Despite finding out that Best Buy was going to begin shipping the iREX DR 800SG ereader back in September of last year and expecting it to begin shipping as of October — it is just now available. I guess this falls into the better late than never category. But those waiting for the iREX DR more »

The idea behind ebook readers is to create less clutter and keep your bag light while still being able to read lots of books. Best Buy will be selling the $399 iRex DR800SG that has Verizon 3G access in October 2009. The device has an 8.1-inch touch screen and should get a lot of exposure more »

First up in the latest ebook news is the IREX eReader who have recently announced that they are planning to launch an 8.1-inch touchscreen reader sometime later in the year. The good news here is that the IREX eReader will have support from Barnes & Noble in the form of more than 750,000 books at more »

iRex has announced new ebook readers that could potentially steal the spotlight from the now-old Amazon Kindle. iRex has announced three such readers, each of them with a 10.2″ e-ink display. The differences between the models are the two Digital Reader 1000S and Digital Reader 1000SW ones have touch screens with styli, and the 1000SW more »

iRex has just announced a new and soon-to-be-available e-book reader, the iLiad Book Edition and with it comes some unique features. The iLiad notably offers an 8.1-inch XGA touchscreen-capable display. Other features include 256MB of flash memory, a 3.5mm output, USB connectivity, support for MMC and CF memory cards and the ability to read Mobipocket, PDF, HTML, TXT, JPG, BMP, and PNG files. The iLiad is powered by a 400MHz XScale CPU with 64MB of RAM.

The iLiad Book Edition is scheduled to go on sale Friday May 9 and retail for €499 (about $770 US), but will only be available in the European market.