iRiver Story

The Korean firm iRiver is planning to launch a new e-book reader known as the Story. The iRiver Story packs a 6-inch display and a QWERTY keyboard. Memory storage comes with 2GB and a SD card. Common features include a 3.5mm headphone jack and folding case, and two free book downloads. The iRiver Story supports TXT, PDF, EPUB, and DOC, XLS, PPT Office files, PDF and EPUB documents of DRM contents, JPG, BMP, GIF image formats, as well as MP3, WMA and OGG music formats.

There is no word on the availability in US. But the iRiver Story will soon hit the Korean market with a pre-order price tag of 358,000 KRW (about $290).