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March 1, 2009
More electronic readers - some Kindle competition
I bet Hearst wishes they'd been able to launch this 18 months ago!
According to industry insiders, Hearst, which publishes magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Esquire and newspapers including the financially imperiled San Francisco Chronicle, has developed a wireless e-reader with a large-format screen suited to the reading and advertising requirements of newspapers and magazines. The device and underlying technology, which other publishers will be allowed to adapt, is likely to debut this year.
It's going to be bigger - more of a standard magazine format size. I wonder how well that will work - since two of the complaints about Kindle are that it is too big and that it is too small - some people want something more iPhone sized and some people want something bigger. Interesting.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 1, 2009 8:25 AM