IRiver, a loser in the war between the iPod and All Other MP3 Players, has added a Wi-Fi e-reader to its smart Story range. The new Story is now on sale at the UK bookstore WHSmith, and will link up with WHSmith’s own e-book store.
Like iRiver’s old media players, the Story offers a lot of features not found elsewhere. In addition to decent format support (EPUB, PDF, TXT, FB2 and DJVU) it also displays comic-book sin the CBZ format, although of course you can’t view them in color on the grayscale 800 x 600 e-ink screen. You can also record voice-memos, listen to music (MP3, WMA and OGG) and slide in an SD card of up to 32GB (it also has 2GB on-board storage).
The big problem is the price. In a world where you pay $150 for big-brand e-books from Sony and Barnes and Noble, and even the Kindle is under $200, the Story costs way too much. The RRP is £250, which translates to an astonishing $380, or the price of the new black Kindle DX. Good luck with that.
Store page [WHSmith. Thanks, James!]
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