Samsung is now getting into the e-book game. It has developed its very own e-book reader, which will first be available in Korea for around $270. It’ll be Korea-only for a little while yet.
The reader, the SNE-50K e-book, has a five-inch touchscreen (the Kindle has a 6.5-inch screen) along with 250MB of storage.
Books will initially be supplied by Kyobo Bookstore, which is, as I understand it, on of South Korea’s biggest book sellers. So just because you’ve never heard of it doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal.
As far as relating it elsewhere, Samsung is in negotiations with book publishers to see if they’d be willing to release e-books for their reader.
So that makes three big e-book readers: the Kindle (including its different models), Barnes and Nobles’ upcoming e-book reader, and now Samsung’s.
Nothing wrong with choice, right?
Will it have Wi-Fi?
God I love Asian girls, I need to move.
Well, there’s a couple more than 3 big eBook readers. The iPhone is currently the largest installed ereader base, Sony has a slew of the devices available, and in Europe there are about half a dozen varieties.
Also, there are those of us looking forward to the CrunchPad as a fantastic eBook reader.
Why are all of these $200-400? I mean, they’re portable BOOKS for crying out loud. That’s all they do.
it is good that Samsung is increasing the readers of e book.
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Alexander Cruz