Announced first e-reader from Toshiba

Toshiba today announced its first e-reader sales will start in Japan in February. Simultaneously with the launch of the Toshiba will also launch an online store and books, in which there will be about 100 000 books.
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In Toshiba say that they can begin selling the reader and outside Japan, but has specific plans on this score.

Toshiba previously preferred to concentrate on internet tablets top price segment, such as released in January, a 10-inch Excite. But now the company state their desire to get to market more cost and niche e-solutions, as well as plans to launch its own online Bookstore BookPlace.

Tadahiro Nagashima, manager of business in the Tablet Toshiba Japan, said that by March 2016 the company intends to make your bookstore a standard place to buy books for 1.5 million customers. In addition to directly book, it also will be sold and specialized programs for reading the Android and Windows.

In Japan, the new reader will be called BookPlace and will sell for 22,000 yen or $ 280. The device is equipped with 8 gigabytes of internal memory, weigh 330 grams and work on the basis of its distribution Linux. The device will be equipped with a 7-inch color touch screen, and use WiFi to get new books.