Berlin, October 14th, 2009. This is what fans of digital reading pleasure have been waiting for: Today, txtr GmbH presents its online-compatible txtr Reader at the Frankfurt Book Fair. At the same time, the txtr Store is launched, allowing to easily and conveniently acquire eBooks from your home and soon also when you are away from home. In contrast to competitors, txtr Reader as well as the platform are open for developers in the form of an SDK with documented APIs. Thus it will be still this year that the Berlin based start-up company will offer the first open overall solution for acquiring, storing, publishing, and sharing digital documents – while allowing full mobility. And the reading matter will be provided, too: The txtr Reader will have the successful novel “Paradiso” by Thomas Klupp pre-installed which was published in 2009 by Berlin Verlag, as well as numerous excerpts from notable publishing companies such as Rowohlt, S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Droemer Knaur, Luchterhand, DVA, and Heyne, and also complete versions of Polyglott Cityguides and Langenscheidt language guides.On December 1st, 2009, the sale of the txtr Reader for 319.00 €, including VAT, is launched on txtr.com. It is planned to deliver the first devices to customers in all of Europe and in the US already before Christmas. Mobile Phone and Shop System will be available by then within Germany, an extension of the services to include Austria and Switzerland is planned for 2010. Navigating within txtr Store and downloading of the bought documents via txtr Net remain cost-free. For synchronizing digital texts, publications, and books between platform and Reader the price after one test month is 14.99 € per month or 11.99 € per month when the customer chooses to use it for three months or twelve months respectively. Each owner of a txtr Reader from the very start can search, buy, and download from the txtr Store more than 20,000 eBooks in ePub-format and synchronize the texts he stored at txtr.com. When you add the texts that are uploaded by the txtr community and the German and English eBooks by projects like Gutenberg and Manualsmania, the user has access to about a million digital open source documents.
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