{"id":182194,"date":"2010-01-14T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"12219 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-01-14T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:14:47","slug":"skiff-e-reader-software-shown-on-palm-pre-at-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182194","title":{"rendered":"Skiff e-Reader Software Shown on Palm Pre at CES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 506px; height: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Jonathan%20I%20Ezor\/2010\/01\/bg_skiff-service1.jpg\" alt=\"Skiff model\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Somewhat lost in the intense excitement of Palm&rsquo;s presentation at CES was a Pre-related demo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiff.com\/index.html\">Skiff<\/a>, the newly-formed Hearst spinoff which is teaming with Sprint to offer electronic versions not only of books but of newspapers, magazines and blogs. While Skiff is developing its own standalone e-ink <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiff.com\/skiff-reader.html\">Reader<\/a>, it is not limiting its service to the device. Instead, Skiff will offer its content for PCs, tablet devices and (most relevantly) smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Dan Costa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2357850,00.asp\">on PCMag.com<\/a>, Skiff was at CES last week, and demonstrated its reader for the first time, together with a prototype with color e-ink. It also, though, showed its software running on a Viliv tablet and a Palm Pre (a logical choice, given the company&rsquo;s partnership with Sprint). While the article (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/skiff-e-reader-hands-on-kindle-watch-out\/\">another piece<\/a> by Engadget) did not provide launch dates for the Pre software, nor discuss whether non-Sprint Pres would be able to run Skiff, it is good to see yet another content player focus on the Pre as a delivery mechanism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Q__kDgYzoWM:LavISlVFagY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Q__kDgYzoWM:LavISlVFagY:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Q__kDgYzoWM:LavISlVFagY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=Q__kDgYzoWM:LavISlVFagY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Q__kDgYzoWM:LavISlVFagY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/Q__kDgYzoWM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat lost in the intense excitement of Palm&rsquo;s presentation at CES was a Pre-related demo by Skiff, the newly-formed Hearst spinoff which is teaming with Sprint to offer electronic versions not only of books but of newspapers, magazines and blogs. While Skiff is developing its own standalone e-ink Reader, it is not limiting its service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}