Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble have announced that the QUE™ (pronounced “Q”) proReader, especially designed for business professionals, will be sold through Barnes & Noble’s stores and also online at Barnes & Noble.com.
“We are very excited to name Barnes & Noble as our first retail distribution partner and to have QUE featured prominently in its stores,” said Richard Archuleta, CEO of Plastic Logic. “QUE was designed from the ground up as a tool for busy business professionals, expanding the eReader market as its first and only proReader.”
The QUE will provide access to over a million eBooks through its QUE store, and will provide access to “a file cabinet’s worth of documents,” including newspapers and periodicals. It will support document formats that business professionals use most, including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel documents and many more.
The QUE’s size will differ significantly from most other eReaders, at approximately the size of a sheet of paper. And, the QUE is only one third of an inch thin, with a shatterproof plastic display, touchscreen, and powerful features to manage your content.
“We’re excited to expand our relationship with Plastic Logic to include not only an eBookstore, but also a physical presence in our bookstores nationwide and on BN.com,” said William J. Lynch, president of BN.com. “QUE is an incredibly innovative product and a great device for business professionals. Carrying nook and QUE allows us to provide consumers a one-stop destination in Barnes & Noble stores to demo and buy two of the best eBook readers on the market. It also supports our digital strategy to offer customers choice, expand the market overall, and deliver on our promise to provide any book, any time, anywhere.”
Full product specifications, availability and pricing of QUE will be available January 7, 2010, and we can’t wait!
