e-Book

Creative Throws Their Hat Into The E-Book Ring: Zii MediaBook

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All the tech news sites (including this one) have dedicated an enormous amount of time, effort, and words discussing the Apple iTablet. Despite the fact that such a product may not and may never exist, every rumor and analyst speculation about it has been picked apart and discussed to death. While we were busy geeking out over this mythical gadget, Creative was busy actually building the damn thing.

That's right; Epizenter reports that, at their Annual General Meeting, Creative made a surprise announcement. They unveiled a working prototype of their very first e-reader, tentatively named the Zii MediaBook. This MediaBook isn't your standard black-and-white e-ink reader either. It's got a touchscreen, text-to-speech functionality, and an SD slot. Creative also says it will be 'Internet-enabled', but didn't elaborate if that meant 3G functionality or WiFi (or both).

Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:39:25 CST | by Robert Evans

Amazon Kindle e-Book the most important Thing Amazon has ever done

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As reported Amazon is supposed to introduce a e-book reader gadget today. Newsweek has published a indepth cover story on the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader already.

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Amazon Kindle on Sale

For Jeff Bezos the Kindle e-book reader is the most important thing Amazon has ever done. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:34:57 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader comes Monday

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CNET reports that Amazon will unveil its e-book reader device on Monday.

Currently known as Kindle the e-book reader is supposed to have wi-fi connection to directly access the Amazon e-book store. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:23:54 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

CafeScribe offers e-books with old Book Smell

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Cafescribe is planning to offer e-books with sniff stickers that smell like old books.

A survey of 600 college students found that 43% identified smell as a quality they most liked about a physical text book.
Reason enough for CafeScribe to send out scratch and sniff stickers with a musty old book smell to customers beginning in September. Read more

Posted on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:18:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony Launches e-Book Gadgets and Publishing Venture

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Just when the e-book market looks very gloom (see recent story on CNet), Sony and 15 other companies form a Joint Venture developing electronic publishing service.

The new company, Publishing Link Ltd., will distribute book content over the Internet and Sony will sell the hardware used to read the content. The service is to start in spring 2004.
Under the plan, members will be able to download content and read it using personal computers and the Sony manufactured e-book players for a two-month period for each book. More on this at The Washington Times

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