Indian e-commerce company Infibeam.com has launched an eBook reader called 'Pi', and started taking pre-orders for the product on its website at Rs 999. The eBook reader is priced at Rs 9999.00 and shipping will start on February 22, 2010. Infibeam's CEO Vishal Mehta told MediaNama, "such a device is a win win situation for all including authors, publishers and readers". Kindle Versus Pi The product at a first glance looks very similar to Amazon's Kindle minus the keyboard, so much so that it might well be mistaken for a rip-off. "It is primarily because the screen is by E Ink and this is the best technology available for a e-reader. Other attributes that a device like this needs is to be light weight and thin," is Mehta's explanation. Infibeam's Pi (Left) and Amazon's Kindle (Right) Online E-Books Infibeam, like Amazon, also has an online e-book store and claims it has 100,000 books on offer. Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and books by Indian authors Arundhati Roy and Chetan Bhagat's books are on sale on the site. According to the website, 454 Amar Chitra Katha books are also available. Specifications, Keyboard, Sudoku, Music Pi has a 6" E Ink display, is 10 mm thick and weighs 180 gm. The 8 level gray scale display has no backlight, which might make an e-book difficult to read in the dark. It comes with an internal memory of 512 MB compared to Kindle's 2 GB but this is expandable upto 4 GB via…
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