The latest newborn; the e-book market has few drawbacks. If we discount the iPhone (and you should, because right now it's still a pain to get any text on there) then we’re left with Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. The Kindle is probably the best of these -– the only place it really loses out is battery life.
So, any newcomer really needs to beat the Kindle, either on price, features or availability of book.
So, any newcomer really needs to beat the Kindle, either on price, features or availability of book.
Unfortunately, the Dutch BeBook does none of these and thus can’t beat the kindle. lets see why!
First: It costs $510 against the Kindle's $400.
Second:It doesn't have a dedicated store and most significant of all, it doesn't have the Kindle's killer feature, an “always on EVDO internet connection”.
Although the “BeBook” has the looks to beat the others, as it supports all the usual formats (pdf, doc, txt, wolf, html, mp3, png, tiff, gif, jpg and bmp), still it has an SD-card slot used to “boost its 512MB built in memory” and, because it uses e-ink, the battery will last for weeks. Therefore, no one will buy it and thus kindle will be again the first ranked e-book reader having its everlasting battery.
In fact everything has it pros and cons. However, bebook has only 1 advantage.The only advantage the bebook has is that it is available worldwide, unlike the Kindle. Once Amazon sorts out its production troubles, though, and cuts some deals with non-U.S. telcos for web access, the BeBook will just be an interesting footnote in e-book history.
Marny
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