Bookseller Barnes & Noble might be best known for its Nook e-reader, but, unlike competitor Amazon.com, the company seems keen to embrace ereader devices from a variety of manufacturers into an open ecosystem. The next contender in the Barnes & Noble universe will apparently be the Samsung E6, a 6-inch Eink ereader that will market Samsung’s first entry in the U.S. ereader market. Samsung demonstrated the device at CES in January, and now says its launch via Barnes & Noble is “imminent.”The E6 features an 800 by 600-pixel 6-inch Eink 8-levels-of-great display and supports common formats like text, PDF, BMP, JPEG, and Epub—which is handy, because Barnes & Noble’s content library is based on the Epub format, with more than 1 million books and periodicals available. The E6 features integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless networking, 2 GB of internal memory (and microSD expansion for up to 16 GB more), an integrated MP3 player, a microphone (for voice recording), text-to-speech technology, and features a electromagnetic resonance (EMR) stylus pen that users can use to make annotations, memos, and manage their schedules—and those schedules can be synced with Outlook. There’s also the rather unfortunately-named “EmoLink” technology that enables readers to share content between Samsung Reader devices.
Neither Samsung nor Barnes & Noble have announced pricing for the Samsung E6; however, the companies were talking about a $399 price point during CES.
Neither Samsung nor Barnes & Noble have announced pricing for the Samsung E6; however, the companies were talking about a $399 price point during CES.
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