What is the Cluster21 eBook pack?

The Cluster21 eBook pack is a pack including 24 books (in French) to understand and participate to the Digital Era and one Cybook, an electronic book, a portable device that lets you read as you do on paper everywhere you go.

Now you can bring your entire bookshelf with you, including your own documents… on a device as small and light as a paperback. The Cybook is perfectly readable in a wide range of lighting conditions, including direct sunlight.

What does the Cybook look like?

The Cybook simply looks stunning with its frosty black finish and its navigation pad on its front side.

With the size of a paperback, the thickness of a magazine and a weight of a mobile phone, the Cybook is truly mobile and can be easily arranged in a hand bag. The Cybook design is definitely beautiful and stylish.

Easy on the eyes?

The Cybook screen possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance. Like a sheet of paper, it can be viewed from nearly any angle, doesn't show any flicker effect and has a high resolution. When you read, you have no eyestrain and it definitely gives you the experience of reading from paper.

How long does the Cybook battery last?

As long as the Cybook E Ink® screen displays the same page, there is no power consumption. This technology drastically reduces power needs. Thus, the Cybook offers an impressive battery lifetime of 8,000 page flips on a full charged battery. It corresponds to a two (2) month battery lifetime for an average reading pace of 80 pages per day.

What can I read?

Almost any digital documents. The Cybook supports many open formats like HTML, Txt, PRC, PalmDoc and PDF. These formats are commonly found on Internet and can be easily generated by many text editors. All these files support font resizing except PDF files which can be zoomed.

Where can I buy contemporary titles?

The Cybook supports the Mobipocket^TM secured eBook format. This encrypted format enables the Cybook user to get access to one of the biggest catalogue of contemporary copyrighted titles with publishers like Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster or Harlequin.

You will find more than 200 eBook retailers on the web which propose Mobipocket ^TM files.

How many books can I carry?

The 64 MB Cybook internal memory can contain several tens of books. You can also extend your storage capacity with SD cards storing several thousands of digital documents.

How can I add new files to my Cybook?

Connect the Cybook with the USB cable to any host computer and drag and drop your files. That's it, your new content is in the Cybook, ready to be displayed.

No software installation, no synchronization process, no file conversion and most of all the Cybook is compatible with any kind of host computer (Windows®, Linux, Mac®).

What else?

The Cybook can display many image types like JPEG, GIF and PNG. These images are automatically resized and displayed as on a digital frame device.

The Cybook can also play MP3 files along with the reading of a book.

The Cluster21 eBook pack is a complete bookshelf (all books are in french) dedicated to numeric reading bundled with the Cybook reader. The Cybook screen acts like a paper page made of tiny ink particles which can migrate and modify the layout of your screen in a second.

Read books

With the Cybook, you can access more than 55,000 digital contemporary books from hundreds of publisher sources like Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Harlequin…. These digital books are in Mobipocket^TM format, the available catalogue grows very quickly and gain several hundreds titles per month.

The digital book version is most of the time 20 to 30% less expensive than its paper counterpart and more than 200 digital book stores propose Mobipocket^TM digital books.

Read documents

The Cybook can read different kind of digital documents like classical books in HTML or TXT, user's manual in PDF…

Cybook supports all these document formats directly and without any conversion. To transfer your documents to the Cybook, you just need to connect your Cybook with your USB cable and copy your data in the Cybook memory. You can also use a SD card and copy your data in it.

Read news

The Cybook offers the possibility to download and read RSS feeds and online information from famous websites, using Mobipocket^TM eNews software.

Display photos

The Cybook can act as a digital frame to display photos and pictures in JPEG, GIF or PNG formats. These images are automatically resized, converted to grey levels and dithered offering an impressive rendering quality.

Play music

The Cybook can also act as a MP3 player. Thanks to its stereo headphones connection, you can listen to your favorite music along your reading.

Specifications of the Cybook Gen3.

Size	4.7" x 7.4" x 0.3" 118 x 188 x 8.5 mm
Weight	6.13 ounces -174 g (battery included)
Screen	6" E Ink® screen [4.8"x3.6"- 122mmx91mm] 600x800 pixels, 166 dpi B&W, 4 grayscale Daylight readable No backlight Portrait and landscape mode
Sound	2.5mm stereo headphone plug
Controls	11 buttons (No touchscreen)
Battery	Rechargeable built-in Li-Polymer battery (1000 mAh) 8,000 page flips battery life
Processor	200MHz
ROM memory	8 MB
RAM memory	16 MB
Storage memory	64 MB Data Flash
Formats	HTML, Txt, PRC, PalmDoc, PDF Secured MobipocketTM
Connectivity	USB Client (v2.0) - Mini USB B connector SD Card slot

What's in the Box?
The box of the Cluster21 eBook pack contains everything you need to get started! Included in the box:

• the Cybook eBook reading device (12 months guarantee)
• USB cable
• Quick start guide

Please note that all the books proposed in the Cluster21 ebook Pack are ONLY IN FRENCH.
The books (in French only) are must have to surf the Metamorphoses of the 21st century. Included in this Cluster21 eBook pack are*: 24 books from M21 Editions in three collections:

Internet and new tech usages…

• Blogs from Benoît Desavoye
• Gutenberg 2.0 from Lorenzo Soccavo
• Socia Networks from Alain Lefebvre
• Everyday Technologies from Fanny Bouton
• Wikis from Jérôme Delacroix

New management pratices

• Googling for greatness, 12 contrarian management pratices shapping the 21st century from Bernard Girard
• Participation Generation from Thierry Maillet
• Collective Intelligence Management from Olivier Zara
• RSS, Blogs from Jean-Claude Morand

Prospective

• Smart Mobs from Howard Rheingold
• Humanity 2.0 from Ray Kurzweil
• 2010 Virtual Future from Malo Girod de l'Ain
• Darknet from J.D Lasica
• The Coming Age of Knowledge from Marc Halevy

5 books by FING (Fondation Internet New Generation)

• Internet, book 1 : tomorrow’s technologies from Jean-Michel Cornu
• Internet, book 2 : tomorrow’s services and usages from Jean-Michel Cornu
• Electronic school binders – student, teacher and their binders in tomorrow’s school, directed by Daniel Kaplan
• Mobilités.net – Cities, transports, technologies and new mobilities, directed by Daniel Kaplan and Hubert Lafont
• Musique and digital, innovation option : collective white paper initiated by FING, helped by Adami and Spedidam.

2 Laser Research Books on stakes emerging from interactions between technology, commerce and society

• The revolution in 2010? Real stakes from 2007, collective book
• Monsters and wonders of modernity, collective book

Latest study from Club Sénat on new opinion shaping medias

• New opinion shaping medias: books, press and audiovisual medias at the time of networks.

1 report from Silicon Sentier, the parisian Start-Ups association

• Innovation report from Silicon Sentier

Bonus

• One yearly subscription to the monthly newsletter on epaper : NouvoLivrActu, book, publishing, presse at the digital era: e-ink, e-paper, e-book, Second Life…
• One science fiction book published by M21 Editions : Lost in time from Alain Lefebvre
• Different books and extracts around those themes…

Beyond those books, each user can add its own documents, buy books online and benefit from future M21 Editions offers in order to enrich its own Very Large Personal Library.

After the purchase of the Cluster21 eBook pack and before the delivery, a mail is sent with the link to download the books, install them on your PC or Mac using the Mobipocket software to read them on your PC (no Mac version yet to read the books) or on your PDA. At the first connection of your Cybook reader , the books will automatically be transferred on it. (manual copy for Mac users).

* The content of the Cluster21 eBook pack might evolve depending on available books…