Looks like the ASUS DR-950, the company’s newest 9-inch E Ink, touchscreen reading device will be arriving in April. ASUS has confirmed that it’s currently looking for content partners, but plans to have the e-reader in consumer’s hands by spring.

The price will be about £250 (or $354). We like it, with it’s 2 or 4GB or internal storage, Wi-Fi and 3G. But we are more excited about the OLED color DR-570 which is coming soon.

According to The Wall Street Journal, publishing company HarperCollins is in talks with Apple about bringing e-books to Apple’s rumored tablet. You know, the one that’s expected to be the focus of its January 27th event. That tablet.

Apparently other publishing companies have been in talks with Apple as well. Sure, e-book readers are what it’s all about at the moment, but soon after it will be all about being integrated into slates. It’s still unconfirmed and just a rumor, but this one makes logical sense and gels with what we’ve been hearing.

Well, this one came from out of nowhere. We haven’t heard much from ASUS in the e-reader market, but according to Times Online’s InGear it’s building a 6-inch color OLED e-reader, which is currently dubbed the DR-570.

The device will play Flash video, has both WiFi and 3G, and if you believe it can last for 122 hours on a single charge under “real world conditions.” Which makes it sound like even they don’t quite believe it. The device should be released by the end of the year.

Samsung on Wednesday demonstrated the E6 e-book reader. The 6-inch device features a wireless connection, likely Wi-Fi, to share and get your content and it also has a handwriting feature so users can doodle away. The first partner to provide content for the device will be Google, which has digitized many many popular and classic books.

The E6 should be able to compete well with Amazon’s Kindle, not to mention all of the others out there. The E6 will ship at some point later this year for $399.

According to Spring Design, the dual-screen Alex e-reader will be shipping around the end of next month. February 22 in fact. The price however is a surprise. At $399, it’s about $150 higher than the Nook.

And it’s very similar to the Nook. How many users will be willing to pay that? You tell us. to refresh your memory, it sports a 6-inch display using monochrome e-ink (not color), but it also has a secondary 3.5-inch color touchscreen that lets you browse the Web.

We already knew about Interead’s COOL-ER 3G e-book reader, but now they are announcing a new WiFi-equipped COOL-ER Connect model. Details are in short supply, but the reader will apparently have a touchscreen and weigh only 5.8 ounces.

Look for it to be available this Spring. The COOL-ER 3G is scheduled for mid-2010. Interead has also announced a new line of content for its e-book readers. Like the Coolermatic application for instance, which will let users access over 1,400 newspapers and “select websites,”. Twitter feeds as well, but with no posting.

E-book readers are everywhere. So much so that they will surely survive any apocalypse, which at least gives the surviving cockroaches something to pass their time with. Dulin Books has announced that they will be shipping their own e-book reader, the Boox 60 very soon.

The device will come equipped with built-in Wi-Fi and a WebKit-based browser, which will handle news, blogs and other wiki sites along with the ability to download other content. It packs a 6″ Vizplex display with touchscreen capability, and a 532MHz processor with 512MB of internal memory(Which can be expanded with a microSDHC memory card).

The COOL-ER e-reader has good looks and a decent price point, so you gotta love it. On the other hand, it lacks WiFi, which we don’t love. No one wants to use a USB cable or an SD card with this device. Luckily for all of us Interead has some changes in store for next year.

Like WiFi and deals with AT&T as well as NewspaperDirect which will grant access to over 1,300 newspapers and magazines. Now that sounds more like it.

We adults have the Kindle and the Nook, along with other e-readers. But what about the kids? It’s the kids who we want to get reading. Nokia is at least thinking about the children.

The Storyplay e-reader is a new take on storytelling and reading. It will feature Elmo from Sesame Street on a removable paper book that’s attached with magnets. The reader has two screens. One will display Elmo and his antics, while the second screen will display a live video screen. (Displaying what?)

Back in April we heard that Bridgestone was getting into the e-paper biz and it looks like they are still making progress. The company’s all-color touchscreen e-book reader is based on what Bridgestone calls Quick-response Liquid Powder and is about 5.8mm thick.

It features a 13.1-inch touch-sensitive e-paper display with 4,096 colors that has a refresh rate of about 0.8 seconds. It also boasts mobile phone connectivity. The biggest news here is that the entire thing is designed to bend. Everything from the circuit board, touchscreen, and housing.

We’ve been waiting for more info about Barnes and Noble’s new color e-book reader and it looks like we have some. According to the Wall Street Journal, they’ve seen an upcoming ad for Barnes & Noble’s e-book reader.

It’s called the Nook. And according to the article, you can expect it to be out on Tuesday, when it will retail for $259. Interestingly, the device will let users “lend e-books to friends.” That last bit is intriguing. More tomorrow.

IREX is introducing its DR800SG e-reader. It may look like the Kindle, but it isn’t. The screen measures 8.1 inches diagonal and the controls are a stylus/touchscreen combo along with a control bar on the side that works sort of like a joystick. Also, the IREX renders newspapers with page layout intact, allowing readers to zoom in on articles.

The device has an always-on 3G connection via Verizon (Don’t worry. No subscription fees). The company has also partnered with Barnes & Noble for their e-book store, selling most new books at $9.99. No PC is required, but the syncing software is Windows only. The DR800SG should be available at Best Buy stores in October for $399.

We first told you about Bookeen’s Cybus ebook reader back in may. Then it was briefly spotted in July. After that nothing. So we figured they gave up on their expensive e-book with no Wi-Fi.

Well, it’s back and now shipping. For the price, at least it looks different than other readers. The E-ink ebook reader weighs just 5.3oz and features a 5″ display, 12 font sizes, 4-level greyscale and 200 dpi and the built in accelerometer lets you auto change from portrait to landscape mode.

You may have noticed that e-book readers are starting to catch on. If this is news to you, you probably don’t own a Kindle. And since reading e-books is all the rage, we should see more manufacturers jump on board in due time.

iriver Japan (not iRiver from Korea) hopes to join in on the reindeer games by releasing their own e-book reader. Their offering looks more ike a rebadged version of the Netronix reader which was released last year. Apparently the iriver Japan device will be capable of handling PDF documents, have a simple joystick control interface, an SD memory card slot and audio file playback.

These kinds of displays are developing rapidly and it wont be long at all before we are reading from electronic newspapers “printed” on a foldable display screen, similar to the Philips-LG newspaper above. Recently, media giant Hearst Corp, has been funding a start up called FirstPaper to develop the e-newspaper.

It uses a color display version of E-Ink that is being used in the Sony E-reader. The e-reader uses Linux as its operating system which might enable it hit the commercial market at a price that isn’t through the roof. If they can integrate the wireless capability to download newspapers and let users flip pages at a touch, paper newspapers could soon be history, which is good for the environment. But for now, we’ll just have to wait.