14 DAY TRIAL // With all the success that e-reader suppliers have been reporting recently, it makes sense that other companies would seek to score big on this rowing market as well, so hearing that Sharp is trying to expand the availability of its own device may not seem too surprising.
The past couple of weeks have seen companies the likes of Amazon and Barnes & Noble proudly announcing how well their respective e-book readers performed over the past year.
For instance, Amazon's kindle was said to be the company's best-selling product in history, while Kobo also basked in sales during the holiday season.
Meanwhile, the Nook from B&N also sold well, too well apparently, as the high number of activations during Christmas led to a server crash that made the e-book store unavailable for several days.
Nevertheless, the fact is that the e-reader market has prospered, to the point where other companies are now deciding to expand their horizons.
Sharp is one such company and owns the Galapagos e-reader, which has been available in Japan, its home market, for a while now.
What Sharp intends is to begin extending availability of the device to other countries and has set its eyes on its first target already, the US.
Currently, the Galapagos series is composed of three members, two of which have 5.5-inch screens with resolutions of 1,024 x 600 pixels and a third one, measuring 10.8 inches, whose screen resolution is 1,355 x 800 pixels.
It is these three that are set to make their way across the ocean and into US stores as soon as possible.
Sharp hopes to be able to make its three products widely available in the US early next year, 2011, after which it will start to worry about how to do the same in other countries.
Mainichi Daily states that Chine, Brazil and India are just a few of the regions Sharp has in mind.