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Blio Still Incoming – to Wal-Mart? 1 comment
The NYT reports that Ray Kurzweil’s Blio ereading software should be more widely available over the next couple of months. This as PC makers start to
include it on their machines. The article also suggests that Wal-Mart may offer the Blio software on a device of its own.
So will Wal-Mart have its own ereader? Kurzweil won’t elaborate, but he does say that Wal-Mart is “very excited” about something. Recent press releases have indicated that Wal-Mart is enlarging its consumer electronics department and it would not be inconceivable that it may try to develop its own ereader as it tries to take over the electronics section of the retailing world.
The Blio eReader software presents ebooks in the original format – layout, fonts and images are the same as in the original book. Blio is especially suited for graphics-rich books such as cookbooks, travel guides, textbooks, children’s books, etc. Purchased ebooks are permanently stored in a virtual library and can be transferred to your favorite device.
Blio also supports multimedia and includes study tools
such as translation, sticky notes, highlighting and bookmarking. You can even insert voice, image or video notes into your books and these can be exported to create study materials.
The Blio website lists the following as platforms the Blio eReader software will soon be available for:
- Windows and Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Symbian
- Windows Mobile
- iPhone
- Supported ebook formats currently are: XPS, PDF, ePub
I saw Blio at their booth at CES and it was pretty impressive, although I personally don’t like reading ebooks on my desktop or laptop. Blio should be very nice on the iPad and on smartphones though.
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