Sony has added a second option to its ebook reader line-up with the announcement of the PRS 700, slated for late November release in the US. No word on any international releases yet.
Among the new features of the PRS 700 is a touch screen with a stylus and on-screen QWERTY keyboard, the ability to annotate [...]

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Google has now officially launched its new Android-based mobile, an ‘iPhone killer’ or, certainly, a good enough debut to put some real excitement into the mobile phone sector.
Unlike the iPhone, Google’s Android is an open software platform that will be available to any hardware of application provider who wants to create products for it. The [...]

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Here’s a quick video that shows how the iPhone works as a digital publication reader. In this case, the publication is a magazine rather than a book and it uses the Texterity system which was originally ported to the iPhone in July 2007.
Texterity and Zinio (also due for release on the iPhone) are a couple [...]

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Sony is seeing “huge interest” from schools in its eReader electronic book reader, according to Stan Glasgow, the president and COO of Sony Electronics, the unit which sells all of the company’s non-Playstation electronics products in the US.
It’s a further sign that the education market might be a bigger early player in the ebook market [...]

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This story from Infoworld previews a significant development in the popular e-Ink screen technology that’s used in most of today’s dedicated ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the iRex Iliad.
The display could allow users to annotate pages in electronic books, make amendments to documents, and erase parts of the page with as much [...]

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