Stephen's Web

New eBook Reader to Challenge Amazon's Kindle

There has been widespread coverage of a newly announced eBook reader from Plastic Logic intended to challenge the Amazon Kindle. So far, the only benefits to these things I'm seeing are to the publishers: users get to pay more for their content, and to have it erased at the publishers' whims. Still, at least this new reader supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and not just Amazon's proprietary format. Naturally, content produced for one does not work on the other. Gary Woodill, Workplace Learning Today, July 24, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Books] [Previous][Next]

Comments

Re: New eBook Reader to Challenge Amazon's Kindle

Frank Lowney, July 26, 2009

Being near-sighted, I am perfectly content reading on my 2G iPod touch. Stanza (free but owned now by Amazon) is one of several good, free readers that are not tied to a single vendor. However I do understand that this is a challenge for many with normal vision and especially for the far-sighted.

The rumored itablet or iSlate from Apple could obviate this shortcoming and yield a number of good, open eBook readers that even the farsighted could enjoy. The iPhoneOS has supported read-only access to PDFs, MS Office (Word, Powerpoint and Excel) and iWork (Pages, Keynote & Numbers) files from the beginning. Other file typse such as video, audio and web archives are also supported. This is just a simple call to the OS. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Comment

You are not logged in. [Login]

Title
Description

Your comments remain your property, but in posting them here you agree to license under the same terms as this site (Creative Commons). If your comment is offensive it will be deleted.

Automated Spam-checking is in effect. If you are a registered user you may submit links and other HTML. Anonymous users cannot post links and will have their content screened - certain words are prohibited and your comment will be analyzed to make sure it makes sense.