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The Cybook ebook Reading Device Goes Wireless for Free During Holidays.


PARIS -- For New Year Holidays, Bookeen Offers a Wireless LAN Compact Flash Card with Every Cybook Bought on Its Online Shop (Www.Bookeen.Com)

The Cybook ebook reading device has been designed to provide the best e-reading experience. Now, it also gives you access to your favorite broadband wireless Internet services.

Thanks to its 800x600 color display (either in portrait or landscape mode) and its embedded Internet Explorer application, you will be able to browse your favorite web sites, seated comfortably in your couch or while on the go. You will not need anymore to be at your desk to read and answer your emails. You will even be able to access all your ebook files stored in the hard disk of your computer. This last feature will virtually unbound the storage capacity of the Cybook.

"The user will really enjoy the Cybook as a very easy tool to browse the Internet. The Cybook switches on instantaneously and Internet access is available in less than 20 seconds." explains Michael Dahan, co-founder of Bookeen.

The Cybook is the only electronic book See e-book. which supports several e-book (Electronic-BOOK) A handheld device that is specialized for displaying electronic versions of books. Like its printed counterpart, an e-book lets you set bookmarks and annotate in the margins.


The Rocket eBook
The Rocket eBook was one of the first handheld devices created for reading an electronic book. Note the convenient scroll buttons on the left side.
 formats (PRC, PDB, HTML, RTF RTF - Rich Text Format
RTF - Radar Terrain Following
RTF - Radio Television Film
RTF - Radio Télévison Française
RTF - Radiotelephone
RTF - Rag-Tag Fleet (sci-fi, Battlestar Galactica)
RTF - Read The Form
RTF - Ready to Feed (baby formula)
RTF - Ready to Fight (band)
RTF - Ready To Fire
RTF - Ready To Fly (prebuilt R/C planes)
RTF - Ready Training Folder
RTF - Realignment Task Force
RTF - Recovery Task Force
RTF - Reduce to Fit (Kinko's)
 and TXT) allowing both copyrighted and personal digital content. The Cybook gives access to more than 21 000 copyrighted ebooks and hundreds of thousands of free digital documents all over the web.

Laurent Picard, co-founder of Bookeen, said, "The wireless feature is our gift to all our future customers for holidays. In fact, they will not browse the Internet, they will read it like a book!"

Based in Paris (France), Bookeen is a most innovative company providing both a unique multi-format ebook reading device and a huge ebook store proposing more than 21 000 copyrighted ebooks for all PDAs (www.ubibooks.com).

For more information, visit the sites http://www.bookeen.com and http://www.ubibooks.com.
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