Tech-minded bibliophiles in the UK have been forced to sit around and, er, read real books made of paper, while our American cousins have been lording it up literary-style with Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader for years. However, that could all be set to change – if rumours are true the techy tome-displayer could be heading for these shores as early as next week!
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We’ve already feasted on a banquet of allegedly leaked info about Apple’s mac tablet today but the whispers just keep on coming. Anonymous sources within the publishing world have told Gizmodo that Apple has been in negotiation with major publishers to get their content on iTunes and the forthcoming Apple mac tablet.
We’re still waiting on a UK version of the Amazon Kindle, but Sony clearly isn’t messing about with its own eBook devices: every day we seemingly get a new nugget of info about the soon-to-be-launched PRS-300 and PRS-600 Sony Readers – yesterday we got wind of the price tags, and today we’ve got the specifications.
Last week we heard that Sony had a brand new pair of eBook readers in the works. Exciting stuff, we think you’ll agree – but it seems the good news doesn’t stop there: according to reports, the new Sony Readers could start at as little as $200 (£120). Please make it so!
Get this eBook fans. There won’t be just one new Sony Reader. Nope, there’ll be two, The Sony PRS–300 and PRS–600 have both just wormed their way onto the web, along with an official pic and a string of specs to excite futuristic bookworms. Read on and find out when you’ll be getting your new Sony Reader dose.
We’ve unboxed the Elonex eBook already, but now we’ve had a bit of a read of it we thought you might like to too. Is it the Kindle killer – or Kindle substitute here in the UK – we’ve been crying out for and can it unseat the Cool-er in our hearts and on our bookshelves? Read on and see for yourself in our hands-on video!
A UK Kindle may be coming up fast, but the Elonex eBook has hit British Borders bookshops already, and we’ve got one to prove it. It may be lacking the iPod nano-esque colours of the Cool-er and the big name reliability of the Sony Reader, but can the screen – and the books on offer – help it stand out from the crowd? Read on and find out in our hands and eyes-on!
There’s a battle brewing for your eyeballs, and for once it’s not TV programmes or even movies that want your peepers: it’s the humble book. Of course, it has a high tech twist: a new generation of eBooks are duking it out, so what’s the difference? We’ve put three of the latest head to head to find out.