STAReBOOK officially launched: E Ink machine billed as ‘thinnest & lightest ebook reader’

The STAReBook machine from eRead has a six-inch E Ink screen, SD card capacity up to a gig, MP3 capacity and dimensions of 188mm(L) × 118mm(W) × 8mm(H). Weight is 176g, including the battery. The STAReBook, in fact, is billed as the planet’s “thinnest and lightest ebook reader.”

Some weeks ago MobileRead reported a price of $440. That’s $90 more than the Sony Reader. Among the marketing partners is a Chinese eBay. Anything of significance? Isn’t the main eBay being discussed as an outlet for sales of the OLPC laptop to Americans, eventually?

Another interesting product is eRead’s interactive reading platform, which “finely integrates the functions such as chat, video, voice, file transmission, reading and others and provides you impressive make-friends fun while reading.” Hey, that’s a cleaned-up version of the quote. I wonder if the software offers or will offer shared annotations–dotReader and Sophie territory: reading as a social experience.