MobileRead Week in Review: 04/01 - 04/08

[Alexander Turcic]

In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup:

E-book Devices, Future E-Book Devices
Beware of the Apple iReader, fool!
Bend It like Paper with Plastic Logic's e-reader prototype

E-book Devices, iRex iLiad
Distributer Named for the iRex iLiad -- in France

E-book Devices, Sony Portable Reader
BusinessWeek gives Sony Reader a 3.5/5 in second round
Sony Reader official developer site launched - PRSLabs.com

E-books, Content
PDFRead v5 available on Sourceforge

E-books, Elsewhere on the Net
Manybooks Mobile

E-books, News
It's April *2nd*, and rumors flying that iTunes and EMI are about to dump DRM
E-books one of the biggest technology flops?
E Ink says it may launch color e-paper next year
Microsoft follows Apple's lead on non-DRM offerings
DRM, or not DRM: that is the question (poll)

Miscellaneous, Lounge
Free broadband Internet from Google
Your vast electronic library... is it safe?