Kobo today announced it will be launching a new screen touch based e-Reader. Retail price will be $130, $9 less than the Kindle Wi-Fi. The pocket-sized device strives for a reading experience more akin to that of old timey paper books, courtesy of a Zeforce infrared touchscreen, new Pearl eInk technology, and a freescale i.MX507 [...]
Introduction Archos has already rolled out a number of tablets, but the 70c marks the company’s first attempt to tap into the e-reading market. Indeed, the Archos 70c is billed as a color eReader even though it behaves more like its tablet siblings. The device plays videos and music, surfs the web, downloads apps, displays [...]
I know, The e-Reader market is a confusing one. It seems like everyday a new e-Reader is launched, a new eBook released and a new technology takes over the “old” one, which is actually only 6 months old. That’s why I’ve created a detailed list of ereaders, their supported software or applications, supported eBook formats, [...]
The e-Reader market has essentially become a two horse race between the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad, according to ChangeWave’s latest survey of more than 2,800 consumers. The Amazon Kindle (47%; down 15-pts) is hanging on to a rapidly diminishing lead over the Apple iPad (32%; up 16-pts) among current e-Reader owners. However, the [...]
The Nook Color is now available for shipping. Will it shake up the eReader world as some analysts predict? Just as interesting, will it end the dominance of the Kindle as the king of eReaders? Back in April, DigiTimes Research reported that the Nook’s March sales were higher than the Kindle’s. Since both Barnes & [...]
That depends on who you’re giving the gift to. To give someone an eReader is to give the gift of reading. But not everyone wants that kind of gift. Some would rather have a gift of music; you’d rather give these people an iPod. Some would rather have the gift of games; you’d rather give [...]
Scholastic’s recently released a study with some interesting findings. The company interviewed 1,045 children aged six to 17 and their parents about reading habits. One of the interesting tidbits is that the children who don’t read for fun very much (once a week or less), about a third of them said they would read more [...]
There are just some things we don’t know about e-Readers, and most of what we don’t know about eReaders are related to sales. What, really, is the market’s total size? How many eReaders have been sold in all, and what is the average volume of eReaders shipped each month? What is the market share of [...]
Bangalore (India) based digital publisher EC Media International launched its first multi-function e-book reader Wink that not only supports 15 languages but will also offer over 200,000 book titles on debut. Wink will offer consumers a one-stop e-store to access e-reading content of choice via www.thewinkstore.com that would enable access not just to e-books, but [...]
Sony said Thursday it will launch an e-reader in Japan and set up a platform for newspapers, books, comics and magazines, challenging rival Apple a day before its iPad goes on sale in the country. The Japanese electronics giant plans to build “one of the largest eBook distribution platforms in Japan,” with telecoms operator KDDI, [...]