07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Feast your eyes on some of the discussions from this week at MobileRead...

E-Book General - News

• Sony reveals prototype 13.3-inch e-ink slate with stylus
• Samsung has sold Liquavista to Amazon!
• E Ink Intros 13.3" Flexible Electronic Paper Display

01:03 PM by joblack in E-Book General | News

E Ink is launching a new flexible electronic paper display based on Sony's flexible Thin Film Transistor (TFT) tech.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ele...ble,22556.html

Hooray, I can't wait to buy one of these babies.

01:39 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

The Digital Reader reveals that Samsung has sold Liquavista. The buyer is unconfirmed, but looks likely to be Amazon is now confirmed as the buyer.

Could this mean that a Liquavista Kindle will appear sometime in the next year?

I'm really looking forward to seeing a production Liquavista display, and I'm hoping it won't be the disappointment that Mirasol turned out to be.

01:28 PM by din155 in E-Book General | News

Couldn’t find any thread for this. Hope it's not a vapourware. Here is the engadget link:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/13/s...paign=Engadget

The prototype device is also only 6.8mm (0.27 inch) thick and weighs 385g (13.6 ounces) -- perfect for slipping into school bags. There's 4GB of on-board storage (with a microSD slot to increase that) and WiFi, which Sony plans to use for sharing notes with those who didn't make it to class on time. With WiFi off, the rechargeable battery inside is expected to last for three weeks of solid learning. These specs are for the prototype, of course, so after the late-2013 field trials at three Japanese universities.

Knowing Sony, I am sure it would cost a leg to buy if it ever comes out.

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

It was the week that was. Here's what MobileRead's been talking about since last Sunday:

E-Book General - News

• Trekstor Pyrus Maxi: Bare-bones 8" digital ink reader.
• Tor Books UK on Dumping DRM: "no discernible increase in piracy"

E-Book General - Deals, Freebies, and Resources (No Self-Promotion)

• NOOK Simple Touch now £29 in UK, GlowLight is £69

06:41 PM by Ninjalawyer in E-Book General | News

There's a blog post here from Tor that talks about the affect (or lack thereof) of ditching DRM.

The title of the thread gives away the ending, but I'll quote a salient section of the post anyway:

We had discussions with our authors before we made the move and we considered very carefully the two key concerns for any publisher when stripping out the DRM from ebooks: copyright protection and territoriality of sales. Protecting our author’s intellectual copyright will always be of a key concern to us and we have very stringent anti-piracy controls in place. But DRM-protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we believe a great majority of readers are just as against piracy as publishers are, understanding that piracy impacts on an author’s ability to earn an income from their creative work. As it is, we’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year.

I hope more publishers ditch their DRM schemes, and I also hope sellers of other media take notice. I dream of the day I can buy a video file from any service and play it on any device without first stripping the DRM.

08:09 AM by lecoeur in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

The Bookseller: B&N slashes Nook to £29

That's about $45-yikes! I guess we can take it that their much vaunted launch in the UK has not been a rip roaring success. Hardly surprising however as outside of the 'trade' no one has ever heard of them.

NOOK Simple Touch £29
NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight £69

01:29 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

After launching the tiny 4.3" screen Pyrus mini, Trekstor have just announced its big brother, the 8" Pyrus Maxi

The mini has a 230dpi 600x800 4.3" screen.
The maxi has a 160dpi 768x1024 8" screen.

It also has 4GB of memory to the mini's 2GB and also claims twice the battery life. But other than that, they seem very similar.

The screen resolution can't compete with the Kobo Aura, and it's more expensive than the Kindle Paperwhite.

But if you want a physically bigger screen, this might be for you.

According to The Digital Reader, it's due in mid-May for around €149.