Will Foxit’s eSlick Be Barnes & Noble’s Kindle Competitor?
Caution! Rumor and speculation ahead! Yup, this is just my inquiring mind at work here, but I think we’ll see a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle from Barnes & Noble within the next three months. The groundwork is there, but not everything is in order just yet. Here’s my thought process: • Barnes & Noble recently purchased Fictionwise. The nearly 9-year-old company sells e-book content in multiple formats and owns the eReader platform that’s used to read content on computers and handhelds. • Foxit’s $259 eSlick device uses e-Ink, similar to Amazon’s Kindle, but doesn’t support content from the Amazon store. Previous rumors, however, indicate that Foxit will be adding support for the eReader format. That development recently appeared again over at MobileRead: The eSlick forums indicate that eReader support is coming in the next firmware upgrade, which is due out in June. Obviously, this is all predicated on if and when Foxit adds eReader support to their device. If they do, this scenario ma
