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With all the attention invested in the tablet market, e-readers haven't been causing many ripples lately, but they haven't gone by ignored either, as it looks like a certain new model might appear soon.The thing about e-readers is that they are affordable, single-purpose (supposedly) electronics that anyon... |
5 May 2011
04:47 GMT |
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End-users may know of E Ink and its large role in the continued existence of e-book readers, along with other devices that employ electronic paper displays, but it seems that those wishing for a new display will have to make do without.Even though there are such things as color e-readers (the possibility of seeing t... |
3 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
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That e-readers and e-books are making life hard for paperback books is not something new at all, but it looks like a certain analyst firm decided to look at just how big the effect already is, or will be.For those that do not know, book revenue in the year 2010 was of roughly $25 billion, a figure that is only set t... |
29 April 2011
11:15 GMT |
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It appears that the rapid surge of e-reader sales led to an even faster rise in the sale of e-books, to the point where paper books lost a lot of their prospective purchasers, although this all is hardly a surprise.E-readers were one of the two fastest growing product categories in terms of sales, early last year, t... |
16 April 2011
04:54 GMT |
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E-readers may not be getting as much attention as they used to, what with tablets eating up most of the media's time, but they aren't about to fade into obscurity either, especially now that their prices are getting so low.Amazon's Kindle is the figurehead of the e-book reader market and has been sinc... |
12 April 2011
07:42 GMT |
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A general fear for our age is that the populace, in general, reads less than they used to, and a recent analysis of this field, as well as of the e-book segment in particular, appears to confirm this, more or less.Normally, one would think that a piece of news saying that some market segment or another saw serious g... |
18 March 2011
04:29 GMT |
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There come times when a once famous product finds its end, so to speak, and is allowed to move to the halls of history in order to leave the present and future to other hardware, but this time the plug has been pulled on a somewhat less well known device from Spring Design.Besides notebooks and tablets, the market o... |
22 February 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Even with all the phones and tablets on show at the Mobile World Congress expo, some e-book readers still got their share of attention, such as the one developed by Onda, albeit not exactly detailed as far as hardware goes.E-book readers are that sort of device that surprised the IT industry when they were launched,... |
17 February 2011
05:42 GMT |
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It appears that E-Ink is doing just as fine as ever as far as finances are concerned, as its revenues seem to have continued to grow even over the course of the past month, especially on an on-year basis.Last year, even though some market segments did worse than others, the overall situation showed a vast improvemen... |
9 February 2011
05:59 GMT |
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It appears that launching new products is not all that is happening on the market, as certain devices seem to be nearing the end of their lives, like a certain device form Barnes and Noble.Barnes and Noble is known for being a very large bookstore chain, possessing a very encompassing collection of tomes of various ... |
25 January 2011
06:02 GMT |
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In the IT industry, companies get bought and sold all the time, and it seems Samsung just acquired a certain company that holds the IP for a certain technology that should, among other things, yield e-paper screens far superior to existing ones.While netbooks have failed to grow, as a market, at the rate that analys... |
20 January 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Not long ago, IDC issued a press release meant to inaugurate the debut of its Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, and part of said release had, of course, information on the current situation on the e-reader market.That the tablet market had boomed last year is something that was confirmed yet agai... |
18 January 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Since the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing, it is not surprising to hear that a new e-reader has come out, this time from Hanvon, especially knowing how successful such devices were last year.
It appears that Hanvon has finished designing and finalizing the marketing plans for its newest E Ink e-bo... |
8 January 2011
04:26 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle e-reader may be its best selling product, but there is always room for improvement, and Amazon decided to extend the possibility of buying its e-books to even more users by offering free apps for tablet PCs.As end-users probably know, many tablets, running Android or Windows, will be released at... |
4 January 2011
10:52 GMT |
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Barnes and Noble may not have escaped its share of legal problems, but it doesn't seem daunted in its efforts to keep up the e-reader work, as it is even implied that the next generation of the Nook is already on the way. Like Sony and market leader Amazon, Barnes and Noble was one of the first few companies to... |
30 December 2010
08:43 GMT |
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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 t... |
30 December 2010
04:26 GMT |
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It seems that the Amazon Kindle is not the only e-reader that caused its supplier to grin with glee, metaphorically or otherwise, by selling like mad, as Kobo claims to have experienced something similar over the holidays.Since the winter holiday season always implies that a lot of electronics get bought, it is a gi... |
28 December 2010
09:52 GMT |
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At some point in a company's life, there comes the time when a product sells so well and brings in so much money that its maker can't help but consider it its best-selling product ever, something Amazon seems to be finding out right now.Not long ago, reports emerged saying that Amazon will have sold about ... |
27 December 2010
10:39 GMT |
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It appears that history is repeating itself as far as Barnes and Noble is concerned, as quite a few users of the Nook e-reader found that they were unable to make the best of their devices due to server issues.Late least year, around the same holidays as the ones happening now, two things happened to B&N's e-re... |
27 December 2010
06:00 GMT |
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If you want a more open reading experience on your iOS device, according to Google, now you can. Minutes ago, the Mountain View, California-based company released its all-new Google Books application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, hoping to convert some of Apple’s iBooks fans over to the search giant’s ... |
6 December 2010
14:09 GMT |
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It seems that quite a few e-readers have been released over the past month, no doubt in order for them to be present as prospective purchases during the holiday season, and Hanvon has now added its latest device, the so-called WISEreader.E-readers have definitely come a long way since last year, not just in terms of... |
25 November 2010
03:02 GMT |
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E-readers may not be getting as much attention as the media slate market, but they are definitely not about to be put on hold, as is made obvious by how Brokeen has now begun to ship its latest device.E-readers originally started out as more or less simple devices meant specifically for allowing one to read books in... |
24 November 2010
10:06 GMT |
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It seems that Pandigital is not the only company that has completed an e-reader, as a certain German outfit, Odys by name, has now brought forth its own such device, one dubbed Genesis.E-readers really started to take off as a market late last year, 2009 that is, especially after the Kindle became Amazon's best... |
22 November 2010
07:08 GMT |
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While some companies are releasing new tablets, others appear to be feeding the steadily rising tide of e-readers, and Pandigital just started to send out its 9-inch version of the Novel. It appears that Pandigital has done something that other companies seldom do and began shipping one of its more highly anticipate... |
22 November 2010
04:08 GMT |
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While color has been something that owners of e-readers have been waiting for, the wish was slow in actually being fulfilled, but it seems Barnes and Noble has finally gotten around to doing something of the sort, even several days ahead of schedule.E-readers really took off as a market once Amazon's Kindle, al... |
16 November 2010
10:38 GMT |
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Entourage has been a presence on the e-reader market for a while, but only now has it gotten around to actually start shipping the Pocket eDGe e-book reader, la product ikely set to compete against the Huawei S7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab.The Entourage pocket eDGe is a smaller version of the eDGe clamshell and is, basic... |
12 November 2010
10:49 GMT |
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The e-book industry is growing at a solid pace and is on track to drive almost $1 billion in sales this year in the US alone and this with only a small percentage of book readers buying e-books. According to a Forrester report, the sales figure will triple in the next five years."2010 will end with $966 million in eB... |
9 November 2010
12:16 GMT |
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While e-readers still haven't surpassed the age of grayscale E Ink displays, this leap in quality appears to be drawing closer, especially now that a certain e-reader seller in China is getting ready to announce what is arguably a “world's first” device.Despite how consumers keep wishing for co... |
8 November 2010
06:08 GMT |
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If you are an avid book reader but previous eReaders available out there are a bit to large for you to carry around, then Sagem Wireless may as well have the solution for you, its Binder e-Book reader coming packed full of features at an attractive €199 price point.If you take a quick look among the Binder'... |
28 October 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Amazon wastes no occasion to tout its Kindle device and store. A lot of its quarterly financial report was dedicated to the Kindle and now Amazon is issuing a press release just to let the world know that the Kindle is the preferred device for bestsellers. Amazon is also bragging about record sales numbers of its thi... |
25 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Even though e-paper screens from e-ink have the e-reader market more or less completely under control, other technologies have been surfacing form time to time, and Gamma Dynamics has been working with the University of Cincinnati on one of its own.E-paper has, so far, dominated the e-reader market because it has a ... |
8 October 2010
08:09 GMT |
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Coming to offer existing devices some competition, the new e-reader made by Kobo has finally reared its head and taken its first steps into the world, along with its wireless connectivity capabilities and access to the Kobo store.As end-users may know, e-readers grew very quickly as a market, as a testament to the e... |
29 September 2010
07:02 GMT |
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With the e-reader market on the rise, it is no surprise to hear that companies from all over the world are bent on joining the fray, and an outfit based in Paris, Bookeen by name, has just revealed its own model, the Cybook Orizon, which should start shipping in October.E-readers may have started out as single-purpo... |
23 September 2010
03:19 GMT |
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One thing that most, if not all, currently selling e-readers lack is color support, so Velocity Micro has been developing the Cruz Reader, one that does have color and will apparently start shipping within a day.The e-reader market began to take off in the second half of 2009, especially after Amazon's Kindle s... |
14 September 2010
03:17 GMT |
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The de facto representative of the e-reader market, Amazon's Kindle, has been getting better and more versatile with every new firmware update, and it seems that the newest one will give its owners the possibility of on-device registration, among other things.Though it has not yet fulfilled the dream for color ... |
9 September 2010
10:33 GMT |
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As one would have expected, this year's IFA show in Berlin, Germany, was where a bunch of e-reader were demonstrated, and iriver definitely didn't let the opportunity slip by and showed off the Cover Story, otherwise known as the 6-inch iriver Story Touch Edition.iriver brought out the Cover Story, a devic... |
6 September 2010
04:02 GMT |
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As end-users may be aware by now, Acer will be releasing a new e-reader next month, dubbed LumiRead, but the company saw no problems with offering a preview of it, so it brought it out and put it on display at IFA.E-readers have been growing in popularity over the past year, particularly because of their ever expand... |
3 September 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Like many portable devices out there, Amazon’s Kindle comes with a correspondent for PC. Kindle for PC is designed specifically to allow you to pick up your lecture from where you left it on Amazon’s e-book reader, even if you are in front of the computer. The application is free of charge (which ... |
2 September 2010
02:31 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, E Ink recently unveiled its new e-paper screen, the Pearl display, and Sony was quick to adopt this new technology, its first move being the implementation of the Pearl in its newest generation of e-readers.For months now, Sony, Amazon and Barnes and Noble have been fighting over the e-re... |
1 September 2010
07:01 GMT |
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While the older players on the e-reader market are unveiling new generations of devices, other companies are getting ready to join the fray, and The Sharper Image hopes to make more than just one ripple with the Literati, a device with color display and pre-loaded ebooks and free extra content for download. While cu... |
27 August 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Since the e-reader market is practically booming, makers of consumer electronics are quite bent on providing such products of their own, and Acer is apparently planning on finally releasing its LumiRead in Germany, after showing it off at IFA.E-readers are portable gadgets mainly used for reading books and other doc... |
26 August 2010
04:34 GMT |
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While some companies are eager to get their e-readers out in the open, others are experiencing inventory shortages because of high demand, and Amazon was just forced to delay the shipping date of the third-generation Kindle to September 17, as opposed to September 4 as was originally intended.Not long ago, Amazon se... |
21 August 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Even though most e-readers currently on the market use greyscale screens from E-Ink, Pandigital decided to just jump ahead and get its new color e-reader out there, leading to the creation of a new version of the Novel, a 7-inch device with a color touchscreen and Barnes & Noble eBookstore integration. The second No... |
18 August 2010
09:01 GMT |
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The competition on the e-reader market has been growing in intensity and, in order to cope with added pressure from rivals and other devices with similar functionality, Sony is reportedly making steps towards the launch of two new products, known as PRS-350 and PRS-650.Until late last year, Sony had only Amazon and ... |
14 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Though e-reader, so far, have grey scale displays developed by E Ink, with a few exceptions, the company is aware of the strong desire for color and actual touch input, so it went ahead and provided two new touchscreens and even its color e-paper products, based on the Pearl display, that have already been purchased ... |
13 August 2010
06:54 GMT |
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With the e-reader market on the rise, Amazon, B&N and others saw themselves in need of reducing their e-readers' prices, and this led to a heightened competition on the market, to the point where E Ink reportedly believes that, during the second half of 2010, the amount of shipments will actually double, if not... |
11 August 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Like so many other makers of consumer electronics, Plastic Logic has been meaning to enter the E-reader market for a while, its QUE e-reader meant as the flagship product, but delays and advancements in this field have apparently led to the company's decision to give up on the project and move on to a newer gene... |
11 August 2010
02:59 GMT |
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The e-reader market has grown to remarkable large proportions over the past half a year. Not much prior to the end of 2009, there was less than a handful such electronics on sale. Now, on the other hand, the IT market is brimming and more models keep coming out. iRiver is one of the outfits who deals in this sort of... |
4 August 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Realview, an Australian digital publishing services provider, has confirmed that over 30,000 editions from over 2,000 publications it produces for clients can now be viewed on the Apple iPad, interactively. Customers needn’t access the App Store to access the content, or download anything to their tablets&rsquo... |
30 July 2010
09:58 GMT |
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Not too long ago, Amazon unveiled its latest iteration of the Kindle e-reader, and Sony even said it wouldn't engage in a price war with its rival because it prefers to not sacrifice functionality in favor of affordability. Neither of the two, however, have actually come very close to the goal of providing a sui... |
30 July 2010
08:33 GMT |
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