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Old 06-25-2007, 10:24 AM   #16
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Forgive me if this information has already been given and I just missed it, but when is the Cybook going on sale?

I want one!
Take a look at the final sentence of Michael's initial post in this thread .
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Old 06-25-2007, 10:27 AM   #17
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Take a look at the final sentence of Michael's initial post in this thread .
Duh!

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Old 06-25-2007, 11:03 AM   #18
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Nate,

While our immediate goal at NAEB is to do a 'club' purchase of Bookeen readers, we will be working towards being a solid e-retail outlet for Bookeen devices. You have to understand that we're building NAEB from the resources of five, that's right *FIVE*, average people who have average lives and average incomes. We've generated buzz to the point where we have over five hundred people interested in buying one of the Bookeen readers and we hope to place a first order for one thousand units.

Clearly, as we don't have the financial resources of Sony, Hanlin, or iRex/Phillips, we must take it slow. But we will get there. And I believe that the Bookeen Cybook is going to be a quality device, of value to our customers.

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Yeah, you and 199 of your friends. Bookeen doesn't sell devices retail, they sell them wholesale. Otherwise NAEB would just send people there instead of being a middle-man.

Bookeen may start selling this device retail. If they do, I'll buy direct.
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Old 06-25-2007, 11:05 AM   #19
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Hello from Spain.This is my first post here and I hope you understand to me because my English is poor.
I have a question for you Michael.Cybook will read RAR files for comics?.I tell you this because that is the "STANDARD" on PC with programs to read those how CDISPLAY.

Thanks and sorry by my bad english
I highly doubt the Cybook will read from ZIP or RAR files. You'd have to decompress to the native JPG and upload those to the reader in order to display them. And as for ZIP format CBR, that's most likely a no as well.
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Old 06-25-2007, 12:30 PM   #20
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[Bookeen] New information

Hello everyone,

The relationship between Bookeen and BAEN/NAEB corresponds exactly to Derek's description. One important point, the people from NAEB will be among the firsts to test and evaluate the device.

Concerning compressed files, the Cybook device will support compressed formats. The supported formats will be released with software specifications soon.

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?

So the only way to get a Cybook will be to go through NAEB and, what, get on a list or something indicating you want to be part of a group purchase?

Is this correct?

P.S. Total newbie here...I don't even know what NAEB is.....
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Old 06-25-2007, 02:41 PM   #22
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Nah, it just sounds like they might be first.

NAEB stands for "Not Another E-Book" -- you can find their site here.
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I wonder if the software program will be ubook (which I love) because that used to be included in the Cybook reader.
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Old 06-26-2007, 12:38 PM   #24
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I wonder if the software program will be ubook (which I love) because that used to be included in the Cybook reader.
Highly unlikely. The new CyBook runs the Linux operating system; uBook is a Windows application.

My all-time-fave book reading app too, by the way!
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Old 06-26-2007, 02:04 PM   #25
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Highly unlikely. The new CyBook runs the Linux operating system; uBook is a Windows application.

My all-time-fave book reading app too, by the way!
Yep, most of these e-ink devices are based on Linux.
I hope that Michaël and Laurent will let developers create third party app for the reader, we could have some pretty neat applications like on the iLiad in this case.
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Old 07-02-2007, 01:58 PM   #26
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You have to understand that we're building NAEB from the resources of five, that's right *FIVE*, average people who have average lives and average incomes.
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While that's technically true, it doesn't tell the whole story. The original idea was to form a co-op to do a group purchase (well, the ORIGINAL original idea grew out of a baen-bar forum discussion on e-book readers and was for a co-op to develop an independent ebook device - but it turned out later that the cybook pretty much fulfilled all the requirements for the first generation version for less money than we could possibly hope for and it was therefore a better idea to just buy them). The five people Derek mentions formed the governing board of the co-op. The hitch with that was once the board was formed, the next step of member buy-in never materialized. NOT because no one was interested (plenty of people asked about it and offered to buy in) but apparently because of issues with money management prior to creation of the corporate entity (who receives the funds, how do we pay for the commercial bank accounts for a company that may or may not get off the ground, what happens to the money if it turns out that the cybook isn't the greatest thing since sliced e-ink, etc). Plenty of people like yours truly would love to buy into the NAEB co-op to support this project.

All that aside, and to reiterate, the NAEB reader really is a cybook - NAEB is acting as a retail outlet through a buying-group rather than as a competitor since individual retail sales directly from bookeen aren't in the works yet.
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Aaah! An other Hyperion fan. Welcome by! I always liked the Yggdrasil name. It's the type of word that dances through your head for days.
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Aaah! An other Hyperion fan. Welcome by! I always liked the Yggdrasil name. It's the type of word that dances through your head for days.
Yggdrasil is the tree of life in Norse mythology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Not necessarily linked to Dan Simmons' work.
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Well, except that Simmons drew on that ... root, of course.
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Thanks for the info Hadrien. I guess yggdrasil himself will share with us where he chose that name. It stll has a certain musicality to it.
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