Supermarket chain Aldi will be releasing a new e-reader on June 18th in Belgium. This product was designed to be an entry level device and will retail for €79,99.
Not much is known about the specs right now, other than it will be six inches and have an e-Ink touchscreen. It will have 4 GB of internal memory and an SD card so you can expand it up to 32 GB. It has Wireless internet and the ability to read in the dark via the front-lit display.
Aldi has been releasing e-readers since 2012 and their entire line of products are meant to be impulse purchases when grocery shopping.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
