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Amazon will lose $5 on each new $79 Kindle e-reader unit that they sale, according to a report first published by business and finance website MainStreet on Wednesday. MainStreet's Seth Fiegerman, citing a report provided to the website by market research firm HIS iSuppli, said that the forthcoming e-reader -- the cheapest ever offered by the online retail giant -- will cost $84.25 to manufacture. Furthermore, the Associated Press (AP) reports that iSuppli determined that the total cost...
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NAPERVILLE, Ill., Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- OfficeMax® Incorporated (NYSE: OMX) a leader in office supplies, technology and services, today announced that Amazon's bestselling wireless reading device is now available at OfficeMax stores nationwide starting Sunday, August 7. "OfficeMax is thrilled to be working with Amazon to offer Kindle and its related accessories to our customers," said Ryan Vero, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for OfficeMax. "Kindle is a...
TAOYUAN and HSINCHU, Taiwan, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (TAIEX: 2475; "CPT") and E Ink Holdings Inc. (TAIEX: 8069; "E Ink") jointly announced today that each of their board of directors had passed a resolution, enabling E Ink to make an investment into CPT with a view to strengthen their collaboration in technology and in production capacity. Through this investment and cooperation, both companies expect to further expand electronic paper and FFS (Fringe...
Telecommunications company AT&T announced Monday that it will begin selling Amazon's Kindle 3G electronic reader at its retail stores on March 6 for $189. Potential customers will get a chance to try out the Kindle e-reader at one of AT&T's 2,200 stores before buying the device. The Kindle currently sells at Target, Best Buy and Staples stores, and on Amazon.com's online retail store. AT&T will benefit from offering the Kindle 3G -- and its $139 Wi-Fi-only version -- because...
TOKYO and BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The New York Times recently reported on Hanvon, the world's first color e-book. The following in an excerpt from the article that appeared in the New York Times on Nov. 8, 2010, with the headline "Color Comes to E Ink Screens" E-book readers are lightweight and use little power, but most have a distinct disadvantage to colorful tablet computers: their black-and-white displays. But on Tuesday at the FPD International 2010 trade show in...
BEIJING and TOKYO, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Hanvon Technology Co., Ltd. (Hanvon) was established in 1998 and is a high-tech enterprise that is dedicated to the development and production of intelligent products, technologies and services in the field of man-computer interaction. In the global handwriting recognition market, Hanvon always is a leader. In 2008, with its strong technological strength, Hanvon entered the e-book market. With a full range of technological integration...
Electronic readers (e-readers), those increasingly popular devices that replace ink on paper, may have color displays in the future thanks to new advances in display technology. That's among the topics highlighted in a three-part cover story on electronic materials in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine.C&EN Senior Editor Alex Tullo notes that sales of e-readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader, are on the rise. Manufacturers...
Amazon Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc. cut prices on their electronic book readers on Monday, responding to growing competitive pressure from Apple Inc.'s iPad.Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189 from $259, while Barnes & Noble said it would reduce the price of its Nook e-reader with 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity from $259 to $199. By comparison, the least expensive iPad costs $499. However, a direct comparison of the devices is problematic, since the iPad is a...
Amazon's Kindle e-reader may come in a color version someday, but probably not too soon, the company's founder and chief executive officer said on Tuesday at a shareholder's meeting. Jeff Bezos said at the annual meeting in Seattle that adding color to the Kindle's "electronic ink" display is a difficult technical challenge. He said that he has seen things "in the laboratory" that are definitely not ready for production. A color Kindle is still a long way out, he said. Tablet computers such...
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The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
The Kobo Touch is an eReader device produced by Kobo Inc., from China, revealed on May 23, 2011, and released in the U.S. on June 10, 2011. It is the third generation eReader from Kobo, and contained improvements from the previous versions. The Kobo Touch included 15 free previews of select books instead of 100 public domain books that were included on the previous versions. Other improvements were an E Ink pearl screen, faster CPU, and it was smaller and lighter. The display is a six-inch...
