wired.com - 10/28/2009
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Barnes & Noble will sell the Que proReader at its stores and website starting next year, for an as-yet unknown price. (Photo courtesy of Plastic Logic)
Barnes & Noble only announced its nook e-book reader last week, and already the company has signed a deal with a potential ...
paidcontent.org - 10/27/2009
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Its 700-plus U.S. stores should give Barnes &
Noble an edge in the contest for e-reader dollars...
but many won’t be selling the actual Nook on site. Instead, I was told as a customer, the booksellers will order a device for in-store customers ...
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Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores
tuaw.com - 10/24/2009
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Fast Company is reporting that there is a
Kindle reader application coming for the Mac. At the...
Windows 7 launch this week, Microsoft said there is a Windows version of the e-reader on the way, prompting a promise from Amazon that a Mac version was ...
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Kindle software coming to Mac OS X
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Que e-reader from Plastic Logic to go on sale at B&N—and allow full-text browsing of e-books when you visit local stores
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
The Que e-reader from Plastic Logic—not just Barnes and Noble’s own Nook—will go on sale at B&N for those who want a large shatter-proof E Ink-based screen. See Plastic Logic news release, Wired News, CNet and Google roundup. Best guess is that the price could be at least $400, or far more than the $259 Nook.
As reported by Wired: “The Que proReader will handle eBooks in the PDF, ePub, eReader, and eReader DRM formats; magazines and newspapers in the GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TXT formats; and ...
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