Sony has just started taking pre-orders for the upcoming Reader Daily Edition. Labeled with price of $399.99, this new e-Book reader is equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen E-Ink monitor (displayable in portrait or landscape mode), an integrated 3G wireless connection letting it to access Sony’s online e-Book store from practically anywhere, a virtual keyboard, a built-in dictionary, an internal memory that can hold more than one thousand standard e-Books, a microSD card slot and supports for PDF, TXT, Word, BBeB, ePub and other text formats. The Sony Reader Daily Edition will start shipping next month.

BenQ comes back to the e-Book market by introducing the nReader K60 e-Book reader. Having dimension of 175mm x 122mm x 11mm and weights at just 220 grams, the e-book reading gadget has a 6-inch touchscreen e-paper display that uses SiPix Microcup technology to produce a native resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with 167 dots-per-inch and 16 grey scales. The BenQ nReader K60 provides a 2 GB of storage space, equals 4000 books and a microSD card slot (up to 16 GB) for more storage space. Additional features include WiFi, a mini USB port, a USB 2.0 port and a 3.5mm audio jack. The device supports a wide range of file formats including ePub, PDF, TXT, HTML, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and MP3. No information on pricing so far.

IWOOT recently released a new eBook reader ‘Foxit eSlick’ for the UK market. Measuring 7.4-inch x 4.7-inch x 0.4-inch and weighing 6.4 ounces, this slim and and lightweight gadget comes with a 6-inch 600 x 800 E-Ink display, a 512 MB of internal memory, a 2 GB SD memory card (included), an MP3 player, a headphone jack and supports both PDF and TXT file formats. Available in either white or black color option, the Foxit eSlick sells for £189 (about $314).

You might not have heard of Marvell, but it’s one of the world’s leading chip makers, piecing together the systems used in everything from phones to plug computers. It’s just announced a partnership with E Ink, the company behind the easy on the eye screens in many e-readers, to start shoving new tech inside to make them faster and more powerful than ever before.

As part of the new partnership, Marvell will start using its new Armada processor in e-readers, which promises fast page loading and PDF rendering, as well as extended battery life and best of all, support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. In other words, the next Kindle killer could pack all three in, and on the cheap too: Marvell says e-readers using it will have “competitive price points”.

The first e-reader fruit of the partnership is already on the way: called the enTourage eDGe, it’s a twin screen e-reader running Android due next year. You can expect equally powerful gizmos to emerge from rivals soon after – will the e-reader 2.0 be the next big thing at CES 2010?