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]


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will it be called Rosebud?

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@1 No, Xanadu.

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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?

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

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

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#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.

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#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?

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