E-reader devices for reading the so-called digital or electronic books wirelessly download and read on portable devices like a glorified Etch-A-Sketch. This is a bit 'extreme, but this handy little digital music players are very popular, according to a recent article in Time Amazon has already sold 1.7 million of Kindle e-reader, since it was introduced in 2007.
And according to the same article, the Association of American Publishers USATotal revenue from digital downloads have increased by 149% book this year, while it is estimated, and 31 top-selling books to 3 million in December. Plus, could, according to Forrester Research, about 1 million of these devices are sold at double this holiday season, and the turnover is expected in 2010, 6 million.
"The year 2009 is a breakout years for e-readers," said Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst at Forrester Research. "But we are still in early stages."
These provide muchimpressive, and may point to e-readers as "gift" of Christmas to warm this holiday season, at least where high technology in question. Because of its well-preserved features and programs, an e-reader could make an excellent corporate business gifts, especially if they could be with your company logo and brand with your current company newsletters and RSS feeds.
Then we have the recent launch of Nook Barnes & Noble, will l 'The Amazon Kindle has some competition. The Nook has used a 6-inch paper display that looks like a support 16 shades of gray, which can reach up to five works. You can use to read PDF files, in addition to more than 1 million books, newspapers and magazines in Barnes & Noble store eBooks. The Nook is currently about $ 260 in price.
What differs from the Kindle: In addition to striking color icons, the cases of design and color customized back, the Nook has a few features such as abookmark virtual known to read that you can pick up where you left off reading the Nook, and has Wi-Fi radio, people at 700 locations in Barnes & Noble stores and 600 secondary schools in 50 states. There is not enough memory to hold 1500 pounds (2 GB) and there's a microSD slot, which could have an additional 16 GB more.
But the holiday shopping season, gift-buyers (corporate or otherwise), many other e-readers to choose from than Kindleand the Nook. Where are they made a profit, then the other company. Just like Asustek invented the category with the netbook ASUS Eee PC in 2007, other portable computer manufacturers and sellers quickly jumped on the bandwagon and flooded the market with netbooks, or mini-laptops.
This latest trend of e-readers will prove no different, take for example, Sony was the first electronic reader introduced way back in 2004, the introduction of three new devices after 'Article in Time. The Sony Reader is a Pocket Edition (they are $ 199), sporting a 5-inch diagonal, Touch Edition ($ 299), the touch screen will be mounted and the Daily Edition ($ 399), which will be equipped with wireless capabilities.
ASUS is also in the market of e-reader with a product called Eee-readers, who should be on the market for Christmas. Then there's Fujitsu FLEP the only commercially available e-reader, which has a color screen. And 'only available in JapanThe cost is about $ 1100. Ouch!
For the consumer more modest iRex Digital Reader will meet with stores in the United States this month, October 2009. The DR800 will be a 8.1-in. Touch screen with wireless connectivity and is for $ 90 less than similar size, the Kindle DX, will once again be sold for about $ 489. This is the price at the time of writing, they expect prices fall heats for the competition.
On the horizon, there are many different versions of the e-reader to be heldMarket. There's even a fold as a model, which open like a book and another called Polymer Vision, Readius is a cell phone, but has a flexible screen that folds up to make the mobile phone add-on.
Then we iTablet imminent debut of the legendary Apple could a game-changer across the arena and-reader. Could also be a murderess because Apple Nook Kindle or the huge popularity among consumers, technology experts who want only the latest gadgetsmarket.
One really has to question why all this popularity for the E-Reader, especially since we already have the small portable netbook on the market, which can be easily used for reading books. More specifically, we already have Tablet PCs which could easily fulfill this reading function. Granted they may be slightly larger, but they also offer all the features of a laptop, so why not just convert/use this device as an E-Reader?
Regardless, the E-Reader seems to be gearing up to A top-tech gifts for Christmas. The perfect gift for family, friends and associates ... especially for reading the book of fanatics in your family or company. E-readers are also ideal gifts for those who have the latest gadgets and latest technology to market with ease.
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