Toshiba introduced in Japan its new BookPlace DB50 (model DB50/25E/PDB5025ENAW) color e-book reader, joining the company’s Excite X10, Thrive and AT200 tablets. The 7-inch e-reader offers direct access to Toshiba’s BookPlace e-book store for thousands of books. The DB50 comes with a 7-inch 600×1024 color LCD display with LED-backlight

NOOK Color

With the new NOOK Tablet joining the line-up, B&N lowers the prices of NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch (known as NOOK Touch before) to $199 and $99 respectively. While the prices are dropped, B&N releases software updates to both of them.

Archos is launching the Archos 70b Android-based e-book reader in Europe. The 7-inch device has a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen and supports WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity. The 70b has 4GB internal storage and offers SD …

Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet

Velocity Micro releases its Cruz Tablet T103 and Cruz Reader R101. Both of them are available at Amazon and are priced at $267.19 and $149.99, respectively. The Cruz Tablet and Cruz Reader both have a 7-inch touchscreen. The former gets a capacitive touchscreen with 16:9 800×480 resolution while the latter has a 4:3 800×600 display.

Barnes & Noble (B&N) introduces the new NOOKcolor e-book reader with a full color touchscreen display for delivering digital books, magazines, newspapers and children’s books in “immersive, gorgeous” color. The reader comes with a 7-inch VividView color 1024 x 600 IPS touchscreen display with ability to display over 16 million colors and an extra wide viewing angle.

ViewSonic is launching in China market the MB-P702 7-inch color e-book reader that doubles as a portable media player. The P702 has a 7-inch color LCD touchscreen display …

Sony PRS-350 Reader Pocket Edition

Sony introduces its new range of e-book digital readers, including the 5-inch PRS-350 Reader Pocket Edition, 6-inch PRS-650 Reader Touch Edition and the wireless 7-inch PRS-950 Reader Daily Edition. All of them utilize E-ink Pearl electronic paper displays with full touchscreen offering a high contrast ratio with 16 levels of grayscale.

Pandigital adds to its Novel line the new 7-inch multimedia color e-book reading device (model PRD07T20WBL1). The new 7-inch Novel has a full color …

Augen offers a 7-inch e-book reader called The Book. The device has 2GB internal storage and supports SD card up to 32GB. It comes with a 7-inch 800×480 LCD display, full QWERTY keyboard, built-in speaker and headphones jack. It is powered by a 400MHz ARM9 processor and runs Linux OS.

Gemei, a Chinese PMP maker, is going to release the GM2000 e-book reader. Instead of e-ink display, Gemei’s reader will come with a 7-inch color LCD touchscreen. Other than reading e-books, the GM2000 also includes …