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Ditto Book Digital Reading Device Hits the Market

By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 7/6/2009 7:49:00 AM

http://tinyurl.com/luhp3y

Cheaper than the Kindle, and will support the major open e-publishing format that's been agreed on!
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[identity profile] incandragon.livejournal.com 2009-07-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. I don't know. There are four magic things about the Kindle: ease of use/storage, wireless "spur of the moment" downloads, dictionary, and Wikipedia access. (I'm not putting down "sample" purchase, which is good mojo, and Ditto doesn't mention it.) As far as I can tell, the Ditto only has one, so at $100 cheaper than a kindle, it's still about $150 too much.

I'm not getting anything yet --

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2009-07-07 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if I wanted to spend the money on one. Although depending on the eye thing, I may need to. As a writer, the royalty split is small -- they are taking a chunk o' change. I'm putting my SF into E-book to keep Amazon and Google from poaching....
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