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The Daily to launch in Europe by June

March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · ipad app

Rupert Murdoch is a believer in failing big. That’s why he’s going to launch the Daily in as many countries as he can before it implodes. Jonathan Miller, CDO at News Corporation,was speaking on a panel at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit when he was asked about the future of The Daily. He said that [...]

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Asus eeeNote EA800 coming to Europe in February

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

The other Asus e-reader just got price and release date. Asus plan to have this available in Europe next month with a retail of 259 € (about $355USD). The eeeNote is based on a low powered 8″ grayscale LCD screen (1024×768), and it has a Wacom touchscreen with a pressure sensitive pen, Wifi, 4GB Flash, [...]

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Sagem Binder e-reader hits Europe: touchscreen, 3G & WiFi for €199

October 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Sipix

Do you recall the Oyo and Fnacbook I showed you a few weeks ago? They’re basically the same device, and the Binder from Sagem Wireless is the OEM model. In other words, Sagem developed the design and then licensed it to various companies. Today Sagem decided to announce that the OEM model was available. My [...]

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Kobo planning to expand to Europe

October 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

So last night I discovered that the Lookbook had a list of the members of the Kobo design team. I of course started Googling the names, and I found the various people on LinkedIn and their personal web sites. Out of curiosity, I checked the Kobo website to see what positions were open and I [...]

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Foxit withdraw from Europe

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s official. Actualitte is reporting that PDf software maker Foxit has shut down their European subsidiary.  They’ve already ceased operations, and will formally shut down by 30 June. So what does this mean for ebooks? Not much. Their e-reader development team had always been based in the US and Taiwan, not Europe. The only conclusion [...]

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Entourage Edge coming to Europe in July

June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

I’ve just gotten word (via MobileRead) that the Edge will be available in Europe in July.  Here’s the email one member got from Entourage: Thanks for your email and interest in enTourage eDGe. We will start the official distribution in Europe at the beginning of July. However I can offer you the possibility to pre-order [...]

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InfoTrends Announces Study on Reading & Digital Content in Europe

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls

From the press release: InfoTrends has polled over 1,300 European consumers from five countries to get a better understanding of the dynamics at work, and has complemented those insights with additional data on reading and publishing trends to create a report entitled  Consumer Media Preferences – The Future of Publishing Applications. … The report discusses [...]

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