In the past few weeks, it seems like the big box stores have begun to notice that e-books are hot.
In the meantime, Barnes and Nobles purchased Fictionwise, a small e-book retailer that boasts a ton of different formats including the Amazon elusive epub. Why there isn’t one master format, I will never know.
Amazon.com bought Lexcycle, the makers of Stanza, which I previously wrote about. Now I love Stanza, however I am not yet sure what this will mean for the currently free product.
In addition to this, Amazon.com pre-released the Kindle DX today. At a whopping $489, here is what you are getting in the 10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″ device.
- a9.7″ diagonal e-ink display
- storage space for up to3,500 books
- native PDF support (FINALLY)
- a rotating display
- 3G wireless (not sure yet if this is built in or by contract)
- text to speech
- whispersync
I for one am excited to see a “textbook” sized e-reader hit the market. I am wondering how long it will be until they are under contract with the textbook companies and start handing these bad boys out to students when they are accepted into colleges.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm
All of this and I still can’t get a ebook copy of I, Lucifer.
Eitherway I have to say I am loving the way eink products are moving forward, and gaining more ground(http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Even-more-pictures-of-the-Alias2-article-a_4546.html).
Marvel and DC need to pool together and get amazon to develop a full color option out there with a subscription service for their new books. I’d spring for a reasonable monthly fee to dl 10 or so titles a month and to have them freshly delivered to me every Wednesday morning.