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. [TheMadCreator]

   nice one, @3

2. [SimeonW]

   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?

3. [TheMadCreator]

   will it be called Rosebud?

4. [Daemon]

   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.

5. [dainel]

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

6. [nehpetsE]

   the monitor will show text in yellow.

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

7. [Dean]

   @1 No, Xanadu.

8. [badosa]

   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?