Ellora's Cave, a well know erotica romance book publisher, is set to launch a new eReader in September:
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TeleRead:
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Last week, The Digital Reader noted that erotic fiction publisher Ellora’s Cave plans to release a custom ereader device at its annual RomantiCon Convention in September. Although it’s rare to see a publisher move directly into the device space, it could bring obvious benefits, like lower costs and direct access to shoppers. It’s also the sort of thing one might expect to see first from a romance or erotica publisher, since those genres tend to have customers who are comfortable buying and reading ebooks. (Only some of Ellora’s Cave’s titles are sold in print.)
There’s not much information about the device on the RomantiCon page, other than that it comes preloaded with 60 short stories and will be sold on the convention floor starting September 30th. Based on the rendering provided, it looks like the device is a sibling to a couple of models from Russian companies Digma and Prology, but tellingly the EC model ships with a Chinese dictionary.
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Also:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...-in-september/
http://ecromanticon.com/e-cave-reader
The Specs:
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Connects to your PC via USB; drag-and-drop ebook files onto the device.
It will accept protected ebooks that have been unlocked by Adobe Digital Editions. (EC doesn’t use DRM on its own books.)
No notes or highlights.
The built-in dictionary is in Chinese. Edwards adds, “Since we do have very frank colloquial language in our books, I can’t imagine what some of those translations might be.”
Notes, highlights and dictionary may be updated in the future, depending on customer response.
Here are some specs provided by Edwards’ team, which match closely to the specs listed on the Digma product page:
7-inch high clear TFT digital screen 720p (Resolution: 800 x 480 pixels)
CPU: Rockchip2729
OS: Unix-based
4GB Storage Capacity, Supports Micro SD cards up to 32GB
Ebook formats: TXT, PDF, EPUB, CHM, HTML, PDB, UMD
Photo formats: JPG, BMP, PNG
Audio formats: MP3,WMA,FLAC,WAV,APE
Video formats: AVI, RM, RMVB, WMV, MP4, PMP, MPEG, FLV,VOB, 3GP etc.
Battery: Li-ION 1800mAh
Playing time(with earphone): 6 hours movie, 10 hours music
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So, what do you think? Think it will be a viable option or is it dead in the water?