{"id":154180,"date":"2010-01-08T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/08\/skiff-and-marvell-announce-skiff-reader-develop-kit-in-a-bid-to-rule-the-e-world\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:29:28","slug":"skiff-and-marvell-announce-skiff-reader-develop-kit-in-a-bid-to-rule-the-e-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/154180","title":{"rendered":"Skiff and Marvell announce Skiff Reader Develop Kit in a bid to rule the e-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strike><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/skiff-shot02_enlg-reader-230.jpg\" \/><\/strike>We&#8217;ve been hearing a lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/marvell\">Marvell<\/a> lately driven, in part, by the rapid growth in e-reader devices. Now it&#8217;s teamed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/08\/magazine-publishers-announce-joint-digital-distribution-scheme\/\">Hearst&#8217;s ambitious venture<\/a>, Skiff, to create the Skiff Reader Development Kit (RDK) designed to allow manufacturers to quickly create inexpensive reading devices using Marvell&#8217;s Armada System-on-a-chip with integrated electronic paper display controller. Naturally, the RDK includes built-in software support for the Skiff eReading service and digital storefront. Interesting, very interesting. It&#8217;s becoming clear that Skiff&#8217;s approach to toppling Amazon&#8217;s early e-reader \/ service juggernaut is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/skiff-e-reader-hands-on-kindle-watch-out\/\">flood the market with devices<\/a> hooked into a compelling value proposition for publishers and content owners and then ultimately (sometime later this year), consumers. Hold tight kids, this could be Apple (Amazon) vs. Microsoft (Skiff\/Hearst) all over again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/08\/skiff-and-marvell-announce-skiff-reader-develop-kit-in-a-bid-to\/\">Skiff and Marvell announce Skiff Reader Develop Kit in a bid to rule the e-world<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:23:00 EST.  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Now it&#8217;s teamed up with Hearst&#8217;s ambitious venture, Skiff, to create the Skiff Reader Development Kit (RDK) designed to allow manufacturers to quickly create inexpensive reading devices using Marvell&#8217;s Armada System-on-a-chip with integrated electronic paper display controller. 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