The eBook Reader Blog

Charbax from ARMdevices.net is at Computex 2013 this week and once again posted an interesting video that shows off some of Onyx International’s new Android-powered E Ink ebook readers as well as their 4.3″ E Ink Android smartphone. Unfortunately Onyx has virtually no presence in the United States so unless you follow the field of [...]

Earlier this month Sony revealed that they are planning on releasing a trial run of a new PDF reading device later this year in Japan that uses a 13.3″ Mobius E Ink screen. Sony’s device is the first to use a Mobius display, and that’s because Mobius was co-developed by Sony and E Ink in [...]

E Ink has announced that they have co-developed a new large format epaper display technology with Sony called Mobius that is going to start being mass producing later this year. Mobius displays measure in at 13.3 inches, and have a resolution of 1200×1600. The size is meant to correspond with a typical A4 size sheet [...]

That title isn’t necessarily a statement of fact. But when you stop and consider the circumstances and evaluate the evidence, it’s pretty easy to come to that conclusion. Why else wouldn’t Apple release a dedicated E Ink reading device to go along with their ebookstore? Apple opened the doors on the iBookstore back in early [...]

Earlier this month I posted an article about the Trekstor Pyrus Mini ebook reader. Not only is it the world’s smallest dedicated ereader with its 4.3″ screen, it’s also one of just a handful of ebook readers to ever use an epaper screen not produced by the company E Ink. All the Kindles, Nooks, Kobos, [...]

One question that often comes up with regards to ebook readers and tablets is which is better for ereading? Some people have a hard time trying to choose between something like the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD, especially when buying them as a gift for someone else. The main thing to consider is [...]

E Ink was at CES last week and as usual they had some demo products to display. E Ink is best known for the screens that they supply for ebook readers. The vast majority of E Ink screens are monochrome, but they also make color screens as well. E Ink calls them Triton displays. Color [...]

2013 looks like it’s going to be the year of the E Ink smartphone. In earlier posts we’ve seen prototypes of E Ink covers for the iPhone, Android-powered E Ink phones, and dual-screen phones. A Russian company called Yota Devices aims to be one of the first companies to release a dual-screen phone that has [...]

One way or another E Ink is going make its way onto smartphones. A couple of months back Onyx International showed off an Android-powered phone with an E Ink screen, and the company E Ink themselves demonstrated a prototype of a dual-sided Android phone with an LCD screen on one side and an E Ink [...]

Today PocketBook announced that they’ve got a new ebook reader in the works that uses a color E Ink screen combined with a frontlight. A few prototypes of color E Ink screens with frontlights have made cameo appearances in video interviews with E Ink, so it was just a matter of time before a company [...]