Hearst to launch own ebook reader

Hearst, owner of dying medium, is to release an ebook reader in the same vein as the Kindle and Sony Reader. [Forbes]

[#1 posted by TheMadCreator , February 27, 2009 12:36 PM]

will it be called Rosebud?

[#2 posted by nehpetsE , February 27, 2009 2:00 PM]

the monitor will show text in yellow.

as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

[#3 posted by Dean , February 27, 2009 2:12 PM]

@1 No, Xanadu.

[#4 posted by TheMadCreator , February 27, 2009 3:14 PM]

nice one, @3

[#5 posted by SimeonW , March 1, 2009 7:29 AM]

If it is named Rosebud and comes in yellow, I might buy it. However, the big question I asked myself is why would a newspaper company do such a thing? Then I remembered a post that I read on one of the Boing Boings about a story in the Silicon VAlley Insider, stating that printing the NYT costs about twice as much as just giving every subscriber a Kindle. What if the Hearst corporation read that too? Maybe they are smart?

[#6 posted by dainel , March 2, 2009 7:43 AM]

Subscribe to the NYT for a year. Get a Kindle free.

[#7 posted by Daemon , March 2, 2009 5:25 PM]

I have a better idea... rather than make one like the kindle or the reader, make one that's affordable and can handle plain PDFs.

[#8 posted by badosa , March 7, 2009 3:09 AM]

In fact, this is old news. @3 Xanadu would indeed be a good name (with Ted Nelson's permission, of course) but it's too long: what about simply the K-book?