TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Cybook news
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009By Paul Biba
You can find the Cybook Gen3 both on specialized online retailers like Justread in Germany or AppoloXXI in Spain, and generalist online sites as Bow.it in Italy, Develop-it in Belgium or Dicoland in France. Bookshops are also reselling the device. Now, you can find the Cybook Gen3 in physical stores like Feltrinelli in Italy and L’appel du livre in France but also on online eBook retailers like Elittera in Norway and Booksonboard for the North American territory.
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you can also find the Cybook Gen3 in outlets 5sur5 Powerstore, French network dedicated to new communication technologies, as well as on the Polish and Czech specialist stores eMedia and Acomp.
Finally, the Cybook made a noticed entry in the famous Brentano’s bookstore, located in the heart of Paris.
Angers’ university library (France), is now sharing a new idea: experimentation on process and use of the Cybook Gen3 for the students.
They just got equipped with a dozen of Cybooks. Daniel Bourrion (librarian in charge of the digital library) will put Cybooks in students’ hands, allowing a better understanding of the use of eReaders on campus. For more information please visit the blog of Daniel http://detoutsurrien.wordpress.com/ under the heading "Mon e-reader s’appelle reviens". Only in internal loan for the moment, the Cybook Gen3 will be available to students once system and uses be clearly established.
Comics on the Cybook - let’s hope for more
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009By Paul Biba
Comics are something that hasn’t made a big e-book splash, and understandably so. They require a fairly large screen and many require color. So it’s good to see that Bookeen is trying them out. From the Bookeen blog:
From now on you can find 5 eBooks demo from Foolstrip in your Cybook.
Foolstrip is a French comic’s publisher coming from the web and going imprint with some best seller. For this latest bundle, Foolstrip has worked directly to adapt their comics to the Cybook format.
This is just a beginning in exploring the comic’s e-reading performance.
I’m a big comic fan. One of my proudest possessions is a complete set of Walt Kelly’s Pogo series (need to re-read that some day). My current favorite is the beautifully drawn Girl Genius series. It’s available on line and if you don’t know it you should take a look, but the beautiful drawing and color makes hard copy versions essential.
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'The book’s women...radiate that screwball-comedy pizzazz a la Roz Russell’s Hildy Johnson in the film His Girl Friday.'
