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Spring has finally released its new E-book Reader Alex eReader. But it comes after iPad’s arrival on April 3 that it must be overshadowed more or less. Despite that, we should not neglect that Alex eReader is also a distinctive device. Alex eReader features two functional screen that is different from the traditonal E-book Reader. The 6-inch screen on top, designed with E-ink technology, is used for reading, while the smaller one is a 3.5-inch touch-screen display that functions to stream video and surf the Web with the built-in Wi-Fi.

Now you know the same as iPad, Alex eReader also has Wi-Fi. But iPad is equipped with single task system that you can’t do any other thing when reading book. And Alex eReader allows you to look up the problems you come across in the reading with the operation on the LCD display, of course on which many other things could be done because it is independant from the E-ink display.

Spring says it will soon begin offering multi-language versions of Alex for countries speaking Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Hebrew. It says Alex is the first E-book Reader to offer international versions of the product through its local country partners connecting to local bookstores.

However, Alex eReader is priced at $399. I’d rather spend $100 more on iPad that has more apps with the support of Apple. To those Apple fans, they will have no doubt to buy iPad, no matter how good Alex eReader is. That also shows our disadvantage that once we love one, we always don’t care his/her/its disadvantages. Anyway, we will…

Acording to the web search, while the other two Sony E-book Reader, Sony PRS-700 and Sony PRS-505, are respectively priced at $299 and $279, Sony PRS-600 with $267 could be the cheapest E-book Reader of Sony’s new releases in 2010 until now.

As for configuration, PRS-600 takes no less than the others, such as battery life, it allows up to 8000 page turns, while PRS-700 and PRS-505 is 500 less than it. And PRS-600 features a 512M internal memory, but PRS-505 only has that of 256M. Of course, you’ll get what you pay for. The most different is on the document formats. PRS-600 supports BBeB, PDF, Word and EPUB, while the other two support more, including LRF, LRX, and RTF. There is no other big difference among these three except the appearance, actually so is the price.

iPad has been widely concerned since its official release on April 3th, while another E-book Reader manufacturer Plastic Logic has decided to delay the release of its hotly anticipated Que E-book Reader until this summer. Que E-book Reader with 4GB of storage and no 3G connectivity is priced at $649, which is $20 higher than iPad with 16GB of storage, 3G connectvity as well as Wi-Fi. Now iPad is considered the most expensive E-book Reader in the market, how about Que E-book Reader in the future? If the Que E-book Reader is worth such price?

Que E-book Reader’s all-plastic design is unique because of company’s work on plastic transistors which rely on plastic instead of typical silicon chips. That means the Que E-book Reader will be much more lightweight and durable than other eBook competitors. One impressive difference is that it can withstand bending! The screen is 8.5 by 11 inches, and the device itself is less than a third of an ich thick.

Based on 10-year development cycle of Plastic Logic’s unique work on plastic, Que E-book Reader is expected to have kind of much great overall product experience, which is also a big reason that Plastic Logic announced such a big delay. Plastic Logic’s CEO Richard Archuleta said the delay was necessary.

There is a controversial issue that is much related to our cultural life. A reader asked if it was permissible to illegally download a copy of ‘Under the Dome’ by Stephen King once they had purchaded the hardcover edition of the book. We all would like to get free books as much as possible while respecting its intellectual property. That doubt is to say we have paid for it but if we can enjoy it on another platform. Can we?

Here is ethicist Randy Cohen’s controversial response to this controversial issue: “Your subsequent downloading is akin to buying a CD, then copying it to your iPod. Buying a book or a piece of music should be regarded as a license to enjoy it on any platform. Sadly, the anachronistic conventions of bookselling and copyright law lag the technology. Thus you’ve violate the publishing company’s legal right to control the distribution of its intellectual property, but you’ve done no harm or so little as to meet my threshold of acceptability.”

Something is called ‘digital right’ that is seperated from printed book. If you want to read book online, you should pay the copyright owner who has cost much to get the digital right. The benefit you contribute to the bookseller of printed book will not flow to the digital right owner. If one day there is no difference between two, you may get the ebooks free after you buy the corresponding hardcover edition of the books.

Apple’ iPad was offically released on April 3rd. More than 15 iPad fans had waited at Apple flagship store located in the fifth Street in New York City since 4pm o’clock on April 2nd. Some analysts have predicted that until this weekend iPad will be sold up to 100,000 and it may get to 2,000,000 when September ends. You see, how popular iPad is going to be! So I doubt if iPad will replace E-book Reader in the future.

Apple’s iPad is expected to challenge Amazon’s Kindle as the dominant E-book Reader on the market, while it does a lot more than just read ebooks, including browsing the web, playing music and video, and games and apps. We can get that iPad funtions between smartphone and notebook. And compared with E-book Reader, iPad lacks kind of e-ink display. So we need to ask ourselves what we want. A multifunctional device? Or just a E-book Reader? We may be lured by iPad’s powful applications. But we should not neglect the price tag that comes to match.

Senior Analyst Jason from Motley Fool said it hurt eyes very much if reading books on the computer screen. That’s not what consumers hope, and so iPad could not be the Terminator to Kindle. I think to those Apple fans, iPad is an overwhelming product that devices like E-book Readers must give way to.

A unique feature that Entourage Edge has is linking E-ink dispay and LCD screen. Both of them work well but with more complicated operations than a Netbook with the same price and dimensions. However, if you don’t care its weight as much as five Amazon Kindles and complication to operate, Entourage Edge is a feature-packed device that offers you experiences both as a Netbook and a E-book Reader that you usually see in the market.

Now look at the two side of the Entourage Edge. On the left, it is a touch-screen E-ink display that allows you to scribble notes, highlight text, and copy and paste selections. On the right, you have a Google Android-based tablet computer with Wi-Fi e-mail, Web Browser, Microsoft docs support, Webcam, dual USB ports, Multimedia Playback, and support for third-party apps.

Each of the two screens are outfitted with four buttons that control features specific to each panel. They can supply you with convenience to access to some user interfaces, but at first, you may be confused over the difference amongs those buttons. Nevertheless, it is sure that eventually that you’ll get familar with them.

The Kindle DX’s wireless connection not only works in the U.S. but overseas. Kindle DX runs on AT&T’s network and can access content on celluar networks inside and outside of the U.S.

Kindle DX’s 9.7-inch e-ink display (1,200-by-824-pixel resolution) technically offers 2.5 times more screen real estate than the Kindle’s 6-inch display. That extra screen comes at a price, both figuratively and literally, as the DX weighs almost twice as much (18.9 ounces) as the Kindle and costs $230 more, at $489.

Aside from the price, the biggest strike against the DX is a competing product from Apple. In early 2010, Apple announced that it would release the iPad, which offers a full-color capacitive touch screen that’s the same size as the Kindle’s monochrome e-ink screen along with a far richer feature set, including much better support for PDF and image files

Although it has all the positive attributes typically associated with a Kindle device, the arrival of Apple’s iPad seriously affects the Kindle DX’s viability unless Amazon lowers its price by at least $100.

With built-in 3G wirelss service, you can easily get access to e-books from Sony’s Reader Store. And EPUB file compatibility lets you access thousands of free classic Google Books and loaner files from many local libraries. Built-in dictionary, charger and protective case are also included. This is Sony Reader Daily Edition PRS 900BC, Sony’s first e-reader to include 3G wireless service.

The move to wireless is a big deal for Sony, because it allows the company to compete directly, with the Kindle and other e-readers like the Barnes & Noble Nook, which bundle in “free” cellular connectivity. Mix in a touch-screen interface and the Daily Edition’s markup and note-taking capabilities and you should have one of the more appealing e-reader options out there, particularly when you factor in the aforementioned elegant design. However, a few shortcomings–including a high $399 price tag–keep this e-reader from truly outclassing the competition.

Sony PRS 900BC has a 7.1-inch touch screen instead of the more standard 6 inches. That makes it almost exactly the same length as the Amazon Kindle in terms of pure physical dimensions. But there is a physical keyboard that takes some space, so that Sony PRS 900BC could display sevral more lines of text on its longer screen.

Teclast will release its E-book reader Teclast K3 which only cost $220. Teclast K3 utilizes E-ink screen technology to deliver an amazing, paper-like display that is more like ink on paper and fully readable in direct sunlight. Teclast K3 also features a large capacity of 4GB that can store up to 10 thousands e-books. It seems much cheaper than those similar products.

Teclast K3 is only 8.9mm thick, easy for you to carry and put it into your pocket. After one single battery charge, Teclast K3 can last up to 15 days without any operation, or 20 hours when continuously playing. 1000 continous pages turns are also available for your quantity reading.

Teclast K3 supports many widely used formats, including TXT, PDF, PDB, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTM, and SKT, as well as JPG and BMP two image formats. As for audio formats, there are MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, ACC and ogg.So there is no problem no matter you are reading books, caricature, or any other documents.

Until January 31st, Amazon sold its digital book titles for $9.99, which was a driving force behind the Kindle’s faithful consumer all the time. However many book publishers did not care for this approach. Publishers believed that Amazon was undervaluing the eBooks. And at last, Amazon conceded to price the eBook at up to $14.99 and low to $12.99. This news made us know that market developments have brought about unavoidable challengs that threaten Amazon’s once untouchable eBook market share.

Apple announced its iPad may be one important factor that force Amazon into this decision. The iPad is a portable media tablet that will serve as eBook reader amongest many other features. As a result, the iPad is considered a direct competitor to the Amazon Kindle and has received a lot of media coverage building up to its recent debut. Apple also disclosed that it will allow publishers to set their own eBook prices in the Apple store. And if Amazon doesn’t do the same as Apple, publisher will not release their new book titles to Amazon.

Amazon once was the dominant force in the eBook industry, with which Amazon can drive down price. But now things have changed since Apple announced its iPad and iBookstore. I had thought more an more manufactures enter into rivalry over eBook, which can bring down the price of eBook reader, but now the price of eBook has been raised unexpectedly.