The market for electronic readers, which had been dominated with relative ease by Amazon with its Kindle, has begun to shake account new business announcements and movements that seek to conquer a slice of that pie. Expectations for sales in this market this year are around 3 million digital books, totaling 13 million expected by 2013 according to Forrester.
was first announced that the Amazon Kindle going to be available for sale in more than 100 countries from 19 October. Kindle is the first device of its kind that has become popular (but not globally, at least in the United States, the international launch a movement to popularize and try to emulate the success of Apple with its iPod) and has , among other interesting features:
- Electronic Ink, a new way of displaying information that emulates a high degree of effectiveness of ink printed on paper.
- Connecting via 3G (via cellular networks).
- owner e-book format (the books can only be downloaded on the Kindle).
Days later, Google announced Google Editions, a platform of digitized books will be available in the network (similar to how you have the mails in GMAIL service) to be viewed from anywhere in the world and on any device that connects to the Internet and has a browser. Although not really a device, and not even be an electronic book reader, will compete in this market since the books can be read from mobile devices like cell phones (as long as they have Internet Access).
And Barnes & Noble is now entering the fray to officially announce its electronic book reader called Nook.
Nook The main characteristics are:
- Touch screen and colors.
- Android operating system (Android is an operating system used in some of the latest models of mobile phones that have hit the market and is developed by Google under the scheme of Open Source or Open Source, however it is unclear whether other Android applications Nook will run on).
- Open standard (content can be shared with iPhones, iPods, some mobile phone models from Motorola and Blackberry and PC or MAC with the reader software installed.)
- LendMe (lender) who is a technology that enables the sharing, free, e-books with other people for up to 14 days at a time.
- 3G and WiFi support.
believe that the Latin American market for these devices is just beginning to develop, so it is prudent to wait a little longer before buying one of these devices, and Amazon took the first step in marketing the Kindle in several countries of the area but the now the main constraint is that there is limited availability of titles in English (because Amazon - Kindle uses a proprietary format), with the arrival of Nook and open format should be developed more quickly.
Definition: An electronic book reader (e-reader in English) is a device that is portable, with screens that can be read easily even to the bright daylight, have lasting batteries and let you read books that have been digitized or converted to electronic format (e-books). May be a device specifically designed for that purpose (such as Amazon's Kindle) or can have multiple uses (any cell phone or smartphone that supports intelligent viewer can act PDF e-reader).
Some manufacturers of electronic book readers are: Sony (PRS-600, PRS-300), Booker (Cybook Opus), Hanvon (N516, 518, N526, N520), Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes & Noble (Nook .) ------------
References:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_e-TIME: http://www.eltiempo.com/enter/
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