The Universe of eReaders and eBooks
The ebook and ereader markets are still going through some turmoil even after substantial price cuts of major eink-based ereaders like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony Readers – all of which are backed by large scale ebook retailers like Amazon, B&N, and Borders. While it seemed just a couple of months back that all other [...]
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What does it mean for dedicated ereaders in the face of flood of tablet PCs (specially android-based) after the success of iPad? Some might think it’s a threat to iPad, not ereaders. I think the other way around. There are huge number of MP3/MP4/MP5 devices; but that didn’t announce the demise of iPodTouch. Similar way, [...]
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Mike Elgan from ComputerWorld writes 7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year. In counter, Lance Ulanoff from PCmag writes 7 Reasons Why eReaders Make Great Gifts This Year. The following table shows the main points from these two authors: Why Lousy? Why Great? We’re on the brink of radical change in how [...]
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by Eric Nicolas | The Recent Future Remember back in the 1980s companies were making dedicated word processors that were a hybrid typewriter/computer approach? They were actually fairly popular until PC prices came down and made them redundant. Now, technology is approaching The Written Word from the opposite angle: reading. Before long companies will realize [...]
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