Here's the conclusion of Ebouquin's review. They have a lot of good pictures on the site. On the whole they seem to have liked the Opus quite a bit, except for the price: Conclusion Avec son nouveau reader, le Cybook Opus, Bookeen prend la tête du cru 2009 des readers de poche. La société française propose un reader «toutes options» : design unique, logiciel ergonomique, support du format EPUB, accéléromètre, port d’extension MicroSD et livré avec une housse de grande qualité. Le tout dans un format réduit et avec une autonomie bien au-dessus de la concurrence. Certes, le tarif de...

Here's a link to a slideshow giving you a good look at the Opus and a comparison of it with other machines. ______________________ From the Google Book Blog: Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books. ---------------------- From AfterDawn: The latest Apple rumor today from multiple Internet sources is that the company has scheduled an event for the...

Thanks to Ebouquin for letting me know that the Cybook Opus is now available for purchase. According to Cybook's site the Opus, which has a 5" screen, costs $280. It has 1GB of internal memory for book storage. Unfortunately, it can only read “HTML, Txt, PDF and secured and non-secured Adobe EPUB/PDF” (talk about confusing language---does someone actually mean Adobe DRMed ePub and nonDRMed ePub and PDF?). The last time I tried this kludgy Adobe software, I found it to be consumer unfriendly, to say the least. You have to be a geek to use it. Further, the specs page says: Note:...

ebouquin sent me an email pointing to their new video of the Opus. Take a look, as the screen refresh is incredibly fast.  Here's what they say: LE DÉFILEMENT RAPIDE SUR LE CYBOOK OPUS Les membres de MobileRead savent trouver les limites d'un reader. Bien souvent, celles-ci se situent dans la gestion des formats de fichier, dans le manque d'ergonomie etc... Ayant reçu un avis globalement positif dans les épreuves précédentes, il ne nous restait plus qu'à voir si son écran en papier électronique (un élément crucial sur un reader !) était de qualité. Quelle joie lorsque nous...

Cybook Opus - First Lookby ebouquin...

I received the following email from Clement Monjou, Editor in Chief of Ebouquin in France: Hi, I read Teleread everyday. Thank you for all the work you do for fans of ebooks. I'm the chief editor of the first french ebook dedicated website. I was able to take a look at the new Bookeen device, the Cybook Opus. It has been shown for the first time last night in Paris. Take a look at my pictures and my article. Follow this link. http://www.ebouquin.fr/2009/07/05/nouveaute-presentation-complete-du-cybook-opus/ I have got...

Don Brubaker loyally bought hundreds of books in the DRMed Mobipocket format for his Cybook Gen3. But guess what. He’d like a second reader, and from what he’s heard, the new Cybook apparently won’t be able to read Mobi. See his tale of woe and my reply. Bookeen, maker of the Cybook, almost surely isn’t at fault. The villain is probably Amazon, the owner of Mobi. Last I knew, Amazon wouldn’t let e-reader makers embed both Mobi and a DRM-capable e-reader in a different format in the same devices. What’s more, if Don is in the U.S., the DMCA won’t...

So what does Bookeen’s Cybook Opus e-reader look like? Well, here’s a photo that was AWOL from a PDF as I viewed it for yesterday’s write-up mentioning the specs. The shot is reproed at MobileRead, where, as I expected, the new machine is generating its share of excitement. Look for the Opus unveiling next month, with such goodies as ePub and PDF capability, a motion sensor and 12 different font sizes. The screen may be five-inches---we’re not sure. At one store at least, the price is $249.95 Euros. It’s offering a high-res photo....

E-book glitches: Readers care, and even 99.95 percent accuracy isn’t good enough. ePub progress: Lots of it at Random House. And next month Bookeen will unveil the new Cybook Opus, able to read Adobe-DRMed ePub and PDF. Readers’ like and dislikes: Plenty of passion on the DRM issue. Those are among the tidbits showing up in presentations now downloadable from the IDPF’s May 12 Digital Book 2009 conference. “Today’s e-book consumer has higher standards than ever before,” notes a PDF submitted by Liisa McCloy-Kelley,...

When I first got my Kindle 1, I reviewed two of M-Edge’s cases here and here.  Now that I have my Kindle 2 I contacted M-Edge and they were good enough to send me review units of two of their new cases.  Here we are going to look at my favorite, the Platform.  Rather than use publicity pictures I always try to take my own so that you can see what units look like in “real life” The case is of pebbled padded leather with a strap down the front.  At the bottom the strap folds towards the back of the...

Resellers network grows You can find the Cybook Gen3 both on specialized online retailers like Justread in Germany or AppoloXXI in Spain, and generalist online sites as Bow.it in Italy, Develop-it in Belgium or Dicoland in France. Bookshops are also reselling the device. Now, you can find the Cybook Gen3 in physical stores like Feltrinelli in Italy and L’appel du livre in France but also on online eBook retailers like Elittera in Norway and Booksonboard for the North American territory. Lately, you can also find the Cybook Gen3 in outlets 5sur5 Powerstore, French network dedicated to new...

Calibre 0.5.0, the  newest incarnation of the popular e-book collection management tool and format converter, is out. Our congrats to developer Kovid Goyal! Here are the new wrinkles as he describes them in MobileRead: ---Support for new e-book reader devices: PRS-505/700, iPhone, Kindle 1 and 2, Cybook Gen 3 ---Conversion to the following formats: EPUB, MOBI and LIT. (LIT command line only) ---Conversion from the following formats: ODF (OpenOffice documents), MOBI, LIT, RTF, EPUB, PRC, CBR, CBZ, FB2, PDF ---The scheduled download of complete news articles from over a...