Archive for July 29th, 2009
Samsung Releases New eBook Reader in South Korea no comments
Developed under the working title of Papyrus, but now known as the SNE-50K, Samsung has released its new ereader. Smaller than the Kindle 2 with a screen size of only 5 inches, the SNE-50K has a screen resolution of 600 x 800 pixels. It also comes with 512 mb of internal memory.
At launch there are only 2,500 e-books available through Kyobo Bookstore, Samsung’s collaborator on the device. The SNE-50K may move to markets in other countries next year. To read more and to see pictures visit Crave.
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Barnes & Noble eBook Store no comments
This week Barnes and Noble launched its new ebook store which is said to contain 700,000 titles. This number includes approximately 500,000 free public domain titles available through Google Books. Next year Plastic Logic’s ebook reader will hit the market and Barnes & Noble will be supporting it with their ebookstore.
By using Barnes & Noble’s reader software the ebooks are currently readable on Mac and Windows computers, iPhones and iPod Touches and several PDA phones.
There is a thoughtful article about Barnes & Noble’s new ebook service in the Washington Post, where it gets a mixed review; and some also interesting follow-up thoughts at TeleRead concerning DRM.
