Toshiba Book Place full-color e-book store is powered by Blio, launches soon (video)

And here we go, an honest to goodness book store built around Ray Kurzweil‘s Blio e-reader software. It’s been a long time coming and still it’s only a teaser page, but Toshiba is promising to unleash its Book Place store “in the coming weeks” stocked with “thousands” of full-color e-books. The Blio software, you might remember from our video hands-on, offers a fully interactive reading experience rich in multimedia capabilities and should run beautifully on oh, say, Toshiba’s new dual-screen Libretto W100. Man, when did Toshiba suddenly become interesting? See it in a cheesy, promotional packaging rager (that hints at an iOS app at the 2.42 mark) after the break.

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