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.

According to New York Times, Chinese e-book reader maker Hanvon is going to launch the first e-book reader with E-Ink’s new …

Energy Sistem launches its Color Book series color e-book reading device with a 5-inch color LCD display with 800×480 resolution. The multimedia Color Book supports not only TXT, HTML, PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF, MOBI, CHM, DOC document/e-book files, but plays also WMA, MP3 audio; MP4, WMV, AVI, RMVB, FLV, ASF, 3GP, MOV video; and JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF images. It is more like a portable media player with e-book reading function.

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.

Sharp Galapagos 5.5-inch

Sharp announced in Japan its Galapagos series color e-book readers, the 5.5-inch Mobile model with a 1024×600 screen and the 10.8-inch Home with 1366×768 screen. Both devices support WiFi 802.11b/g. Over 30,000 newspapers, magazines and books will be released alongside with the Galapagos readers in December.

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 …

After Amazon introduced the new improved, cheaper Kindle, a company called Copia announced that it is going to release a 5-inch e-book reader called the Ocean Reader with a price of $99.

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 …