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Can Cool-er e-reader undercut Amazon Kindle sales?

Interead's CEO and founder Neil Jones has been moving and shaking the past few months, preparing his upstart U.K.-based company to launch a new lightweight e-book reader, the woefully-hyphenated Cool-er, that would sharply undercut the $359 price of Amazon's Kindle 2 with a $250 price tag....

Tags: Headphone, Battery, Amazon.com Inc., Sales, Amazon Kindle, Interead, Jones, Engineering, E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-14

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Cool-er e-book reader has value, barebones appeal

The Interead Cool-er e-book reader is just $250, cheaper than Sony's PRS e-reader and Amazon's Kindle. But is it worth the price? Here's a quick visual tour around the device. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: E-book Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, product photos, e-book, e-reader, Amazon Kindle, Cool-er, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-06-10

Cool-er e-book reader has value, barebones appeal [review]

The Interead Cool-er e-book reader is just $250, cheaper than Sony's PRS e-reader and Amazon's Kindle. But is it worth the price? I go hands-on to find out. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: E-book Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-09

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Google to sell e-books by end of 2009; what will Amazon do?

Amazon, get ready: Google's throwing its hat into the e-book ring. Google has indicated its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google, according to a...

Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-01

News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOL

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Meet Google Wave: a new way to communicate and collaborate Google Wave: It's still a work in...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Verizon Wireless, Semiconductors, Social Networking, H-1B, Strategy, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far away

Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far awayBut for use outside education?I'm interested in an e-reader because I like to read books on my train commute, or even just at home, and an e-reader would fit better in my purse than a netbook (it would be lighter too!).I know I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Interead Cool-er, e-Reader

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Interead Cool-er: so close yet so far away

A cheaper competitor to Kindle? No wireless plans to subsidize with high prices? Easy syncing with PCs and Macs? Is Interead's Cool-er finally an appealing choice for mass deployments of e-readers in schools? Most reviews seem to be focusing on the ways in which this isn't as good as...

Tags: Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-28