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IREX participating at Fortune Conference
Today, at the annual Fortune Brainstorm: Tech conference, Fortune Magazine’s annual gathering of the world’s top technology and media innovators, IREX Technologies’ North American CEO, Kevin Hamilton, will be participating in a panel to discuss how new devices will circumvent “free,” browser-based content and explore new revenue opportunities to revive the beleaguered media and publishing industries.
In this first IREX podcast, we discuss Kevin’s participation in the panel and IREX’s plan for the e-reader space.
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iRex & NRC nominated for the Accenture Innovation Awards
Earlier this year iRex and NRC Handelsblad My Cousin Vinny download launched the first e-paper in the Netherlands and the Jury of the Media & Communication Innovation Awards have nominated iRex and NRC Handelsblad for the ‘Blue Tulip’ award.
The ‘Blue Tulip’ award is the price for the ‘Best Innovation Concept’ in Media and Communication, and it is the second time that Accenture organizes this event.
During the Innovation Seminar on 23 October the jury will announce the winner of the Blue Tulip. Until that time everybody can vote on what they believe to be the best innovation concept in media and communication.
We believe that the cooperation between NRC Handelsblad and iRex Technologies to publish the first e-paper in the Netherlands is a true showcase in innovation of news media, so we certainly hope we can count on your vote.
1 commentIntroducing iLiad Book Edition
Today we have announced the iLiad Book Edition, a lower priced and simplified version of the earlier iLiad. Unlike the iLiad, the Book Edition has no WiFi capability but is otherwise similar to the original iLiad. The Book Edition is priced at 499,- EUR and comes with 50 pre-loaded free eBooks hellboy ii the golden army download free Special Dead movie full death sentence dvdrip download Uncle Buck dvd
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With the Book Edition we aim to offer the book lover all the good for less.
The official press release can be downloaded here and high resolution pictures can be found here
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Update: I noticed many blogs convert the Euro price incorrectly to the US Dollar price. The Euro price includes VAT which is not applicable for US customers. The retail prices for the Book Edition in the different currencies are: 399,- GBP, 499,- Euro and 599,- USD.
16 commentsNRC Handelsblad e-Cake
Yesterday NRC Handelsblad
started with publishing a daily newspaper for electronic paper, the NRC Handelsblad ePaper, and is herewith the first Dutch newspaper on electronic paper. Here at iRex we are of course very proud and excited to make this important step in the Netherlands with NRC Handelsblad and to celebrate we had some cake, thanks to NRC Handelsblad for providing the delicious e-Cake Rent move !

The iRex Team
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Q&A with Teleread and iLiad Dutch Television
It has been a bit quiet on the i-to-i blog recently but this will certainly change considering all the interesting developments and activities that you can expect to see from us in 2008.
For those who might have missed it, on the Teleread
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blog you can find a short Q&A, where I address some of the questions from David Rothman in regard to the iLiad and future developments. Make sure to check it out here.
A few weeks ago we had a visit from the Dutch television for the program ‘In de ban van het ding
‘. This weekend the third episode covered the iLiad as well as the Kindle.
No commentsSelexyz and iRex team up to promote e-books and iLiad
The Dutch bookstore chain, Selexyz will start with the sales of e-books and the iLiad from November onward. The iLiad will be on display and for sale at the Selexyz bookstores in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. As a promotion the first iLiads will be provided with an e-book edition of Max Westermans new book ‘In alle staten‘.
On Selexyz.nl are currently more than 100 free e-books available for download, in near future this will be extended with the commercial titles also available at the stores.
**Update**
The Dutch NOS Journal made a short report last night on the iLiad. You can view it here
(skip to 06:38).
2 commentsiRex on the Book Fair
Yesterday was the first day on the Frankfurt Book Fair and there was quite some interest in digital reading by the media this year. We even made it into the ZDF 19.00 Heute. You can watch the fragment here.
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The Frankfurt Book Fair will take place from 10 to 14 October this year and it is considered to be the meeting place for everybody who is anybody in the industry and will be host to authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, art dealers, illustrators, agents, journalists and of course readers.
iRex Technologies will be attending the fair and you can find us at the digital market place in Hall 4.2 Stand J 442. I will also be present at the fair and if you are interested to have a chat with us or have a look at the iLiad and hear about latest developments than we are more than happy to welcome you there.
Regarding Henry full For those not coming to the fair, I will cover the highlights of the fair here on the i-to-i blog. One of the things I am certainly gonna check out is a presentation from Amazon: The Future of Books: digital text at Amazon. During which Genevieve Kunst, the Head of Business development for Digital Media will introduce Amazon’s current digital offerings and latest developments.
With the recent events
that seem to indicate that the launch of the Kindle is imminent, will this be the event where they will unveil the Kindle?
5 commentsJoining the Conversation
Over a year we have been listening carefully to our customers and the community and in this period we have learned many things which have allowed us to improve our products and services.
Today we continue these efforts by joining the conversation. This blog is intended to be a timely and accessible alternative to more formal channels of communication. We intend it to be a place where we can share our comments, ideas and insights in an informal way and have a productive and candid dialog. We will continue to listen, as well as engage in a two-way communication.
In the coming days and weeks you can expect to see more information appear on this blog, in the meantime make sure to check out our doctrine here Crazy Eights movies Demon Hunter release and let us know what you think of the i-to-i blog.
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