02:26 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

On behalf of the MobileRead team I would like to wish all of you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2010! Thank you everybody for being part of this amazing community, for your endless contributions, and for the valuable feedback and suggestions you have provided us throughout this year.

So, wherever you are in the world, and whatever your plans are for New Year's Eve - have a good one! - and hope to see you next year again.

12:15 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but NPR is usually a good source of thought provoking editorials. The segment is about 5 minutes long, and it's also available for download as MP3.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=122026529

09:06 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

Last week Onyx released a new firmware for the Boox 60. The improvements include:

• Migrate to ADOBE RM 9.1
• Add password support PDF
• OTA support to enable user to purchase books from online shop
• Notes support
• Shortcut support
• More text encoding support to reflowable content like plain text, mobi
• More text size support
• Clock support
• Bookmark support to web browser
• Wi-Fi deadlock issue during standby
• https support
• Add GPL declaration to about information
• Fix reboot issue
• Some small GUI bugs fixed

The second one is a biggie. So far as I know, no other device developer has implemented that part of Adobe RM. You can download the update from here:
http://www.onyx-international.com/node/69

08:05 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

Chinese e-reader site MobRead is reporting that PVI now has final approval from the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission to buy Massachusetts based E-ink Corp.

Up until it announced the purchase of Eink back in June, PVI had licensed Eink's technology and was (still is) the primary manufacturer of epaper screens for ebook readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, Hanlin V3, Cybook, etc.

07:51 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

The Chinese ebook site MobRead is reporting that there will be an e-reader trade show in Shenzhen, China from 16-18 March.

You may not know this, but there is a _huge_ ebook reader market in China. The handful of devices that have appeared in Europe and the USA are just the tip of the iceberg. There are literally dozens of models that are made only for the Chinese market. I just looked over the map of the trade show; there are nearly 500 booths laid out. You can learn more about the show here:
http://www.ouge-miexpo.cn/er/

I can't go (unless someone else pays for it).

07:21 AM by seagull in E-Book General | News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ow_29_12_2009/

This was on BBC Radio 4 yesterday (I think iPlayer is UK only, sorry!), I haven't listened to it all yet. Anybody else listened to it?

09:07 PM by wallcraft in E-Book Readers | Alternative Devices

There is a test version of the very latest FBReader for the SmartQ 5/7. See Testing wanted: FBReader 0.12.1 for SmartQ, which includes a download link and asks for feedback.

05:24 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

You may have seen the reports that Blio will be demoed at CES. It's not on any schedule, but I finally found out where and when. I have confirmation from a contact with Kurzweil Technologies that Blio will be on display in the Microsoft booth. I was also told that Steve Ballmer will mention it during his keynote address (Wednesday, 6:30pm).

The Juggernaut is awake, and it's throwing its weight behind a new and unknown format. This may not be new to you, but I've glanced through all the coverage on Blio and I don't see Microsoft mentioned anywhere. Have you?

P.S. On a related note, I also found the support site for Blio: www.blioreader.com.