After talking a lot recently about their other model, the DR-950, ASUS has officially announced it’s DR-900 e-reader. The reader boasts a 9-inch, seems to operate with touch interaction, and boasts a battery life that supposed lasts 10,000 pages on a single charge, but beyond that, it’s pretty standard (as an iPad competitor). WiFi, 3G [...]
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February 22, 2010
New e-reader demos color e-paper
Liquavista demoed its new prototype for a color e-ink reader at CES today. It’s nowhere near ready, but it is impressive. If color e-ink truly comes to fruition in the near future, could it give the iPad a run for it’s money? The whole idea of e-ink was to eliminate strain on the eyes that [...]
February 5, 2010
Apple forces removal of USB sharing on Stanza iPhone reader
The Stanza reader for iPhone and iPod Touch is a free app that gives access to over 100,ooo books, most in the ePub format. It’s a fairly popular app, and last year it’s maker, Lexcycle, was acquired by Amazon. One of the unique features of the program is it’s ability to transfer your ePub books [...]
February 3, 2010
Creating valuable digital editions
Hey all! Figured I’d ease back in (late, I know…) with a post that’s not so much commentary, but it is interesting. Now that the publishing world is all a-fluster about the iPad, my next few posts are going to be about industry responses and new possibilities. I will try to keep my disdain for [...]
December 22, 2009
Sony begins shipping Reader Daily Edition
Sony’s latest reader, the Reader Daily Edition, has begun shipping out. The 3G enabled, touchscreen device went on sale earlier this month for $399 with estimated shipping between December 18 and Jan 8. They actually managed to land somewhere in between, but unless you already pre-ordered the device, you will have to wait. It is [...]
December 22, 2009
How much of your e-book is really yours?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has compiled a cool chart to help you find the right e-reader for you based on your security preferences. Just how private is your e-reader? Check it out below: EFF’s ebook-buyer’s guide to privacy via BoingBoing via Publisher’s Weekly
December 21, 2009
Scribd to break into Kindle market?
Scribd, a website largely known as a dumping ground for random, free documents, has recently started selling access to copyrighted works. Offering these works in multiple formats (Word, PDF, text) means that Kindle users can, in theory, download them onto their Kindles. When asked about the Kindle implications, Scribd CEO Trip Adler said that they [...]
