http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/two-new-e-book-readers-appear-no-much-information/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/two-new-e-book-readers-appear-no-much-information/comment-page-1/#comment-1026533 igorsk Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:17:40 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=19242#comment-1026533 Oh, the device will be likely named either Pocketbook 201 or Pocketbook 360°. Bookeen did not announce any plans yet (Cybook 4?). Oh, the device will be likely named either Pocketbook 201 or Pocketbook 360°. Bookeen did not announce any plans yet (Cybook 4?).

]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/two-new-e-book-readers-appear-no-much-information/comment-page-1/#comment-1026531 igorsk Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:15:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=19242#comment-1026531 You've got it all backwards (though with it's not hard with all the rumor mill going on). Mentor is the name of the upcoming line of readers from Astak (a US company currently selling rebranded Jinke Hanlin V3 as EZ Reader in US) which will be based on units produced by Taiwanese Netronix (e.g. Bookeen Cybook3 is rebranded Netronix EB-600). The device on the photo is a prototype shown by _Ukrainian_ company Pocketbook (they also sell a customized version of EB-600). However, Bookeen came out and claimed that they have exclusive rights on that design. PocketBook gave in and said they will change the design for their device. We'll probably never know all the details, but so far it seems Netronix worked with all three companies (PocketBook, Astak, Bookeen) for the 5" design and somehow promised exclusive rights to both PocketBook and Bookeen. You’ve got it all backwards (though with it’s not hard with all the rumor mill going on).
Mentor is the name of the upcoming line of readers from Astak (a US company currently selling rebranded Jinke Hanlin V3 as EZ Reader in US) which will be based on units produced by Taiwanese Netronix (e.g. Bookeen Cybook3 is rebranded Netronix EB-600). The device on the photo is a prototype shown by _Ukrainian_ company Pocketbook (they also sell a customized version of EB-600). However, Bookeen came out and claimed that they have exclusive rights on that design. PocketBook gave in and said they will change the design for their device.
We’ll probably never know all the details, but so far it seems Netronix worked with all three companies (PocketBook, Astak, Bookeen) for the 5″ design and somehow promised exclusive rights to both PocketBook and Bookeen.

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