The Runwei A50 was designed to read ebooks, but it is different from other e-book readers like the Kindle since it does not rely on a special e-paper display, using a LED instead. that means it is not meant for reading for hours on end, but ought to be sufficient for you to browse through the day’s sports news without suffering from eye strain. Features include an ARM9 500MHz processor, a 5″ touchscreen display at 800 x 480 resolution, 2GB of internal memory and Windows CE OS. Among the supported file formats are TXT, HTML, PDF, WORD, XLS, PPT, ZIP, CHM and UMD. The Runwei A50 is a portable media player as well since it handles video, audio and images with aplomb. You won’t find Wi-Fi connectivity on that though, which makes us wonder where are you going to get those e-books from without the convenience of Over-The-Air downloads.

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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technologies (AIST) recently showed off a flexible organic TFT array sheet as well as a flexible LCD panel that comprises of a monochrome polymer network (PN) LCD panel as well as an A4-size organic TFT array sheet. The latter boasts 1,600 x 1,200 resolution, and is touted to be the largest TFT sheet made by using printing technology in the world. While it isn’t suitable for action movies, it ought to be sufficient for e-book readers. No concept on when manufacturers will adopt that in their products though.

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Guess the moment honored tradition of reading bedtime stories to your little ones before they nod off could vanish one day due to the advent of e-books. Take a look at the number of e-book readers in the market already, and with the impending launch of the Apple iPad, it seems as though the ordinary book doesn’t hold any more appeal, particularly to the younger generation. Let Penguin inculcate the love for reading with their Qbook digital picture book. These digital tomes were specially designed to be interactive. where one relies on the Swipe-to-Read operate on the story, letting little ones run their fingers across the words and letters in order to take in the story read aloud while enjoying a change in color as well as pop-up graphics. Not only that, the Touch-to-Hear operate plus enables kids to take in the individual word spoken in order to further improve their vocabulary. Apart from the Apple device family, Qbooks can be found on Windows 7, Symbian and Android platforms that coming May.

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LG is at the forefront of display technology yet again, with news that they have come up with a 19″ wide flexible e-paper which is roughly the size of an A3-sized newspaper. that is around 8 times larger than 6″ e-book readers, where that flexible display was developed specially for an e-newspaper while giving the reader an experience of actually reading a real newspaper. Measuring a mere 0.3mm thin, it tips the scales at 130 grams. Since TFT has been arranged on metal foil instead of glass substrate, that makes it possible for it to recover its original shape after being bent. Don’t expect it to hit the market anytime soon in other forms of devices since there is no word of it entering production anytime soon.

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Almost everybody looks to be welcome the wave of E-book readers, and there have been a great many of those little devices at CES 2010. Book retailers on the other hand, are rather unhappy about the whole issue, and it seems that book retailers in France are particularly unhappy about it all, as the 5 major French bookstore chains are ganging up and trying to set up a “national e-book platform”, to try and stem the momentum of Amazon and Google. To achieve that, they’ve asked the government and publishers to help in that effort. To be honest, it’s hard to imagine publishers helping out the retailers, after all, retail chains have probably been bullying the publishers for quite some day now. Do you think that digital print will replace traditional paper books by date, or will they be able to coexist in the same world?

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[CES 2010] They say that everyone has a good book in them, but how many of us have actually taken the duration to sit down and pen our thoughts? whether you have always wanted to write a book but don’t know how to get around it, how about engaging FastPencil’s service? The company leverages on the current trend of e-book readers and social media, offering an unified online service which streamlines the book publishing process. You can write when you want to on your iPhone, as towering as inspiration strikes. Hopefully their servers have decent backup capability though, as it would be a waste to see all your hard work go up in a puff of virtual smoke should anything untoward happen. Once you have completed your book (up till here FastPencil charges you nothing), you can opt to hire their illustrators and designers to package your book for the digital format (or physical media), or choose your own, choosing a variety of marketing channels (Amazon, the traditional bookstore, digital downloads, etc) to push your tome. You don’t even need to think about what e-book format to support with so many e-book readers in the market, as they will do it all for you. Heck, you can even purchase your own ISBN number whether you want to, and a undoubtful proceeds of each sale you build goes to FastPencil’s pockets. that makes self-publishing a whole lot easier, eh? In just 5 months, FastPencil has 80 published authors with more than 7,000 books in the pipeline now. Apart from that, you can additionally take your existing books by sending in a softcopy of your work and they’ll do the rest. Trippin’!

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E-book readers are surely gaining momentum with Dulin Books announcing that they will be shipping their own e-book reader known as the Boox 60 in due date, where it will come equipped with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity alongside a WebKit-based browser. that browser is good ample to handle news views, blogs and other wiki sites alongside the ability to download further reading subject matter for the reader. It comes with a 6″ Vizplex display with touchscreen capability courtesy of Wacom (those guys who invent tablets), running on a 532MHz processor with 512MB of internal memory that can be further expanded courtesy of a microSDHC memory card. No color display to boast of here, but you do get 16 shades of gray. The Boox 60 is going for $349 with universal shipments commencing from the middle of next month onwards.

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With e-book readers being all the rage these days, have you asked yourself when you’re going to pick one up whether you haven’t done so already? The Owen E1 e-book reader ain’t too shabby features-wise, where it is slightly smaller than the Amazon Kindle, featuring a 5″ e-ink display and audio and image file support, with no mention on whether it will support color or not. There is no word on pricing at press day, and the Owen E1 certainly does look set to impress when unleashed.

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Folks haven’t even been able to get their hands on the Barnes & Noble Nook and it’s already supply issues. We previously mentioned that the Nook was sold out for the holidays, and now it looks like the retail launch has plus been delayed by a week to Dec 7th. The launch has been pushed back considering the company has decided to prioritize customers who pre-ordered the device. It certainly looks like e-book readers are all the rage that holidays, aren’t they?

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Netronix is currently working hand in hand with Texas Instruments in order to develop e-ook readers that are powered by the Google Android operating system, where they are looking at by a million units’ worth of shipment sometime next year. These Netronix e-book readers can additionally interoperate with other Android-powered handsets as well as embedded devices for added functionality. Apart from that, Netronix additionally wants to incorporate 3G or 3.5G modules into their e-book readers, transforming so that the digital reading devices can be transformed into personal communications devices as well. Exciting times are ahead of us, eh?

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