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Engadget: Interead's COOL-ER claims to be the 'iPod moment' for e-readers
CrunchGear: Video: Our Full Walkthrough Of The Color Coated COOL-ER Ebook Reader
PaulTech Network: Interead’s Cool-er Ebook Reader
T3.com News: COOL-ER tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com All: Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
Interead's COOL-ER claims to be the 'iPod moment' for e-readers
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Video: Our Full Walkthrough Of The Color Coated COOL-ER Ebook Reader
CrunchGear —
... The company is also launching an Ebook store alongside the device at CoolerBooks.com, which has over 750,000 available books. Anyone can buy books at 20% off list price, but Cool-er owners will get an extra 5% off across all books. This is a fairly good price, but when it comes to New York Times Bestsellers, Amazon leaves it in the dust - on the Kindle, a bestseller costs $9.99, while CoolerBooks appears to charge anywhere from $3-10 more per book. That said, CoolerBook does have significantly lower prices on some books that are not bestsellers, and the Cool-er’s initial ...
Interead’s Cool-er Ebook Reader
PaulTech Network —
... The Cool-er will start shipping in June, with an official launch show in New York at the end of this month. The cost will be $250. The obvious price point being lower than the Kindle or Sony Reader, for now. You can purchase a book from the catalog of 750,000 books at Cooler Books. The battery will last 8,000 page turns and the unit itself utilizes E-ink, like the other readers. And here’s the specs: ...
COOL-ER tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com News —
... This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily download text files of them from the internet for guilt-free reading, but coolerbooks.com will at least package them up in 19 different file formats for ease of access. They know how funny people can be about file formats. ...
Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com All —
... on its coolerbooks.com web site. This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily download text files of them from the internet for guilt-free reading, but coolerbooks.com will at least package them up in 19 different file formats for ease of access. They know how funny people can be about file formats. The company's ...
Coolerbooks.com tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com News —
... This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily download text files of them from the internet for guilt-free reading, but coolerbooks.com will at least package them up in 19 different file formats for ease of access. They know how funny people can be about file formats. ...
COOL-ER tries to make e-readers sexy, gets Google in to help
T3.com All —
... on its coolerbooks.com web site. This makes it the first non-US "ebookstore" to offer the over-one-million public domain books gathered together by Google, with the catch being... there's no catch. They're free. There's no law regarding these out-of-copyright books. You can just as easily download text files of them from the internet for guilt-free reading, but coolerbooks.com will at least package them up in 19 different file formats for ease of access. They know how funny people can be about file formats. The company's ...
Google Partners With COOLERBOOKS — Enters e-Book Game Directly
jkOnTheRun —
Google has been skirting around the e-book world for years, starting with the book scanning project a while back. That project was not without controversy, and its fruits recently formed a partnership with Sony to provide a million books to the Sony e-book store. Now comes word that Google has partnered with British e-book retailer COOLERBOOKS to enter the game directly.
COOLERBOOKS is the online store for British company Interead, and they already have a line of e-book readers for $249. The partnership gives Google a ready market, ...
