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Thank God, it is not T-Rex, but only I-Rex.

Well we like competition so that soon we can expect readers like these can be offered free or almost free soon (3-4 years) with money made from content or advertisement on content.

I-REX E READER

Wednesday saw the official announcement of a new e-reading device from iRex Technologies, the Dutch company that has previously released e-readers under the Iliad brand but now has the DR800SG, an 8.1-inch, $399 touch-screen reader that has wireless support from Verizon and Qualcomm (including a 3G Gobi radio), content from Barnes & Noble’s vast eBookstore and a retail sales outlet in Best Buy .

This year will be remembered as the year e-reading devices exploded, and there’s no denying that the February debut of Amazon’s second Kindle had a lot to do with driving widespread interest in the market. Therefore, all newcomers to e-reading — whether practiced hands such as Sony coming out with new devices or bust-outs such as the forthcoming e-reader from Plastic Logic — will be compared to Amazon, the market leader, on principle.

1. Big-name network and sales support :…Verizon,Best Buy,Barnes & Noble, Qualcomm…

2. Content that’s at the very least comparable : Offers more than 700,000 titles and public domain books from Google book digitization project.

3. Support for ePub : Supports ePub, the open source book standard format

4. The touch screen…

5. Experience: Have released a number of previous Iliad e-readers…

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