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2010
Last year there were more sales for e-books than printed books. On March 5 this year, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest chain of bookstores, online acquired e-book seller, Fiction Wise. Chairman of BN, William J. Linch said: "The market is not that developed yet. We're a big growth area going forward."
Many people want to buy and read e-books and e-journals via lightweight handheld readers today. Several companies have come up with innovative, standalone e-book readers like Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Hanlin eReader (aka Endless Ideas BeBook), etc. This elegant thin gadgets people can take back to the era of the lecture. Let us consider some of these readers in this article.
E-books and e-magazines: How do they work?
E-books can be of two types: those can be read on a computer and those special devices to read. There are different formats for e-books such as Adobe PDF, Microsoft LIT, Palm PDB, etc. To buy an e-book, go to the online seller of the e-book, pay and register your reader for DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection, and download the e-book reader registered. Since only the registered e-book reader this e-book, the author and the publisher can be read protected against piracy. Digital Copy is not possible with DRM protection.
Popular e-book Readers
There are many readers available in the market, and most of them working with electronic paper technology from E Ink Corporation.
In 2008, an Apple iPhone app for reading e-books in iPhone had a sharp increase in sales (even more than the total sales of Amazon Kindle). This made the iPhone one of the popular devices to read e-books. But in this article we will look only at specialized e-book readers.
1. Amazon Kindle
Perhaps the most popular e-book readers, Amazon Kindle had a total sales of 380,000 units in 2008 in the U.S. alone. Kindle is now in the next generation with the advent of the Amazon Kindle and Kindle 2 This years DX (DX is already sold out). According Digital Book Readers, K-DX provides native PDF support, has an iPhone-like accelerometer that changes the orientation of the screen when you turn the Reader is more suited for reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, books and formatted. With the ability to keep thousands of e-books in storage and easy access to the online Amazon e-book store, Kindle may be the first choice of anyone looking for a stand-alone e-book reader.
The display is normal paper and easy to read. Kindle has wireless capabilities to access the online bookstore Amazon Store and magazines. Kindle 2 has a 600 x 800 (6 inch) screen. It can books received through the Sprint high-speed 3G network, at national level. Supported formats are the Amazon proprietary format, AZW (DRM-restricted), China, TXT, PDF and (some of these formats may need to convert to AZW).
2. Sony Reader
Sony Digital Book Reader, the popular e-book reader from Sony, and there have been three editions of the PRS-500, PRS-505 and PRS-700.
The reader has a 600 x 800 pixel electronic paper display (EPD), similar to Kindle, and the display is 8-level grayscale. PRS-700 edition, unlike others, sports a touch screen. Supported e-book formats include BBeB Book (Marlin out), TXT, RTF, epub, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC). It supports JPEG, POISON, PNG and BMP for images and MP3 and AAC audio.
3. iRex iLiad
iRex iLiad, similar to Kindle and Sony Reader uses electronic paper display and comes in 768 x 1024 (8 inch) resolution. It has 16-level grayscale screen.
Via Wi-Fi, LAN, USB connectivity, or a network using a MyiRex account, you can transfer e-books to readers. The e-book formats supported include Adobe PDF, MOBI, China, HTML and TXT.
4. Hanlin eReader
Hanlin eReader, known in various brands in the world, including Endless Ideas BeBook, is a popular e-book reader. It has an 600 x 800 resolution, 4-level grayscale display. It connects through a USB port.
Unlike other readers above mentioned, this reader supports nearly all popular file formats for e-books, Adobe PDF, CHM, DjVu, DOC, epub, FB2, HTM, LIT, MOBI, PPT, PRC, RTF, TXT, WOLF. It supports also as ZIP and RAR archive formats, image formats such as BMP, POISON, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and audio format, MP3.
Conclusion
Most of this e-book readers with revolutionary technology developed by E-Ink E Ink Corporation. This is a digital paper display, which the experience of reading real paper gives. With storage space for thousands of e-books and the ability to keep the battery for several hours or thousands of page turns, this e-book readers can be considered as portable libraries. Because they connect to your network to buy and download popular fiction and nonfiction of online e-book vendors, they provide a great reading experience if you are a long distance travel.
Platic Logic E-Reader Prototype Demo
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