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Forrester researchers are estimating that close to a million new ebook readers will be purchased for the holidays.  I am planning on buying one  depending on what comes out from Barnes and Noble.  How about you?

While not book related, it was an article that was too cool not to share.  A couple of MIT students assembled a camera equipped with GPS that was sent into space, to an altitude of about 18 miles, where the camera took photos of space and the curvature of the earth and the appearance of [...]

Newsweek has an article about the demise of the print newspaper and its hopeful Phoenix-like rise from the ashes in a digital reincarnation.  Several companies "will soon launch e-readers with screens the size of an 8.5-by-11-inch piece of paper�and unlike existing e-readers, which have glass screens, these next-generation machines will use flexible, plastic screens that [...]

Amazon is banking on the idea that dedicated eBook readers are what will drive paper book readers to the digital format. A recent article in September’s Searcher magazine argues that it is not. Nancy K. Herther, an anthropology and sociology librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, took a look at the history [...]

When I was at RWA, I had the opportunity to see the Kindle and the new Sony Reader with booklight and the Asus EEE PC. These are all viable ebook readers that you can purchase today, along with my personal favorite, the iTouch/iPhone.
Neither the Kindle nor the Reader is a perfect device and frankly, I [...]

This is really, really good news for ebook readers. The Sony Reader will now accept and read encrypted PDFs and the new ePub format. I believe that you should be able to access prior purchased Adobe PDFs and future purchases of Adobe PDF on the Sony Reader. Opening up the reader to accept [...]

Called a dream machine by Polymer’s CEO, Karl McGoldrick, the Readius is getting ready for the public. Taking advantage of flexible eink technology, the Readius will be a cell phone/ereading device that contains a 5″ display that folds up when not in use.
The device is due out Summer 2008 with a high [...]