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Wall Street Journal and New York Post Confirmed For Sony Reader Daily Edition [SonyReader]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 18th, 2009

When Sony announced the Reader Daily Edition back in August, they hadn't confirmed which newspapers would be offered alongside the ebooks. It's just News Corp titles for now, with The Wall Street Journal and New York Post being confirmed.

A daily news summary will be on offer for WSJ readers, in addition to the digital version of the paper. The digital copy of the paper will sell punters back $14.99 a month, with the daily summary another $5, and the New York Post will cost $9.99 a month, exclusively sold on the Reader Daily Edition.

On sale sometime before 2010 (that's 13 days, then), it'll cost $399.99. [WSJ]




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eSlick Owners Get eBookstore of Their Very Own For Some Reason [EBookStore]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 9th, 2009

Foxit has created the eSlick Store to accompany its adorably inexpensive eSlick reader. But why?

It's great and all that eSlick now supports ePub and eReader in addition to PDF and TXT. But why a separate store that hosts 60,000 available titles when you can browse Barnes & Noble's million-plus eBook inventory instead? Especially when that separate eSlick store is run by a B&N subsidiary? More choice is always great, Foxit. But redundant choice is just clutter. [BusinessWire via Engadget]




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eSlick Owners Get eBookstore of Their Very Own For Some Reason [EBookStore]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 9th, 2009

Foxit has created the eSlick Store to accompany its adorably inexpensive eSlick reader. But why?

It's great and all that eSlick now supports ePub and eReader in addition to PDF and TXT. But why a separate store that hosts 60,000 available titles when you can browse Barnes & Noble's million-plus eBook inventory instead? Especially when that separate eSlick store is run by a B&N subsidiary? More choice is always great, Foxit. But redundant choice is just clutter. [BusinessWire via Engadget]




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Sony’s BBeB Ebook Format Joins ATRAC In The Land of The Dead, EPUB Ushered In [Sony]

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 8th, 2009

Sony's pulling a switcheroo on its customers, rebranding its "eBook Store" as "Reader Store" (see what they did there? Err...) but more importantly, changing formats from BBeB to EPUB. This is a surprising step forward for the proprietary-loving Sony.

Undoubtedly you would've battled Sony's formats in the past, so know what I'm referring to. The big change happens this Friday, with all books downloadable in the open EPUB format only. The third cherry on Sony's big surprise cake this week is that the Reader Library 3.1 software will also become available on Friday, bringing both Mac and PC support—head's up, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 users. [Sony]




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Sony Reader Store goes 100% EPUB on Friday

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 8th, 2009

Listen up Sony Reader owners: you've got three days to change your ways. On December 11th, the eBook Store from Sony will be renamed the Reader Store with a new URL to prove it. In addition to a new store layout, the change also extends the open EPUB format to Sony's entire inventory of eBooks. In fact, any new electronic books will only be available in EPUB which helps explain the motivation for Sony's PRS-500 trade-in program. As such, we can say goodbye to Sony's proprietary BBeB ("BroadBand eBook") format which goes the way of ATRAC (outside of Japan, anyway). Sony's also making its Reader Library 3.1 software for Mac and PC available on the same day with support for the imminent Reader Daily Edition launch and compatibility with Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard -- how timely.

Sony Reader Store goes 100% EPUB on Friday originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony offering ePub upgrade / trade-in program for PRS-500 e-reader

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 16th, 2009

Sony's already made its commitment to the ePub e-book format fairly clear, but it does still have a lingering problem with some older e-book readers that don't support the format. While some of those are beyond hope, the company does now have an upgrade available for the PRS-500, although it's not quite as simple as you may hope. Turns out you actually have to send your reader in to Sony to receive the firmware update, which is completely free of charge and should take less than 14 days. For those looking to make a clean break with the past, however, Sony is also offering a trade-in program for the PRS-500, which will give you either $50 or $75 off the new Reader Pocket or Touch editions. Hit up the link below for complete details on both options.

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Sony offering ePub upgrade / trade-in program for PRS-500 e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Foxit’s eSlick ereader now supports EPUB, puts Kindle to shame

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 6th, 2009

Foxit's eSlick isn't exactly the most exciting ereader of all time, but now things have changed slightly with the addition of EPUB support, making this $259.99 device a more affordable (although less pretty) alternative to the Sony Reader, and a more flexible option than the Kindle. We looked around and have yet to spot the new firmware's download link, but chances are devices shipped this month will come preloaded with the new code. Still, Barnes & Noble's identical price tag will easily overshadow this in a few weeks -- hello Nook, goodbye eSlick.

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Foxit's eSlick ereader now supports EPUB, puts Kindle to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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QUE proReader hitting Barnes & Noble retail stores in 2010

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 27th, 2009


In a rather odd unfolding of events, it seems as if Barnes & Noble is finally clearing up the mystery behind that Plastic Logic e-reader slated to hit its retail locations by Spring of 2010. After making said announcement, the book seller then went out and introduced an e-book reader of its very own in the Nook, and only now are we learning that the Plastic Logic-built QUE proReader will also be splashing down at the outfit sometime next year. In a brief release posted today, we're told that the recently teased big-screen reader (8.5- x 11-inches) will be sold throughout B&N's retail footprint and on its website; makes sense given that B&N is powering the proReader's online e-book store, but the fact that it'll be placed prominently near the outfit's own (somewhat competing) device is certainly interesting. We're expecting to see more come CES 2010, and seriously, with the rate at which these readers are hitting brick-and-mortar locations, Amazon might want to consider implementing some kind of physical trial in order to not go overlooked in its corner of the web.

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QUE proReader hitting Barnes & Noble retail stores in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Switched On: Making book with ePUB

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 25th, 2009

Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
The ePUB standard, developed by Adobe, allows consumers to purchase books at a variety of digital stores and use them on a wide range of compatible devices without the manufacturer having to explicitly support them. That may sound a bit like the PlaysForSure initiative that Microsoft tried mounting to challenge the iPod but ultimately shifted away from (at least for MP3 players) in favor of the Zune, but ePUB has a better shot than PlaysForSure did.

First, unlike PlaysForSure, which was playing catch-up to the already dominant iPod, ePUB is appearing relatively early in the market; it need not break anyone's "stranglehold." Second, after attracting the support of Sony, the format achieved a significant coup with the support of Barnes & Noble, which noted last week that it was "excited" to be supporting the format in its forthcoming Nook e-reader.

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Switched On: Making book with ePUB originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bookeen now shipping $280 Cybook Opus e-reader

Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 23rd, 2009


We admire Bookeen's resilience here, we really do. After last hearing about this e-book reader in May, we sort of assumed it had just given up on the matter. After all, it's WiFi-less and yet still as pricey as many of its rivals. That said, the Cybook Opus certainly looks different than most every other reader out there, so surely that counts for something. We're not saying it counts for $280, but if you are, you're approximately 1.389 clicks away from having one shipped to your domicile.

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Bookeen now shipping $280 Cybook Opus e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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