Toshiba Book Place full-color e-book store is powered by Blio, launches soon (video)

And here we go, an honest to goodness book store built around Ray Kurzweil's Blio e-reader software. It's been a long time coming and still it's only a teaser page, but Toshiba is promising to unleash its Book Place store "in the coming weeks" stocked with "thousands" of full-color e-books. The Blio software, you might remember from our video hands-on, offers a fully interactive reading experience rich in multimedia capabilities and should run beautifully on oh, say, Toshiba's new dual-screen Libretto W100. Man, when did Toshiba suddenly become interesting? See it in a cheesy, promotional packaging rager (that hints at an iOS app at the 2.42 mark) after the break.

[metanup Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:14AM]

What is the avrage age group of who buy ebooks and read it?

[Almo Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:37AM]

@metanup

I have no idea but pretty sure it's not the teens... Mid life crisis onwards maybe? Or grannies at the local park?

[ilh Posted Jul 1st 2010 7:43AM]

@Almo
I'm early twenties and i've started to read ebooks on my Desire on the daily commute as I have no other time to read.

[Skafri Posted Jul 1st 2010 9:25AM]

@metanup personally, I know of people ages 21, 26, 30, and 43 who love their Kindle. Not exactly teens, but not little old ladies either.

[jasonact Posted Jul 1st 2010 11:07AM]

@metanup

I'm 33, and I love my nook.

[delicatessen lama Posted Jul 1st 2010 9:32PM]

@metanup there is no age group

[DavidT Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:38AM]

Book Place

Catchy name, Toshiba.

[meeku Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:40AM]

"Man, when did Toshiba suddenly become interesting?"

Probably since they released the Portégé in the mid-1990s. At least that's when they became interesting to me.

[TechBlogger Posted Jul 1st 2010 10:36AM]

I really like this. I need more information on it but I like this.

[kenjennings Posted Jul 1st 2010 1:00PM]

I guess this means the Blioreader should be "available soon". The last time I read the words "available soon" in one of their press releases was back in Feb.

The simulations and demos look very promising. Hope they live up to their hype (and delays).