Inbound from South Korea - LG and iRiver Partner on an eReader for the American Market

The American version of the iRiver "Story" will supposedly be on sale in about a year. The current Story - distributed in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, China and Russia - is a fairly robust device with a price just under $300. The dedicated eReader can handle all essential eBook formats, runs Linux (despite some blog posts and press reports to the contrary), and features a 6 inch E-ink screen. It will be interesting to see what design changes happen, since iRiver and LG must realize they'll have to up the specs (and lower the price) considerably in order to even have a chance against Kindle, Nook etc. The ghost of iRex is watching. Read more in the Wall Street Journal's "Digits" blog. Note that the Journal gets the Story's operating system wrong, claiming it runs Windows. It doesn't.