iriver Story e-reader shipping to US soil this month, WiFi version coming in Q2
By Darren Murph 
posted January 5th 2010 5:33AM
posted January 5th 2010 5:33AM
iriver Story eBook Is Showcased at CES and
Available In the States by Early 2010
Irvine, CA -- iriver, the award-winning producer of stylish digital devices, is showcasing the new iriver Story eBook at CES 2010 in the CES eBooks TechZone, space #12248 in Central Hall. Iriver is currently lining up content providers in preparation for the launch, and the current version of the Story will be available in January 2010 at select retailers, with an updated wifi version of the device available by the beginning of 2Q 2010. The Story recently had a successful launch in overseas markets that include UK, Germany and Korea.
The Story is the first eReader from iriver, but it aligns with the innovative style, design and features that are a hallmark of the brand's popular mp3 and portable media players. The Story sports a 6" e-Ink Display and is a super-slender .36 inches thick with a QWERTY keyboard.
Yong Keh, Director of Business Units for iriver, said, "We're excited to showcase the Story for the first time in the U.S. at CES 2010. iriver is working to outfit the Story with the most robust selection of content available, and we're currently meeting with major newspapers and publishers in preparation for the U.S. launch."
Key features include an eBook reader, office file viewer, mp3 Player, voice recorder and personal organizer with memo pad and scheduler. The Story eReader has a 2GB internal memory, with an SD card capacity of 16GB. It can store more than 13,000 book titles, is compatible with PDF, PPT, DOC and XLS office files, and plays mp3, wma or audio book files.
The Story also offers USB 2.0, headphones and comics viewer. With a long battery life of 9,000 page turns, the Story is ideal for work, the classroom and traveling.
Users can enjoy their purchased eBook and magazine content from any website that provides it through Adobe Digital Edition including CyberRead.com, FictionWise.com, ebooks.com, RandomHouse.com and many more. The Story will be compatible with other major content providers in Q1 of 2010.
The iriver Story will be competitively priced, and more details will be released as content and retail partners are finalized.
About iriver, Inc.
iriver Inc. is the award-winning producer of iriver digital A/V devices, owned by iriver, Ltd., the global digital A/V product powerhouse. Since its founding in 1999, iriver has become renowned for its product innovation, style-driven technology, and track record of market dominance. The company's ever expanding digital product lines include: Multimedia Devices (MP3. MP4, PMP, DMB), Network Devices (Home Media Center, Wi-Fi Network, Navigation products) and Content Devices (E-Dictionary, E-Book). For more information on iriver and its product lines, please visit: www.iriver.com.
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I like Australia actually got this before America :)
Means I don't have to go to posts from '08 to find what's new on our shores.
Looks like a Kindle of course, but goes well was iriver's overall design scheme.
it's already available in Romania:
http://www.emag.ro/ebook_reader/ebook-reader-iriver-story--p3EB022C-EUWEN1
No, I don't want to type on an e-reader; I prefer to just READ...
@pencilmind
Well, it's not like having a keyboard prevents you from reading. Besides, no one types on an e-reader. The keyboard is really convenient for entering searches though.
@Carld Actually a lot of people use eReaders for study and annotation. It is way easier to search your notes on a reader than the ones you scribble in the margins on a real book. Annotation would be absolutely pointless without either a keyboard or stylus.
price price price tell me its 300$ and go dream on I buy one any time soon.
I swear to God Im not badging till they drop prices sub 70$
kirf
A prettier version of the Kindle?
Yes please.
I recall that a german eReader site tested it and stamped it as fail, mostly due to software-fail .....
Problems to consider:
1. The Zoom with the four steps, should be possible to customize in settings, so I would be able to have it on medium/sec.medium/high as my own customized standard.
2. Zoom in both versions does not work in landscape mode. Why?
3. The corner Zoom has to be easier in functionality, (sorry but to 80es software engineer loves his idea)
4. When I have a book on my SD card and read in it, the Story does not save my Reflow and Zoom settings, this means that i every time I read a book from my SD card have to inter the settings once more. (sorry but that's really crappy)
5. Why does the Story not recognize any book in the book section when i only have my books on a SD card, should recognize them. (have my books on diffrent SD cards, categorized)
This means that each time re-inter another SD card it shall remember where i was in the book and what Reflow/zoom i had, otherwise it wont be real to call it an expansion possibility.
6. The Reflow display some pdf, very weird, exampled under:
Fred is fat and lives in a shel
ter while eating fish with his toes, and usually he sleeps with fresh herring under his pillow.
Unfortunate for the other resi
dents in the shelter, he is resisting any fish related arguments.
So it breaks the lines in some words, this is really not acceptable, please fix it.
7. Must agree with critics that it is cheap not to deliver a cover with the story.
8. There should be a possibility to set the story, to re-inter directly into the book you just read last time, so you dont have to g0 through the menu every time.
9. I can not bookmark pages in pdf's.
10. Recent book, should be resent books, if you are reading several at the time.