Fujitsu demo color ereader prototype; launch in 2010

The new Fujitsu prototype has arrived (story thanks to SlashGear)

Onda VX560 looks like a slate, acts like a PMP, outputs 1080p

ENGADGET have come up with another company taking a step into the hybrid market.

This little beauty has 1080 video output via HDMI, a 7" screen and a heap of video and ebook formats plus text-to-speech.

Now all they need to tell us is the release date and price!!
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ENGADGET have reviewed the KOBO $149.00 reader

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At $149.00 does the ereader still have a place in the carry bag beside the ipad or HP tablets??

Your thoughts ??

...and now!! the DIY book scanner - just $20

The latest in DIY technology with thanks to WIRED GADGETLAB
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ViewSonic announce their new ereader

...and here is another one...or two would be more speficic...the VEB 620 and 625 from Viewsonic...and they look pretty good. Only available for Euro release so far.

Elonex announces iDock XL, iDock Aero and £99 710EB e-reader

GADGETELL has done a great report on the the ELONEX booth at The Gadget Show Live and last but not least, the company outdoes itself with a £99 ($152) 7-inch color-screen e-reader, dubbed the 710EB. There weren't any working demo units to show off the pretty interface and Elonex's eBookstore (in partnership with British bookstores Waterstone's and WHSmith), nor were there many specs to look at, but we're promised a mid-May launch for this ARM-powered device. More grist for the mill?

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Rumor: Amazon Kindle coming to Target

It looks like April 25th is T-Day when the Kindle heads to Target...and with the NOOK off to Best Buy...one has to wonder what these companies are moving on to??

Kindle "easy to read - even in bright sunlight

OK...here we are at the ereader open tennis to watch two leaders in the game go head to head. Both players are warmed up and its AMAZON to serve......
In a move aimed directly at the critical comments about IPAD not working well in sunlight, Amazon have launched a new Kindle Ad....

That's an ACE....Kindle lead 15-0.

Smart Devices release new ereader

Interesting move given the IPAD release but there is a new ereader on the market!!
Apparently this unit will have a 7" screen with 800 x 600 resolution
Is the release of a new ereader a waste of time at this point? Smart Devices have their own tablet which contains an ereader so is the release of a stand-alone unit a good thing? Let us know what you think.....

Plastic Logic investor denies company for sale

CNET advise that, despite what we heard earlier, Plastic Logic (makers of the "currently not seen in captivity" QUE) is not for sale.
"The Financial Times suggests that Plastic Logic backer Hermann Hauser was interested in a buyer for the maker of the yet-to-hit-the-market Que ProReader, quoting Hauser as saying the company was "in very interesting negotiations." However, Hauser said Tuesday that his comments were misconstrued."
The problem they have, as far as I can tell, is that they haven't released the product yet and with IPAD on the loose and other readers looking at upgrades et al....it seems to me they may have missed the boat.
Any thoughts?

Will Amazon drop their KINDLE price??

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Amazon ought to cut the price of the Kindle: he suggests a reduction to $149, from the current $259.
In an interview with Barrons Tech Trader Daily, Munster says he told his firm’s sales force today that AMZN shares are likely to be under pressure for a few weeks as the Street worries about the iPad eating into Kindle sales. As he notes, Amazon provides no data at all on Kindle unit sales; he estimates that Kindle sales lifetime to date are in the 2-3 million range. (By contrast, he sees calendar 2010 iPad sales of 2.7 million, and says that number may be conservative.)
Munster adds that he would discourage Amazon from trying to compete more directly with the iPad, a battle he thinks they would almost certainly lose. “They should stick to what they’re good at,” he says.
Will they do it...or is it all guesswork

Penguin and Hachette still out of the Kindle loop

Following on from the earlier blog about Simon and Schuster and Harper and Collins siging new deals with Kindle it appeared that all was going much more smoothly in the kindle camp....but this may not be the case. The following. The following statement was releassed by Amazon Kindle
"We recently signed an “agency” agreement with Hachette and we are working with them to offer their books under these terms in the coming days. This means we will not be selling Hachette ebooks in the interim. Update: Hachette has disallowed the sale of ebooks except on agency terms effective as of 12:01 am this morning. We came to terms late last night but we cannot be operationally ready to sell their ebooks on agency terms until two days from now — April 3 — when we will also cut over for the other publishers that are switching to agency. If we can get a two day extension from Hachette to continue selling their ebooks under the prior terms, we can have the Hachette ebooks promptly back for sale today. If not, then they will be back on April 3"
What do you think?

WSJ iPad app priced: $17.29 each month

We all thought that this story was a fraud when it came out but SLASHGEAR advises that its all true. The question is...will people pay the price for access. Rupert Murdoch obviously thinks so.
Is $17.29 per month reasonable for access to the Business, Markets and Opinion sections, among others?  Only you know how much you value the WSJ’s insight to answer that.  Still, it seems on the heavy side given Apple’s tablet was supposed to be the salvation to ailing print margins.
Tell us what you think...

iBooks app meets App Store, produces US-only iBookstore offspring

Engadget advises that you should get ready to welcome some amazing wood grain effects into your lives, future iPad owners, for the iBooks app has just landed at the App Store. Proudly proclaimed as being "designed exclusively for the iPad," this app gives you direct access to the iBookstore, which will offer free samples of books ahead of purchase and a brand new way for you to channel money into Cupertino pockets. Built-in search, highlighting and bookmarking features are augmented by text-to-speech functionality and ePub format support. Funnily enough, iBooks will only support DRM-free ePub files sourced from outside the iBookstore, but no mention is made as to whether its own wares will be similarly unimpeded. Speaking of restrictions, the whole operation is still limited to the United States, leaving the Stephen Frys of this world sighing wistfully from across the pond.
Give us your thoughts on this story.

Publishing Partners and the iBookstore (courtesy of SlashGear)

The iBookstore is one of the topics that’s been the most discussed since the announcement of the iPad. For good reason. Many people believed that the Apple tablet would change everything about the digital disbursement of books, and in some ways, they were right. It took a lot of work to finally achieve the spot they’re at now, but it seems to the world that Apple’s iBooks are going to be priced from: free to $14.99. That $14.99 is the ceiling, and it’s been suggested that books won’t be going over that, no matter their spot on the New York Time’s Bestselling list, or their hard cover pricing. It should be noted that none of this has been made official by Apple quite yet, but with a few leaks of the iBookstore shop, we’re pretty sure that the pricing discussed is what we will see in the final product.
Here is a list of the announced publishing partners (so far):

• Penguin
• HarperCollins
• Simon & Schuster
• Hachette Book Group
• Macmillan

This list is going to grow over time, we’re sure. Publishers will see that the eReader function on the iPad is just as good as the competitions, and much like developers have flocked to the App Store, publishers will work with Apple to bring their books to the iBookstore. There’s no telling how long that will take, but we’re sure it will happen.

• As for magazines, newspapers, and the like, there’s a small army being built to support the iPad
  
  
  
  • The Wall Street Journal — $17.99/month for subscription
  • The New York Times
  • Wired
  • GQ
  • Vanity Fair
  • The New Yorker
  • Glamour
  • National Geographic
  Again, these numbers are going to grow. As people realize the functionality of the iPad, and how interaction with what people are reading will bring in new customers to subscription-based platforms, more publishers will jump on board. Only time will tell when, but we can’t imagine it lasting much longer after iPads ship out to customers this Saturday.

Simon and Schuster and Harper and Collins get on board with Kindle

Well, according to the Washington Journal Amazon has agreed to stop discounting its best sellers which will mean we should now get access to a much better and broader range of new novels...of course the price will be higher. So what do you think...do you prefer the cheaper prices or would you pay a bit more for the better content?
This of course is a reaction to the IPAD...are ereaders already a thing of the past?
What a way to start the new month.