beat out Online Tax-Free Shopping and placing wind turbines under the runways. (yeah, I don't get that either) But as fun and exciting as free e-books seem, it would be a technical nightmare. Your mom barely knows how to use her cell phone, let alone a newfangled e-book reader. KLM might as well hire a Geek Squad agent for every flight.

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  • Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries

    Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    We all now know that Kindle is more than an e-book for Amazon -- it's an entire digital content platform with aims on world domination, which explains why the company has felt more than comfortable releasing software-based readers for other platforms. To that end, they've announced that Kindle for iPhone is now ready for download in over 60 additional countries, which probably overlaps as a pretty beefy subset of the list of countries to which the actual Kindle is shipping. And, unlike the real thing, you'll actually be able to browse the full web with your iPhone -- not to say that HTML on an E Ink display was ever a very satisfying experience to start.

    Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Entourage announces e-book store for eDGe dualbook

    Entourage announces e-book store for eDGe dualbook

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    The Entourage eDGe, the world's first "dualbook" is a dual-screen laptop / e-book reader hybrid thingie. The laptop portion is pretty straightforward, but what about the e-book? In the already crowded e-book space, how can the eDGe compete? Well, today they've announced they're very own e-book store. That's right, a device that is not yet in anyone's hands now has its own bookstore. All sarcasm aside, this is a pretty good move to demonstrate the long-term commitment from Entourage to the eDGe, even if it is yet another e-book store (okay, so maybe it wasn't all sarcasm aside). Read on for the whole press release.

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  • Introducing the $1,500 Intel e-book reader

    Introducing the $1,500 Intel e-book reader

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    The Amazon Kindle costs $260. The Barnes and Noble Nook costs $260. The Sony reader is $300. Clearly there's an established price point for what we call an e-book reader. Jumping into the e-book fray comes the Intel Reader, for fifteen hundred U.S. dollars. No WiFi, no associated book store, but it does include a 5 megapixel camera, and a host of features designed to make it the best choice for vision impaired people.

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  • IREX e-reader listed at Best Buy for $449

    IREX e-reader listed at Best Buy for $449

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    With all the talk about the nook lately, you might have forgotten that this is ending up as being the year of the e-book reader. Just to remind you, pricing leaked today on the IREX DR 800SG reader.

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