I love the idea of people being able to download e-books from directly within their e-reader programs or dedicated reader hardware.
No need for the horrors of ActiveSync or HotSync. Life’s simpler that way.
The Amazon Kindle—let’s assume it’s still alive, which I do—will presumably have such a wrinkle. But who needs the Kindle for simplified downloading to happen? And I don’t just mean the eBookwise machine.
eReader Pro, now available for free for Windows Mobile, apparently lets you “directly download content from the eReader store” if your wireless carrier has the appropriate arrangements. So says Kevin at jkOnTheRun.
Other than PDF (perhaps used mostly for printing) and RTF (big printout factor, too, probably), eReader is the most popular format at Manybooks.net.
Also at jKOnThe Run: Word that Asustek plans a low-cost handheld (via Mike Cane). Let’s hope an e-reader gizmo can follow. Asustek’s low-cost EEE laptops, meanwhile, are moving very briskly, according to Digitimes, source of the handheld info.
Related: eeeuser.com site (thanks, Bill).
Technorati Tags: Austek , Amazon , Kindle , eReader , eReader Pro , PDAs
I just bought ereader pro!
But hopefully not the Windows Mobile version, where the page does say “free” without the word “tryout.” – David
Mobipocket has had this feature built-in for quite some time…
But Mobi’s “buy” feature is browser based. You just go to the store. Or am I wrong? Educate me if I am. Thanks. David
The mobipocket buy feature is included in the software, but it simply display the website. I would call it browser based too…