Baen Bar to sell e-book hardware next year? With E Ink or another advanced display?
Wouldn’t this be interesting—a Baen Bar e-book gizmo that read a bunch of formats via FBRreader-style software and included an advanced display, perhaps in the E Ink or cholesteric LCD vein? What if it came with some text-search features and was a bit cheaper than the Sony Reader?
Those are among the possibilities raised in an e-book hardware roundup today from DearAuthor.com. Hey, Ja(y)ne. I can think of a “feature” that a Baen Reader would almost surely lack: DRM. Talk about ways to enhance value from a consumer perspective! Among the Baen Bar’s possible suppliers, says DearAuthor, might be Bookeen.
Source of the experimental design shown here, Bookeen has mentioned the possible use of tech from E Ink, Nemoptic or Plastic Logic.
January 8th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
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