Plastic Logic to Introduce Electronic Newspaper

Lightweight screen mimics look of a printed newspaper
The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logic’s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents.
New York Times

New Kindle for 2008 Holiday Season

Release targeted at textbook sales
The Kindle, Amazon’s Linux-powered electronic paper book will have at least one new version out for the 2008 holiday season.The new Kindle, however, may be marketed more for college students returning to school in January rather than for finding a place under the Christmas tree. According to a report by Andreas James, Amazon will be marketing the revised “e-book reader to college students.” The plan seems to be to release the Kindle in conjunction with college textbook publishers. This way, the textbook publishers can sell more affordable e-textbooks, cutting out the used textbook vendors, and Amazon can move more Kindles.
Practical Technology

Comparing Kindle and iPod Touch

Both have wow factor
If someone would only synthesize the best features of Kindle and the iTouch, then we'd have an exceptional e-reader on our hands. For now, Kindle wins on the number of available titles and annotation features, while iTouch/Stanza is ahead on just about everything else.
Striphas

New Kindle Models Due in the Fall

First in stores early as October
It is said to be an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface. A source said that Amazon has “skipped three or four generations,” comparing the old Kindle to the 1st gen iPod and the new version to something like the sexy iPod Mini.
CrunchGear

Lessons From Kindle's Success

Ease of use, and yes, people do still read
Will Amazon founder Jeff Bezos feel victim to the temptation to believe that the Kindle is the only right answer and refuse to offer e-books for other devices? I think that when it comes to the size and shape of devices, we are moving into an era where there will be many more choices that will increasingly be based on personal taste. People choose writing pads of all sorts, from big yellow legal pads to those little bound notebooks with graph paper. In the same way, we are going to have very personal choices about what sort of connected computer we want to use for communicating, reading, working and so on.
NY Times Bits Blog

Why Sony Lost the Battle of the E-Book

Danger for Sony: it is already too late.
Sony has squandered an early lead in a new field because another company was better not just at inventing an electronic device but also at linking it to a wireless network and making it easy for consumers to use. The Sony product is the Reader, a portable device for reading electronic books, which the company launched two years ago. This time Sony’s competitor is Amazon, which has swept past Sony with the Kindle, a rival e-book reader that is showing every sign of becoming the iPod of this nascent market.
FT