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Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
9-inch Asus DR-900 e-reader unveiled with 3G option
Asus is having a big day over at CeBIT in Germany. The company has also made an official announcement about its upcoming DR-900 e-book reader. Based on the picture and the description that the screen displays “crisp, paper-like” pages, the touchscreen is probably only grayscale. (Yes, there are color publications, but I’m thinking newspaper print-style [...]
E-books for the Nintendo DS
Electronic reading, whether it be via slate, phone or dedicated e-reader, has been a huge development as of late. It comes as little surprise, then, that Nintendo has announced its 100 Classic Books cartridge for release in the US on June 14. Containing 100 public-domain books packaged in a relatively attractive library format, the collection [...]