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eReaders were the most popular item this Christmas, so it’s not surprising that more and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon.  But DMC Worldwide more-or-less jumps in front of the bandwagon with its Copia announcement.  They are announcing eReaders like HP was announcing laptops yesterday. Most companies only have one basic-styled model with various small detailed upgrades. Copia includes six eReaders plus a social network/e-booking store hybrid to compliment them. The store will be in private beta starting this month and going until the open beta begins in March.

But enough about another social networking site, lets check out these readers. We’ll just go from left to right, starting with the Ocean 9.

• The 9 in the name stands for the 9-inch ePaper (which they all have just in different sizes by the way) 768 x 1024 pixel display.  It is about 8 x 6.5 x .5-inches so it’ll fit nicely in your hands. Inside it has a 4-directional tilt-sensor, 802.11 b/g wireless, 4GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, and a earphone and microphone jack.
• Next comes the Ocean 9 3G. Nothing different about this one when compared to the 9 except it has 3G capabilities as the name states.
• Following that is the Ocean 6. The Ocean 6 is just a 6-inch version of the Ocean 9 with a 600 x 800 pixel display. The whole device is about 6.7 x 5 x .5 -inches.
• Down we go to the second series of readers, the Tidal series. First up is the Tidal. This is the only one that doesn’t have a capacitive touchscreen. Instead it has a full QWERTY keyboard. Other than being a few mm thinner, it has nearly the same dimensions as the Ocean 6 along with a 6-inch display as well. The tidal also comes with only 2GB of internal memory, and the microSD card slot is absent so not much opportunity to expand.  It also lacks wireless capabilities.
• Back to touchscreens, we have the Tidal Touch. It is nearly identical in specs to the Ocean 9 except is has a smaller screen size and resolution (6-inch 600 x 800 pixels). It also brings back the wireless capabilites, 4GB internal storage, microSD card slot, everything the other models have.
• Doing the same thing we did with the Ocean 9’s, we have the Tidal Touch 3G. It has all the same features of the Tidal Touch plus 3G capabilities

So I really thing this is the first company that is starting to produce eReaders like computers with different models and such. So I expect to see more news like this in the coming week.

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