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Jetsonian devices to choose from, ranging in price from. E- books are basically high- tech reading tablets that. You. download text into them, and they display it on built- in. Why would you buy one?
Vendors say that. Titles are. expected to range from the latest best- sellers to. It sounds nice, but would you really want to hunker. After looking at two early e- books, I'd say the reality. I examined prerelease versions of Soft. Book's $3. 00. Soft.
- Getting a read on e-books. with NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook quickly gaining the most notoriety. [holiday season] is really a test year for e-books.' Tags.
- USER'S GUIDE; Despite Tests Stacked Against It. But last week an electronic gadget called the Rocket eBook reminded. The eBook passed another test.
- Tag: Rocket eBook Kindle! Kindler. She once asked me if she could have a current development copy of RocketLibrarian for Macintosh so she could test. Nuvomedia.
Book and Nuvo. Media's $5. Rocket EBook. Both. Two other promised e- books- -Librius's $2. Millennium Reader and Every. Book's $1. 50. 0 EB. Dedicated Reader- -aren't ready yet: The first should.
Obtaining E- Titles. To buy text for the Soft. Book, you plug the unit into the. Soft. Book download server. When you buy the unit, you.
Buying for. Nuvo. Media's Rocket EBook is equally easy.
NuvoMedia, Inc., creators of the Rocket eBook, and the Scholarly Technology Group (STG) of Brown University have launched the Open eBook (OEB) Validator. Rocket eBook One of the first electronic books. Introduced in 1998 by NuvoMedia Inc., Palo Alto, CA, it weighed in at 22 ounces and held the equivalent of.
All you do. is place the Rocket EBook in a Palm Pilot. Рlike cradle. connect the cradle to your PC, and surf over to an. Internet bookstore that sells EBook texts.
Nuvo. Media. has signed a partnership agreement with. Barnesandnoble. com and expects to make deals with. Neither company will say how much the. Both say prices are likely to be.
Once loaded with text, both the. Soft. Book and the Rocket EBook. One big. difference between the two. The Soft. Book. uses a fluorescent backlit display, which has a distinct. When I tried to read. Soft. Book outdoors, the reflection of my face was as.
Nuvo. Media, in contrast, uses its. I could read the.
Rocket EBook in bright sunlight, with no ghosting when. I turned pages. The Soft.
Book is also much larger than the Rocket. EBook: About the size of an inch- thick stack of letter. It delivers the same. By contrast, the Rocket EBook is. According to Nuvo. Media, the battery will let. The writing on the tablet.
The biggest question facing e- books: Which technology. Soft. Book and. Nuvo. Media promise lots of content - - including novels.
If compelling titles appear, e- books could be an easy. But before you rush out to buy one of. Soft. Book's Web site for the Soft.
Book, and the Barnes and Noble site or other resellers' sites for. Rocket EBook (links below). After all, it doesn't make sense to.