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  The e-book reader market is about to get hotter as Creative has announced their entry by showing a working prototype at an AGM held in Singapore. Unlike most of the e-book readers in the market, Creative’s attempt will be very different as its e-book reader will do more than books. Tentatively named as MediaBook, [...]

  Bridgestone predominantly makes tyres but they have a penchant to develop technologies related to e-paper. They have shown couple of innovative e-paper technologies in the past and now they’ve unveiled an e-book reader that is unlike Kindle and the likes. This prototype features a flexible e-paper, effectively allowing the reader to bend to some [...]

  It seems the e-book reader market is following the same trend as the netbook market. Every company wants a piece of the market and though each product is more or less the same, they’ll try to offer some distinguishing factor over the other one. We’ve already seen a number of companies selling their e-book [...]

  Keeping its weird name debate aside, bookseller Barnes & Noble announced its Nook e-book reader yesterday. Nook has been priced as same as Kindle ($259) but scores on a lot of fronts than Amazon’s offering. The most visible change is the integration of two screens – e-ink display for reading and a color touchscreen [...]

  Barnes & Noble will be making their e-book reader official today but WSJ who got an early sneak peek shares some details. The B&N reader that was spied last week will be called as Nook and will go head to head with Kindle in terms of pricing, which means around $259. The e-book reader [...]

  The e-book reader market has become so big that apparently every company wants to make some money out of it. Barnes & Noble will also be delving into it and is expected to go official next week. Gizmodo has got some pictures of the upcoming B&N reader and it looks like other e-book readers [...]

  Sony has announced a new high-end e-book reader solution in addition to the recently unveiled PRS-300 Pocket Edition and PRS-600 Touch Edition e-book readers. The Reader Daily Edition features a 7-inch wide touchscreen display that supports content viewing in either portrait and landscape orientation. User can download new content via USB or can download [...]

  Sony has unveiled two new e-book readers to take on Kindle in the US market. Off the two, the PRS-300 Pocket Edition aims for the budget friendly crowd that gives the freedom to store hundreds of books at an affordable $199 price tag. It sports a 5-inch screen and easily fits in a jacket [...]

  Pardon our limited capacity to understand Korean but it looks like Samsung is out with an e-book reader of its own in their home market. The SNE-50K reader has been created in association with Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore. The 200g and 9mm slim device features a 5-inch display, ability to take notes with [...]

  With Kindle rocking in US, FLEPia (about to rock) in Japan, Samsung thinks the ebook reader business is the next goldmine waiting to be dug. Dubbed as Papyrus, the device will have a touchscreen display with a size of around 6-8 inches. Other details to surface is the 512MB in-built memory, stylus and is [...]