Sony announced its new PRS-700 Reader Digital Book, joining te PRS-505. Sony PRS-700 features a 6-inch touchscreen with the E-ink technology, and an LED reading light. It comes with internal …

Other than the Mentor and ProMentor e-book readers, Astak is going to launch its first eBook reader, the EZ Reader, in late November 2008. Astak’s first EZ Reader is …

Sony announced its new PRS-505 ebook reader that supports the ePUB format, which the world’s first. The ePub format is  the International Digital Publishing Forum’s XML-based standard format for reflowable digital books and publications.

Other than ePub support, this new ebook reader can also open …

Netronix announced two new e-books, the 6-inch EB-100 and 9.5-inch EB-300. Netronix EB-100 has a 6-inch 800×600 display and it runs Linux OS. The more advanced EB-300 has a 9.5-inch display with 1200×825 resolution, 64MB RAM. 4GB NAND storage, and a SD card …

Expected to be released in November,  Staretek’s “STAReBOOK e-book reader,”  has two Chinese versions and one in English. The e-book reader will come with a 6-inch SVGA 800 x 600 four-color grayscale e-ink display, an ARM-based 250MHz Samsung processor, 64MB SDRAM, USB 2.0 connectivity, SD slot (MMS compatible), mono speaker. The device runs on Linux 2.4.1 with built-in MP3 player and it is priced at $400.

The reader measures 188mmx118mmx 85mm and weighs 250g.

The Sony Portable Reader System PRS-500 has finally been placed on Sony Store’s e-merchant portal though still on pre-order. Sony’s PRS-500 is the first 4-shade e-ink reading device.