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Google eBooks-Integrated E-reader Out On Sunday

Posted by Unknown on from the ereader-burnings-considerably-more-toxic dept.

minutetraders sends word of an announcement from Google. Quoting: "Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform." It appears iriver has released source for the GPL components on the device, unlike the last time around.

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  1. features I'm waiting for by bcrowell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Features I'm waiting for before I buy an e-book reader:

    1. I'm not touching anything with DRM, because any book I buy with DRM is virtually guaranteed to be unreadable in four years.

    2. A decent selection of books.

    3. Good support for books with equations in them.

    Iriver apparently fails #1. The WP article on google ebooks says it's touted as open, but actually uses DRM.

    A quick search for books by an author I like shows that only a small fraction of his books are available, so fail on #2 as well.

    All epub-based formats basically fail #3. Dunno about the formats supported by google ebooks.

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