Ideally Astak and other E Ink reader companies can work with the open source community to develop killer reader apps that would be far, far superior to the KindleвЂ™s. Meanwhile Feedbooks offers a wealth of public domain books and some others in that format. epub, and other majors are expected to follow in time. will be offering books in it directly to consumers, Hachette is already distributing books in. epub standard? Remember, Penguin in the U.K. Amazon seems to want to take over the world and we are trying to deal fairly but leave formats open.вЂќ Great, Robert B. It will, of course, also have TXT, PDF, RTF, HTML/CHM. вЂњWe are negotiating with Mobipocket/Amazon but they want exclusivity. вЂњWe know it will have eReader and books can easily be downloaded from Fictionwise,вЂќ RobertB said. A battery charge will last 8,000 pages, and SD memory expansion will go up to 4G.

Chip is to be a Samsung S3C2443 running at 400 MHz. According to RobertB, the Astak Mentor with a six-inch screen will sell for less than $200, weigh seven ounces, measure 7.5 by 4.75 inches and offer an 800-by-600-res screen with with 170 dots per inch and four grayscales. Six- and 9.7-inch screens will also be an option, as will 801.11g WiFi and touch screens. Is a $159 E Ink reader, called the Astak Mentor, on the way from a San Jose-based seller of wireless security cameras? Go to home page of Astak, Inc., and you wonвЂ™t see a mention of E Ink machines-just of wireless cameras.Д«ut someone identifying himself as an Astak guy has quietly posted to a Mobile Read forum saying that at the IDPFвЂ™s New York show on May 14, the company will unveil a five-inch E Ink machine that might sell for as little as $159.

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