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eReader & Tablet News – 11/24/2010 no comments
OverDrive has announced that they now have Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists, winner of the Giller Prize, available for Canadian libraries. The ebook is available at Kobo, but only for Canadian customers. This is really too bad — the author is probably missing out on a lot of sales due to this silliness.
At Amazon UK, The Sentimentalists
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OverDrive recently announced that next month it will finally be releasing an iPhone app that will let you read borrowed library ebooks on your iPhone. Supposedly iPad and Android apps are forthcoming as well. OverDrive has been taking its sweet time with these reading apps.
Now there is an alternative, for the iPad and iPhone at least. The Bluefire reader is free at iTunes and supports Adobe DRM. You should be able to read not only ebooks from your library (as long as their digital books use Adobe DRM), but ebooks purchased from many online sellers.
Bluefire also supports PDF files and includes a Get Books feature that lets you purchase ebooks from within the app. It would be nice if an Android version is also in the works.
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Pocketbook accidentally released a press release yesterday in which they inadvertently revealed they would have a new Mirasol-powered ereader on show at CES 2011. Nate at The Digital Reader was told by a source at Pocketbook that the Mirasol based ereader will not be released until Q3 2011.
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Yesterday Amazon launched Amazon.it, its new Italian-language site. Amazon.it launched with more categories than any previous Amazon website has had at launch.
"On August 3, 1995, we shipped our first order to Italy from the U.S.," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "A customer in Genova ordered a book called ‘Ranks of Bronze’. Since then, we’ve shipped millions of items across a broad range of categories to customers in Italy, from our websites around the world. We are now excited to open our virtual doors directly to Italian customers."
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Pandigital has a new color LCD ereader. The new model
has a 9-inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Overall size of the new ereader is 5 x 7 x 0.5 inches and it weighs in at a hefty 20.5 ounces. Format support includes ePub and PDF as well as music and picture files. The Barnes & Noble ebookstore is the official content partner.
The 9-inch Pandigital ereader is $213.80 at QVC.
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Sony will finally have a reading app for Android and the iPhone available in December. This according to a new page at the Reader Store. It’s about time!
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Yasmin Studios has released an interactive version of Snow White for the iPad. Snow White – Children’s Interactive Storybook HD features graphics and animation, professional narration, optional music and characters that can be moved and respond to touch.
Snow White – Children’s Interactive Storybook HD is available at iTunes for $0.99. Yasmin Studios also has several other children’s ebook apps available.
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Bondi Digital Publishing has put every copy of Playboy magazine published from 1953 to 2010 on a hot-swappable USB hard drive that you can buy for $299.95. There are over 650 issues and more than 100,000 pages.
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PocketBook to Introduce Five New eReaders at IFA 2010 no comments
Pocketbook has announced that it will be introducing five new ereaders at the IFA 2010, which takes place in Berlin September 3 to 8.
The PocketBook Pro 602 and Pro 902 share the same specs, with the exception of the 602 having a 6-inch screen and the 902 having a 10-inch screen. Both models have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G; are Linux-based and have 2GB of internal memory.
The PocketBook Pro 603 and Pro 903 ereaders will add a Wacom-based touch screen. Battery life on all four of the above e-ink ereaders is said to be 7,000 page turns.
PocketBook will also release a 7-inch color LCD ereader/tablet dubbed the PocketBook IQ. This Android-based device will have a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and will be available in three colors.
Pictured below from left to right: Pro 602, Pro 903 and IQ.
Additional common features:
- PocketBook offers ebooks through its own Bookland.net store. A number of languages are supported.
- TTS is supported in 28 different languages. Four languages come preinstalled on the new PocketBooks.
- 16 formats are supported; DRM by Adobe.
- Integrated dictionaries in 20 languages.
- 2-year warranty.
The new models should be available in November.
Nate at The Digital Reader says that he has heard from sources that PocketBook is to be one of the initial Mirasol partners. I hope this is true and that we could actually see Mirasol displays in products on store shelves soon. I really don’t want to be a Mirasol skeptic as it is very cool technology and would be far more capable than first generation color displays from E Ink. Mirasol has been sending mixed signals lately about when its displays would actually be in production.
