US Esquire is going to have a battery-powered cover made by E-Ink, tghe company behind Kindle. “This is really the 1.0 version,” Kevin O’Malley, Esquire’s publisher tells the NYT. “Imagine when the consumer walks by a newsstand and sees that it

"For all the talk of digital innovation, … the picture in the UK publishing industry still feels like one that is failing to get anywhere new very quickly …"

"The Readius will be introduced in England, Italy and Germany this fall, and in the United States early in 2009… The price is not yet set, but … Readius would be more expensive than the Kindle, which now is selling for $359."

"Amazon has come closer to creating the newspaper of the future than any newspaper company." (shame about the shocking apostrophe in the headline)

Review of the Amazon Kindle: "Print devotees will likely find Amazon’s newfangled e-reader an imperfect substitute for the old-fashioned newspaper—even if it saves trees."

Guardina editor Alan Rusbridger on the Amazon Kindle: "I don’t think the Kindle is quite the iPod moment for newspapers, but even so, it is pretty cute." Guardian not "yet" available on Kindle.

"the Readius will operate almost worldwide, as it works with the HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3G (third-generation) service favored by European, Asian and some U.S. operators."

Charles Arthur: "I know that we keep hearing that "content is king". But … t it won’t be the content creators who’ll have the chokehold; it’ll be the controllers of the distribution channels. In other words, distribution, not content, is king."

"[T]echnology won’t save us. If we can’t succeed on the web, we certainly won’t be able to succeed with the Kindle or e-ink, because each of those new technologies will bring their own challenges to the traditional way of doing things. "

"Russell Baker from Amazon … was tight-lipped about when the device is likely to go on sale in the UK but suggested that it would come here eventually - unlike the Sony Reader."