Toshiba adds 6-inch BookPlace Mono to its Japan e-reader lineup

While Toshiba's currently acquired a bevy of e-viewers on tap for its Japanese on-line e-e-book keep, it just added a price range-oriented monochrome offering: the BookPlace Mono. It truly is a a bit smaller but or else identical searching version of its BookPlace DB50 reader, carrying a six-inch E Ink monitor with 758 x 1,024 pixels, along with an 800MHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, WiFi, 4GB internal capodimonte porcelain combines results in canyon memory, a Micro SD slot and a USB port. In accordance to Japanese e-book site ITMedia, nine,800 yen ($one hundred) receives you the reader in addition a established of guides, with the price climbing to 13,500 yen ($one hundred fift y) soon after that. Changes to Toshiba's BookPlace e-book keep indicate purchasers there will have to traipse in excess of to a single of a network of bookstores to grab it, however -- possibly by sneaker or mouse, we presume.