Foyles to retail new e-book reader

17.12.09 Graeme Neill in The Bookseller

London independent Foyles has begun selling the paperback sized Cybook Opus e-book reader. The device went on sale in stores Wednesday]and is priced £199.

More than 1,000 e-books can be stored on the 1GB memory. Owners can read titles in either portrait or landscape view. The device weighs just over five ounces.

The independent also sells the BeBook Mini at £159 as well as the Sony Touch device. More than 60,000 titles are available from Foyles' e-book store.