MobileRead Week in Review: 01/09 - 01/16

[Alexander Turcic]

Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events.

E-Book General - News and Commentary

• Notes on a brief conversation with Spring Design
• A visit to the Freescale booth at CES
• RCA Lexi
• On the Liquvista "demos" at CES
• New mainstream device available in Greece!
• Europe's dysfunctional private copying levy to remain (Ars Technica)
• Updated and Corrected: E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy (EFF)
• Tess Gerritsen on ebook readers (mediabistro)
• About the glut of devices on the ebook reader market
• Delyca S600K
• Liquavista: Threat to E-Ink?
• Wattpad closes first round of funding
• Digilife 6" E-Book
• Daza ebook readers
• Sharp PC-Z1 Netwalker Review (from L'Ombre de l'Olivier)
• How Not To Negotiate for Digital Rights (Scholarly Kitchen)
• iRex DR800 to be introduced in Europe soon
• Update released for Adobe Acrobat & Reader
• Mark your calendar: O'Reilly TOC Conference 22-24 February
• Walt Mossberg reviews the Sony Daily Edition
• JISC digitised 100k pages from 19th century newspapers
• Kindle-ADA lawsuits settled
• The neatest thing I saw at CES: PVI's flexible E-ink screen
• Quirk Books to release Tolstoy's "Android Karenina"
• South Korea plans to adopt digital textbooks next year
• Interview: Matt Mason on piracy as a business model (Spark)
• Sony adds 46 comics to the Digital Comic Store
• World largest 19" flexible ePaper from LG Display
• NetLibrary adds support for Sony Readers, Nook, Cool-ER
• Video: Pocketbook 901 at CES 2010
• Amazon expands language support in Kindle Store
• Public Service Announcement: Cherrypal is a SCAM
• Mark your calendar: Book Blogger Convention on 28 May
• Indianapolis Public Schools Replace Textbooks with Digital Content (THE Journal)
• Digitization projects - updates

E-Book Devices - iRex Digital Reader

• DR1000 firmware update with ADE rescheduled to end of Q1/2010

E-Book Devices - HanLin eBook

• Leo's Hanlin V3 eBook SDK

Portable Devices - Other Devices

• Reading capable umpcs/tablets/slates coming out this year