eReaders Category: News, Gadgets & Rumours

Sony announce new PSP Digital Reader – EPUB Support?

August 18, 2009

This evening a friend of mine pointed me to the Sony annoucment of the PSP and the new PSP Go over on cnet news. Why did I find this interesting enough to write about? The article also mentioned that the PSP’s will be getting their own “Digital Reader”…!!! The article says, The PSP will also [...]

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There are currently 17 Adobe EPUB eBook Readers

August 13, 2009

I was just over at Bill McCoy’s blog (Adobe) reading his latest post about the current number of dedicated eBook readers which support the Adobe DRM’d EPUB format. Of course there are a number of other reading devices, such as the iPhone that can read non-DRM EPUB eBooks, but it is still surprising how many [...]

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Bookeen releases the Cybook Opus

July 27, 2009

I just noticed on the Bookeen website that their new mini eBook reader, the Cybook Opus, is now available. I have to say this does look a very cute reader. There’s nothing spectacular regarding the specifications but with a 5″ screen (4″ x 3″- 101mm x 76mm), this is a very pocketable eReader. The best [...]

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Blackewell opens new eBook store with ePub download option

July 22, 2009

While all the U.S. publishers/eBook stores remain reluctant to embrace the ePub format, the UK, and Europe in general, is really forging forward with its adoption. The latest to release an eBook store selling ePub books (plus PDF and other popular formats), is the UK academic publisher, Blackwell. In addition to the 45,000 titles they [...]

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Borders UK release the Elonex: their very own eBook Reader

June 30, 2009

In a press release on thebookseller.com, Borders UK have announced the release of their own ePub eBook reader, in an effort to compete with the Waterstones/Sony partnership. According to the article this reader has been specially developed for Borders, although it gives no details on exactly what the specifications are. All I know is that [...]

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Sony Readers are coming to every town!

September 1, 2008

If you’re lucky enough to live in the U.S. then you have plenty of options when it comes to a dedicated eBook reader. For those of us from Europe however, the pickings are much slimmer. That is until now! In case you’ve been living under a log – come this Thursday we in the UK [...]

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An Opera ePub book reading widget is being developed

August 5, 2008

Not so long ago Liza Daly released Bookworm to the public, an ePub web application for reading .epub formatted eBooks. Another alternative is now being developed by Opera Software for their popular web browser in the form of a widget. Jon Noring has been advising Haakon Lie over at Opera to develop the browser plug-in, [...]

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Sony Reader now reads ePub books!

July 24, 2008

Very early this morning, 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time to be precise, TeleRead.org broke the news that Sony are officially releasing a firmware update allowing the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-505 to read the IDPF ePub formatted books – available from their website today. The ePub standard has seen great interest of late from both [...]

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Use the web-based Bookworm reader to read your ePub books

July 18, 2008

If you are looking for a web-based ePub book reader then look no further than Bookworm. Developed by Liza Daly (see also tei2epub Converter), the Bookworm ePub reader will allow you to read ePub books directly from your web browser, there is also a “mobile web-optimized” version for those of you with an iPhone. The [...]

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Want to read EPUB ebooks on your iPhone?

July 14, 2008

Ready … Set … Read! This is the headline on the Lexcycle website for their new iPhone eBook reader called Stanza. They’re touting this as the ‘premier electronic book reader for the iPhone and the iPod Touch‘ which more importantly (at least for me) has the ability to read ebooks in the EPUB format. Stanza [...]

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