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Jul112011

iriver Story HD

iriver released the Story HD, the world's first e-reader completely integrated with Google Books.

The iriver Story HD, which retails for $139.99, is slim and lightweight with a high-resolution e-ink screen and a QWERTY keyboard for easy searching. It includes over-the-air access to hundreds of thousands of Google eBooks for sale and more than 3 million for free. With the Story HD you can now browse, buy and read Google eBooks with your e-reader through Wi-Fi, rather than downloading and transferring them from computer to e-reader with a cord as you can already do with more than 80 compatible devices.

Interesting, but in a world full of smartphones and tablets with ebook apps and/or browsers that can already view Google Books, not to mention the already popular Kindle and Nook e-readers, I have difficulty imagining this product taking off.

Update: It would appear that Marco Arment feels the same way.

Google Blog | The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD