Publishing giant Hearst is set to enter the e-reader market in 2010 and will team up with Sprint to offer an e-reading service platform for mobile devices, smartphones and netbooks. The platform, called Skiff, will provide magazine and newspaper content with “high resolution graphics, rich typography and dynamic updates.” Sprint will offer Skiff powered products more »

Hearst Corporation, the publisher of popular magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and Popular Mechanics, has announced it has plans to roll out its own e-reader by the end of the year. Like the popular Kindle, it will be an e-ink device, but with a larger screen more suited to displaying newspapers and magazines, will be black and white (but will be upgraded to color later) and may be flexible and even foldable. Content will be delivered wirelessly.