Toshiba BookPlace Mono Launched In Japan

Toshiba BookPlace Mono Launched In JapanToshiba has just introduced a new e-book reader to the market, although they are targeting the Land of the Rising Sun this time around with the Toshiba BookPlace Mono. This will definitely cater for the budget-minded, as how expensive can a monochrome e-book reader cost to manufacture, anyways? The Toshiba BookPlace Mono is a wee bit smaller in terms of dimensions compared to its BookPlace DB50 reader, where it will sport a 6-inch E Ink display with 758 x 1,024 pixels resolution, chungging away to an 800MHz processor that is accompanied by 512MB RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity, 4GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot, and an USB port.

It seems that the Toshiba BookPlace Mono has been slapped with a $100 price tag or thereabouts, where a Benjamin (after conversion, of course) would not only net you the e-book reader, but also a set of books to get you started right out of the box. Come to think of it, how many of you folks out there use a dedicated e-book reader to get your daily dose of reading done?

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Toshiba – Digital book service “BookPlace Cloud Innovation” and digital book reader “BookPlace MONO”

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Toshiba has introduced a combined digital book content service and digital reader.

It’s content service, “BookPlace Cloud Innovation” was started today, and is aiming to store 100,000 digital books by this coming summer. The content service is accessible over smart devices – Android smart phone, Android tablet, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, iPad mini (on PCs in May or later) – and purchased content can be accessed on 5 different devices with the same account.

Toshiba’s hardware, the digital book reader, “BookPlace MONO” (with contents) will be available on April 16.

It will be sold with accompanying “sets” of digital volumes as follows:

“BookPlace MONO” and 1 set: ¥13,900
“BookPlace MONO” and 2 sets: ¥19,800
“BookPlace MONO” and 3 sets: ¥24,900
1 set = 15-20 volumes

“BookPlace MONO” will be sold only with contents or dedicated points that you can use at BookPlace (http://bookplace.jp/), it’s download site.

Bookplace has partnered with 5 major book stores to sell/promote the contents and BookPlace MONO.

BookPlace MONO specs:
Display: 6 inch electronic paper
Resolution: 758×1024 dot, 16 gradation grayscale
Touch panel: optical touch panel
Built-in memory/ software capacity: 4GB/ 1.2GB
microSD memory card slot: 1 slot (microSD memory card, micro SDHC memory card
Communication: Wi-fi, IEEE802.11b/g/n
External terminal: micro USB2.0 (microB) x 1, headphone terminal (3.5mm mini jack) x 1
Battery life: Approx. 8,000 pages (depends on reading environment)
Size: Width 110 mm, Height 170 mm
Weight: 180 g
Accessories: microUSB cable