e-readers

My wife and I often like to read if we awaken during the night. Are any of the e-readers back-lit, i. e. usable in the dark?

This week, I was lucky enough to get a chance to see what Amazon has cooking for its next generation of e-readers.

About 25 percent of the children surveyed said they had already read a book on a digital device, including computers and e-readers.

With most e-readers you get only a single page at a time, rather than two opposing pages like you would see in a traditional paper book.

I have no doubt that e-readers will eventually enormously affect the types of books published, and the form they are published in.

And yet, I also recognize the astonishing potential of digital texts and e-readers.

Like the rest of the gadget world, e-readers are in the midst of their own format war.

Until now, the company has limited itself to making black and white e-readers, designed for consuming books and magazines.

Under the new partnership, Acer is to help Founder develop new PCs while using Founder's Chinese content platform for its e-readers.

Anecdotal evidence and empirical research that showed tablets were eating into the netbook market much more than dedicated e-readers.

Even at the current prices, the e-readers--not the tablets, yet--are almost cheaper than providing paper literature.

Unlike conventional display screens, which are lit from behind, e-readers use reflected light in a way similar to paper.

Since the launch of Amazon's Kindle in 2007, e-readers have become a fast-growing category of consumer electronics products.

However, now in a world piled high with smartphones, tablets and e-readers, technology has entered the classroom in ways unimaginable.

In the case of Amazon and Barnes & Noble, of course, cheap e-readers presumably mean more book sales.

True, Steve Jobs, Apple's mercurial boss, has expressed scepticism about e-readers, claiming that "people don't read any more" .

Now Apple's iPad is expected to cement consumer demand for a new class of tablet-style computers and e-readers.

Most e-readers have tried to replace page numbers by showing the percentage of the book read.

Yet if e-readers do take off, the real beneficiaries could be the ailing newspaper and magazine publishers.

Amazon now dominates thee-book market, thanks to its popular Kindle e-readers.

Among commuters, e-readers are starting to catch up with BlackBerrys as the preferred companions on trains and buses.

This has led to speculation that these and subsequent e-readers mark the turning point in the market for hard copy books.

Almost all e-readers today lack the interactive experience that could make reading digital books truly interesting, says Brunner.

Cheap and efficient e-readers will have comparably huge effects on the book publishing industry.

This week Amazon also rolled out a new range of Kindle e-readers, the cheapest of which costs just $79.

Most e-readers there -- manufactured mainly by local players -- can get expensive for the average Chinese consumer.

Evans was previously honored as a 2004 Tech Pioneer for Plastic Logic, a maker of flexible displays for lightweight e-readers.

As print publications move to e-readers, animated infographics will eventually become standard.

Few people will mourn publishers' losses from increased price competition and new technology like e-readers.

But I'm curious about the potential for e-readers to shake up our book-purchasing habits.

Annotation and reference chops are pretty standard on e-readers, but they're worth exploring nevertheless.

But smart-phones have small screens, and e-readers render magazines as crudely illustrated black-and-white books.

Are e-Readers the Beginning of the End for Books?

Consumers can already get hold of many publications on smart-phones and e-readers.

But even ardent supporters acknowledge that e-readers may not be best for everyone.

Apple also launched an online iBooks store for downloading print media, which pitches the iPad against Amazon's Kindle and other e-readers.

In 2010 Apple sold about 15m of its sexy touch-screen devices, prompting real competition: e-readers suddenly became affordable.

People have proven willing to pay for long-form journalism on e-readers.

Haber expects the market for e-readers to exceed 2 million units this year in the United States.

Sony has offered a range of e-readers for years, and has recently introduced several new models.

But will mainstream users bother with e-readers at all?

The color-screen challenge comes as the popularity of e-readers grows.

E-books and e-readers are playing an increasingly important role on the worldwide book market.

Hanwang pre-installs a number of books into its e-readers, mostly classics and booklets of historical works.

THE rise of e-readers has already introduced big changes for both publishers and readers.

Both e-readers are so lightweight that I forgot I had each one in my bag at different times.

DC now says the books will be available on other e-readers through the Kindle app.

The bright spots for this industry: netbooks and e-readers.

I do believe that e-readers foretell an enormous change in the book publishing industry.

Ms Moore is already talking to makers of e-readers about working together.

As many as 5m e-readers are being produced this year internationally, and analysts say that could double in 2010.

But it's hard to find out what kind of data the e-readers are sending.

Most e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle, have an antenna that lets users instantly download new books.

Close to 20 different e-readers are competing for consumers and for content resources in China.

That's because e-readers' firmware offers few font choices.

It is developing a completely electronic reference desk, and there will be four Kindle 2 e-readers on site.

Might e-readers provide a new model for newspapers in the digital age?

People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows.

Connectivity of the 3G variety is the "power door lock" of e-readers.

We've written a lot this year about the boom in e-readers and the benefits that e-books have over print.

The interface is very slick and intuitive compared to other E-Readers out there.

Not only is the OS more open than other e-readers, but the device supports more open file formats.

The second innovation is the use of wireless data networks to load books and other information onto the e-readers.

But the hope is that music-players, e-readers and mobile phones will eventually follow, says Dr Smith.

Amazon -- Kindle 2 and DX sparked a boom in digital e-readers.

Most e-readers have screens using so-called electronic ink technology, which was pioneered by Taiwan-based E Ink Corp.

For one thing, e-readers are not yet a mature technology and are still too expensive.

Even so, around 5m e-readers will be sold worldwide in 2009, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm, and a further 12m in 2010.

Florida districts have four years to figure this out, and the price of e-readers will drop even more during that time.

Expect more of them to fold in 2010, e-readers or no.

There are some aspects of reading a print book that e-readers still haven't been able to re-create.

Why do we buy e-readers?

E-readers do have a cost advantage.

Sales of e-readers are expected to reach 12m this year, up from 5m in 2009 and 1m in 2008, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm.

Sony's latest e-readers were launched in the latter part of last year.

Hanwang's e-readers last year grabbed 43 per cent of the 620, 000 units shipped in the fledgling Chinese market.

Book lovers nowadays fall into one of two camps: They either eschew e-readers altogether , preferring the look and feel of print books;

This is up from 3. 7 million e-readers and 30 million e-books sold last year.

Tablets and e-readers will mean big disruption for the publishing business

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Why e-Readers Are a Worthy Business Investment

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