Copia promises to blend e-books and social networking into set of new readers
By Ross Miller 
posted January 6th 2010 9:47AM
posted January 6th 2010 9:47AM
DMC Worldwide Introduces Suite of COPIA E-Readers
Broad Lineup of Wireless Touchscreen Devices Combines a Portable Social Networking and Collaboration Experience with Access to a Wide Array of Digital Content
LAS VEGAS, CES 2010, Central Hall, Booth #9817, Jan. 6, 2010 – DMC Worldwide (DMCWW), a leading enterprise and consumer technology company, today introduced its suite of COPIA (www.thecopia.com) e-readers and related accessories. The e-readers, branded OCEAN and TIDAL, are full-featured wireless reading devices that enable users to connect with the COPIA (www.thecopia.com) community to discover, enjoy, share and purchase digital content including books, newspapers and magazines.
The COPIA e-readers offer an immersive and connected reading experience. The suite includes both monochrome e-paper-based touchscreens and panels with robust Wi-Fi or 3G wireless connectivity and advanced color e-readers designed for rich content. Each device is designed to extend the collaborative online experience of COPIA, a device-agnostic platform that DMC Worldwide unveiled today.
"The COPIA platform – including the online community, e-commerce engine and broad suite of devices – were designed to satisfy consumers' ferocious appetite for content consumption, as well as a shared experience," said Ben Lowinger, EVP, DMC Worldwide. "The devices match perfectly to the experience of reading a book, magazine or newspaper, and both TheCopia.com and COPIA e-readers offer a compelling online and hardware platform to deliver entertainment content through an experience which creates communities, drives commerce and fosters collaboration."
Key features of the COPIA e-readers include:
The Connected Experience
COPIA e-reader users can instantly connect to TheCopia.com, a device-agnostic, online destination that enables readers of all ages to experience a completely new way to discover, enjoy, share and purchase books, newspapers, magazines and a wide variety of digital content. COPIA combines a compelling social networking experience, collaboration and intuitive shared discovery with meaningful reading content. Students, as well as book groups, can highlight, annotate and connect to each other directly from the COPIA e-readers to the online COPIA community.
Broad Access to Content
The COPIA e-reader users will have access to a compelling array of content across best-sellers, popular titles, textbooks, public domain titles and an array of additional entertainment content, with new content being added daily. Current and future content agreements can be found at www.thecopia.com/press.
Pricing and Availability
The COPIA e-readers will be available for purchase online in April 2010 and at retail by June 2010 with prices ranging from $199- $299 (MSRP).
TheCopia.com will begin its private, limited-invitation beta in Jan. 2010. The public beta will launch in March 2010.
For more information on the COPIA e-readers, including hi-resolution images and a press release on the entire COPIA solution, please visit TheCopia.com media web site at www.thecopia.com/press. DMC Worldwide will display the COPIA e-reader lineup and demo the COPIA experience at CES 2010, Central Hall, Booth #9817. To schedule a briefing, please contact dmc@cohnwolfe.com.
Broad Lineup of Wireless Touchscreen Devices Combines a Portable Social Networking and Collaboration Experience with Access to a Wide Array of Digital Content
LAS VEGAS, CES 2010, Central Hall, Booth #9817, Jan. 6, 2010 – DMC Worldwide (DMCWW), a leading enterprise and consumer technology company, today introduced its suite of COPIA (www.thecopia.com) e-readers and related accessories. The e-readers, branded OCEAN and TIDAL, are full-featured wireless reading devices that enable users to connect with the COPIA (www.thecopia.com) community to discover, enjoy, share and purchase digital content including books, newspapers and magazines.
The COPIA e-readers offer an immersive and connected reading experience. The suite includes both monochrome e-paper-based touchscreens and panels with robust Wi-Fi or 3G wireless connectivity and advanced color e-readers designed for rich content. Each device is designed to extend the collaborative online experience of COPIA, a device-agnostic platform that DMC Worldwide unveiled today.
"The COPIA platform – including the online community, e-commerce engine and broad suite of devices – were designed to satisfy consumers' ferocious appetite for content consumption, as well as a shared experience," said Ben Lowinger, EVP, DMC Worldwide. "The devices match perfectly to the experience of reading a book, magazine or newspaper, and both TheCopia.com and COPIA e-readers offer a compelling online and hardware platform to deliver entertainment content through an experience which creates communities, drives commerce and fosters collaboration."
Key features of the COPIA e-readers include:
The Connected Experience
COPIA e-reader users can instantly connect to TheCopia.com, a device-agnostic, online destination that enables readers of all ages to experience a completely new way to discover, enjoy, share and purchase books, newspapers, magazines and a wide variety of digital content. COPIA combines a compelling social networking experience, collaboration and intuitive shared discovery with meaningful reading content. Students, as well as book groups, can highlight, annotate and connect to each other directly from the COPIA e-readers to the online COPIA community.
Broad Access to Content
The COPIA e-reader users will have access to a compelling array of content across best-sellers, popular titles, textbooks, public domain titles and an array of additional entertainment content, with new content being added daily. Current and future content agreements can be found at www.thecopia.com/press.
Pricing and Availability
The COPIA e-readers will be available for purchase online in April 2010 and at retail by June 2010 with prices ranging from $199- $299 (MSRP).
TheCopia.com will begin its private, limited-invitation beta in Jan. 2010. The public beta will launch in March 2010.
For more information on the COPIA e-readers, including hi-resolution images and a press release on the entire COPIA solution, please visit TheCopia.com media web site at www.thecopia.com/press. DMC Worldwide will display the COPIA e-reader lineup and demo the COPIA experience at CES 2010, Central Hall, Booth #9817. To schedule a briefing, please contact dmc@cohnwolfe.com.
e-book wars!
@DMC Worldwide, you're doing it wrong.
that big Ocean9 looks neat
the other ones have a .. boring style ..
What does the Tidal (the ones w/o the keyboard) have over Ocean that it's bulkier?
I guess when Ocean 11 comes out you'd be able to play Poker and Blackjack right? ;)
@Middleman no, there won't be poker and blackjack but there will be a highly orchestrated heist involving no less than 10 famous actors, an asian dude who can do flips and stuff, and a giant drill ... when ocean 13 is introduced though there my be a human induced earthquake that destroys the power grid of las vegas
Great... because there's nothing that disturbs reading a good book any more than "BING: TWITTER UPDATE"
What's the point as long as there aren't any affordable 16k color displays?
@MikeZ
most photocopies of notes and study material are still black and white.
@MikeZ
Whats the point of a 16k color display when you can use a netbook?
ebook readers are for reading... get this... text.
People, for once try to think before you type.
If you only need plain text one of the current readers is enough but once you get into areas like technical literature these readers become more or less unusable due to the need for multi-colored diagrams or syntax highlighing.
That's also an area that offers lots of commercial applications but for which b&w readers are complerely useless.
It might surprise you but there's people who read more than the latest biography of Paris Hilton of the fiftieth Harry Potter novel.
Seriously, who's buying these? Why would I want this over a $199 iPod Touch w/ Kindle or Stanza software?
@(Unverified)
Let me answer your question with another question(s):
-Who wants to read a book on a device with a 3.5" screen?
-Who wants to read for hours at a time on a LCD with backlight flicker?
Fail! These are all ugly. Thanks Copia!
I'm really confused. Are e-books REALLY selling this well? I dont commute on a train, or spend much time where people might find these useful, but I've never seen more than 1 kindle out and about. I saw a Sony e-ink device at Target for sale, but who is buying?
@(Unverified)
Maybe all the studious people who do not live in the U.S.
@sharkync I've never seen an e-book reader outside of a shop in the UK
@(Unverified) I've seen others (besides mine) on the subway in Toronto, and on an airplane from Hong Kong (it was a couple, each with their own). Plus my sister got one (without knowing about mine), and she's only semi-techy.
I think they're catching on, but I doubt they'll be the tsunami all the manufacturers hope for - they're just not glamorous enough.
so far the skiff has better res of all but gotta wait and see when it's finally out. Unfortunately the skiff is only limited to skiff store.
The marketing is growing, remember the MP3 craze when on...apple sat back and watch....learned...and seek improvements....so Sony, Amazon and other have screwed it up....now comes the apple table....hmmmm...similar pattern......
Really like the design of the Ocean's. The Tidal's are fugly, though.
So I can get an 9" Ocean 3G for under $300? Seriously, I'll take it right now.
Sexy