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On Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe's best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.

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They may be cheaper and more convenient, writes Andrew Keen, but ebooks do not represent meaningful cultural progress.

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After researching some different eBook readers for Blackberries, I'm proud to say that I'm very impressed with the Mobipocket eBook Reader. In fact, I'm obsessed with it! Anyway, you can download books to your Blackberry through your computer or through WiFi or your data plan.

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Online retail giant Amazon quietly dropped the price of its heavily promoted Kindle 2 e-reader today, lowering the price to from $359 to $299—a $60 cut.

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The move is the first price drop on any Kindle since the original was reduced to $359 and puts a larger gap between this and the larger Kindle DX, which still sits at its original $489 price.

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In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google.

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Several companies are developing display technologies that may take the pigments used in traditional printing and embed them in a low-power electronic display.

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According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace University in New York City.

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Amazon is holding a press event on Wednesday, and the rumor mill has reached a consensus: it's set to release a large-format reader, more suitable to book and magazine content.

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At $359 for the Kindle, that's a luxury device anyway you look at it. Like most consumer electronic devices, getting below $200 is key to capturing a more mainstream audience.

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Remember my review of Amazon's first Kindle? I thought it sucked. Almost all of my ire was aimed at its design. I couldn't hold it or pass it to other people without it flipping pages and the UI looked like something Microsoft designed back in the late 1980s.

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Amazon's second-generation Kindle reader has already surfaced in a new leak to BGR this evening and promises to solve many of the first-run issues with the e-book device, which was nicknamed the "iPod of reading" in its first generation.

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About a year ago we brought you a prototype device that used a low-energy, high-resolution, rollable e-ink display.

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Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, "The Tale of Genji," a mil …

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Online retailer Amazon has unveiled an own-brand wireless electronic book reader called Kindle. The paperback-sized device is on sale immediately in the US for $399 (£195). It can store up to 200 books in its onboard memory.

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You might check news headlines on your cell phone, via Google News or Yahoo Go. Maybe you've even gone as far as used a mobile RSS reader.

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eReaders Should Be Our Children's Future

When I saw the Sony eReader came out recently, I was really excited about it. I used to try to read books on one of my Palm Tungsten's before, but it was not the best experience.

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Nintendo DS Web browser in Europe, Next Step Book Reader ??

It was recently reported that Europe gets Nintendo DS Web browser | TG Daily. I must say this sounds really cool. I went out and bought a DS Lite before a recent trip to England. I figured it would be a cool gadget to fiddle with on the plane to London.

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Where are the ebooks?

Computer processing speed has been increasing exponentially for over thirty years. Today's 3D graphics engines and cards can render near real-time, photo-realistic quality at film speeds.

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