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Toshiba launching new eBook Store powered by Bilo

toshiba book place

The Latest Good E-Reader news has Toshiba getting into the E-Books game by launching their own store in the next two weeks.

The Toshiba eBook Store will be called the “Toshiba Book Place” powered by the Bilo E-Reading software. The Book Place will offer a full-color, 3-D, interactive reading experience – powered by Blio, the world’s most engaging and innovative e-reading software. Toshiba Book Place brings books to life with a variety of unique features, including audio in multiple languages, hyperlinks, note-taking and exporting, text-to-speech capabilities and much more. The one good factor to the Book Place is that it uniquely brings to life children’s books. The huge factor is that these books have more then one character voices taking the roll of various characters within the book. It also will offer such E-Books, such as cookbooks and travel books (download recipes or follow a video to a distant land)

A user will make purchases and add to your virtual book shelf, much like the Apple iPad’s iBookstore app. Right now the Bilo only works on the PC platform, and will be integrated into the Toshiba Libretto W100 and all Toshiba Laptops and PC’s.

One has to wonder if Toshiba will stop at just offering a PC and Laptop experience for their new ebook store. In order for this venture to really succeed in the ebook competitive climate is if they offer Android, Smart Phones and an application for the iPad and iPhone.

You can stop by and check out the store right now, they just have a few teaser pages available, but this address will be the book store link when it is available.

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Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international events such as IFA, Computex, CES, Book Expo and a myriad of others. If you have any questions about any of his articles, please send Michael Kozlowski an email to michael@goodereader.com

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This looks impressive but I wonder of they are trying to be too big, trying to appeal to too many people and markets. I think the wave of the future (especially in ebooks) is to become more niche oriented–that way you can have greater control over your products and be more valuable as an adviser to your customers.
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It seems very appealing. This book place adds to the a number of options for customers to choose from in this category.
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ok I have a toshiba satellite C655 , it lists this toshiba bookself as a download for my laptop, but the text in the sample ebooks are not readable at all, either it’s bad format xps file type, also note normal free epub don’t work with this software at all, it can’t load the free epub files , I don’t no how many people know this, so all your free non-DRM epubs will not WORK or LOAD, it gives them a default bad file type message, the font, is not selectable , and it clear that windows even calibre looks better in text format than this software from them, it’s also clear its not using windows 7 which these computers come with, it does not seem to use cleartype fonts, or good size fonts, the printing on screen is just too small to read, overall I would stick with calibre or other ebook software, text to speech can be done easy anuff with other software too in ebooks , or converting the non-drm ones into text then read them in text to read software, it hurts your eyes just to try and read the text in toshiba bookself software
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Random Hint for DRM apple ebooks, I don’t like that DRM stuff which you can’t convert easy but it is possible DRM does nothing really since you can defeat even Apple ibook format with this method
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this whole DRM thing is dumb , all you got to do is take SD card pictures of every page in a book, either on the ipad or ipod touch, with the Nintendo DS i XL camera, you can defeat the DRM if you just take pictures, of each page you read, and then use the jpg images to build your DRM free epub book using calibre or something else, I think for now that the best crack or option, too use on these stupid people know make DRM books that you can’t convert between formats for your devices, just make a zip of all the pages, or some editing but then it would be DRM free with the use of Nintendo DSi XL camera , this would work for any DRM ebook
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another method would be a jailbroken ipod touch with the send screen to computer with using something like TightVNC, and using veenica app, jailbroken screen app which is in that type of software, and screen capture each page, but I think the DSi XL camera would be easer and safer for most people, that deslike or prefer drm-free ebooks Yep
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The direction everyone is moving towards electronic e-readers and ebook, soon enough we will find library become a thing of the past. I suppose the launch of the store line is a reflection of their commitment to link together two business areas, one the laptop and another the wide popularity of digital media. Both becoming a synergy.
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eBook store, forget it!
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Oh!…that’s great helpful, it’s so right to me! Million thanks for the article,
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One the laptop and another the wide popularity of digital media. Both becoming a synergy.
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I’ll post the same information to my blog, thanks for
ideas and great article.
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How to create blio format books?
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Very Nice, i think this will be better and more features than Pi & kindle
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