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more about #readers Pope John Peeps II: This is fucking retarded. Hardware developers are basically sitting around masturbating now. What are they thinking? That if they release a great prod... more » bonedog73: What year is this? 1980? The whole point of being an e-book is portability which this thing is not....huge huge! more » TonyWonder: excuse my language but is this a fucking joke?.... why is the bezel that large? are you kidding me? that design is laughable... more » weatherman: Forgiving the bulk and bugs associated with a 1st generation product, I'm just not sure I see the need for this thing. It doesn't really seem to offer... more » LVP: Holy bezel batman! more » mnerd: Wouldn't it have made more sense to make the e-ink screen the touch screen? I don't need my touch keyboard in full color. more » RodericaAstraea: I'm just wondering how college bookstores will screw over students in the future with "New" and "Used" downloadable book content... hmmm... more » jrblackman006: Ebooks have saved the planet. Within a couple of weeks no one will be reading paper books. As a result the paper industry will collapse and all the ... more » The5thElephant: I'm really curious what one of the top publishing execs would say to some of the well worded and thought out comments I have read below. Is this blin... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Their reaction reminds me of the same thinking the photo industry had regarding film versus digital. Even with having digital cameras around for many... more » .Trenchant.: I think the second trouble to this is what people aren't realizing though... Digital is simply destroying these industries. Everyone expects stuff fo... more » Jimmy1: In the e-book age, publishers will need to refashion themselves as editorial and marketing services for authors. Once their distribution, printing an... more » bagellord: I love to read. That's why I want an ereader for Christmas. I don't want to wait several months every time a new book comes out. I'll glady pay $15-$2... more » Segador: You'd think Amazon and B&N would have ironed these sorts of publisher deals out before putting so much behind the Kindle/Nook. They're the kind of dev... more » thechansen: It seems like the Internet based media/entertainment services, are the only ones who "get it". Publishers, the music industry, magazines, newspapers,... more » ahbi: Idiots! 1) Another thing they need to wrap their heads around is that $10 per book price. That is the trade paperback price and if they are saving al... more » fuchikoma: It's funny that when I saw "Libre" I thought "Librie" (Sony's first reader) but now that I double-check the Librie, this looks a lot closer to a PRS-5... more » weatherman: Folks who would consider this at $179 vs the Kindle or nook are the same kind of folks who would spend $55,000 on a replica Lambo, when they could jus... more » unique172: Reflective LCD, cool. Too bad it's fugly. more » FigNinja: Looks like the Jetbook under a different brand. [www.jetbook.net] more » -
#entourage
Hands-on with the Entourage Edge
With all the buzz over the tiny LCD screen on the bottom of the Nook, I was excited to get some time with the Entourage Edge, a device that pairs a large E Ink screen with a 10-inch LCD touchscreen. More » -
#readers
Borders and Kobo Team Up to Develop a New Reader
Borders is teaming up with a company called Kobo and making some grand plans. They apparently intend on developing a new ebook reader, a new ebook service, and having all the content be "device neutral." Pretty big task there, fallas. More » -
#ebooks
Aluratek's $179 LCD-Based Libre eBook Reader Goes Cheap
The Libre eBook Reader PRO has a 2GB SD card with a monochrome reflective light LCD instead of an e-Ink display, which puts into a different bucket than the other eBook readers shipping recently. Plus, it's only $179. More » -
#springdesign
Spring Design's Injunction to Stop Barnes & Noble's Nook Sales Denied
While waiting for a court date over an intellectual property dispute, Spring Design wanted to stop Barnes & Noble from selling the Nook. Their injunction for that's been denied today, but they shouldn't really worry much over that anyway. More » -
#time
The Superfriends of Publishing Have a Grand Digital Plan to Save Magazines
That "Hulu for magazines" is happening. It's impressive in its sense of scope and desperation, with Time, Hearst and Conde Nast—bitter rivals that publish more than 50 magazines altogether—coming together to save print magazines by mummifying them digitally. More » -
#ebookreaders
Barnes & Noble's Nook May Violate Spring Design's Alex Reader Intellectual Property
Spring Design's Alex reader seemed very similar to Barnes & Noble's Nook. I thought that Spring Design was the copycat, but based on the lawsuit they filed for violation of intellectual property, it may be the other way around. More » -
#readers
First Flexible Ebook Reader Developed By Tiremaker Bridgestone
When not making tires, Bridgestone is working on ebook readers so flexible that they'd probably survive being driven over. They've even got a prototype ready for testing, but no plans to commercialize the slender and bendy device at this point. More » -
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#ereaders
MSI's eReader Will Have Nvidia Tegra Graphics in 2010
That rumor about an MSI eReader looks good-to-go: their chairman acknowledges a reader with Tegra graphics is coming, but they're ironing out some problems at the moment. Meanwhile, Asus also has some some cool-sounding readers in the works. [DigiTimes] -
#readers
Spring Design Alex Reader Hands On Video
Such fantastic timing for the Spring Design Alex reader to show itself on video. Dual-display, Android...feels familiar and looks good too. Now if only we had some pricing and release info. [YouTube via Engadget] -
#reader
enTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous
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 » -
#ebookreaders
Budget Cool-er Reader with Color Touchscreen and 3G Planned for Early Next Year
When we reviewed the Cool-er reader, we liked its lower price, but felt it lacked the polish of the Kindle. Well, now Interead says it's working on a color Cool-er that should not only be touch-capable, but low-priced, too. More » -
#ebookreaders
Asus Eee Reader Could Have Dual Color Touchscreens
So about that Asus e-book reader expected by Christmas: The Times suggests that not only could it have dual color touchscreens like the prototype Asus showed at CeBIT (pictured), but it might even undercut Sony and Amazon on price. More » -
#amazon
Amazon Tries to Make Amends for Deletion of 1984 with Warm Words, Cold Hard Cash
Remember Amazon's remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro' Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with either $30 checks or redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). More » -
#ebookreaders
Kindle is More Environmentally Friendly Than Old-School Books
According to an analysis by the Cleantech Group, the Kindle is more environmentally friendly than plain ol' paper books, assuming you're not a freak who reads less than five books a year. More » -
#asus
Asus Eee E-Book Reader Could Arrive by Christmas
The company's top dog, Jerry Shen, told DigiTimes that it will arrive by the end of 2009 at the earliest. Also unexpected (and less confirmed): the report says "industry sources" believe MSI is sniffing out the E-Book space, too. More » -
#battlemodo
Wireless Ebook Readers: Which One'll Burn Down the Bookstore?
With the Sony Reader Daily Edition, the 3G-enabled ebook reader battle is pitched. At the end of this year, it'll fight Amazon's Kindle 2 and DX and Plastic Logic's eReader to the death. Here's how they all stack up now: More » -
#kindledx
Kindle DX Sells Out In Two Days
Kindle DX (reviewed here) just started shipping Wednesday on Amazon and it's already sold out. Either people really love that DX, or the Earth only produces enough resources to sustain manufacturing a few units at a time. [Amazon via Macworld] -
#meetup
Gizmodo WWDC Meetup Tonight @ Hotel Utah in SF
If you're in town for WWDC and want to get a drink with us, Ars, Boingboing, Wired and Chris Hardwick, head to the Hotel Utah today at 5:00. See you there. [Hotel Utah Site]
