DA Direct and Central Book Services announce an ebook reader designed for Australians and New Zealanders.
The ECO Reader is the ANZ version of the HanLin V3, supporting Adobe Digital Editions (ePub and PDF) and Mobipocket non-DRM, along with all the other formats usually supported by V3s.
Features:
6 inch electronic paper display (Vizplex)
4 greyscale
MP3 Music Player
512 MB storage memory (Expandable via SD card to 4GB)
ECO Readers come pre-loaded with 21 nicely formatted ebooks, including several Australian titles.
The pre-loaded ebooks include the following:
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens (Miles Franklin Award Winner)
Designing Better Futures by Michael J C McAllum
ECO Readers are priced at A$449.00 (including Australian GST) or A$408.18 (New Zealand).
Included in the box: ECO Reader, leather cover, USB cable, earphones and AU/NZ wall charger.
The ECO Reader helpdesk is in Melbourne, Australia.
For more information or to place an order, please go to our website:
Central Book Services
Based in Melbourne, DA Direct is the largest full-service library supplier in Australia. Central Book Services is DA Direct's trade section. DA Direct and CBS are Australian owned and have branches in Singapore and New York.
DA Direct will be launching an Australian ebookstore, based on OverDrive, on 20th August 2009.
Edit: Store opening has been delayed to early September.
I’m affiliated with DA Direct/CBS.