70 % share for indie authors, $ 9.99 price for ebooks, eReaders that let you change fonts and read books to you, Apps for eReaders — These are all being disregarded as transitory and merely strategic moves
by eReader companies.
Not exact matches
While Indigo reported that indigo.ca, grew
by 14.0 %, «
eReading,» which «includes
eReaders,
eReader accessories, Kobo revenue share, and shipping revenue» dropped 40 %, providing just 2.2 % of
company revenue, down from 3.8 %.
The
company also introducing Dropbox integration, a service which allows you to easily update your
eReader's library
by automatically synchronizing the files available on your Dropbox account, no wires or software needed.
Recent investments made
by 3M New Ventures include minority stakes in Perceptive Pixel Inc., a developer of advanced multi-touch solutions; Printechnologics GmbH, a printed electronics specialist providing innovative solutions for electronic circuitry on paper or foil; and txtr GmbH, an innovative
eReading technology
company.
Review Date: April 2017 — Review unit provided
by Arta Tech Overview The InkBook Prime is the latest ebook reader from Arta Tech, an
ereader company based in Poland.
The
Company also intends to continue to offer the best black - and - white
eReaders on the market, backed
by quality customer service and technology support for those devices.
Review Date: April 2017 — Review unit provided
by Arta Tech Overview The InkBook Classic 2 is the latest entry - level ebook reader from Arta Tech, a small
ereader company based in Poland that ships their ebook readers worldwide.
The most popular
ereaders also make it easy to buy ebooks on the device,
by connecting automatically to their parent
company.
There is a lot of buzz around
eReaders and lots of
companies (not just Apple) are trying to get a share of the
eReader market
by drumming up the reading capabilities of their non-
ereader device.
Review Date: December 2015 — Review unit provided
by Arta Tech Overview The inkBook Obsidian was released in late 2015
by Arta Tech, an
ereader company based in Europe.
eReader companies have to rebuild the value advantage
by adding other features, adding more to ebooks and finding other ways to amp up value.
The
companies behind
eReader apps for the iPad and iPhone must have been told the new rules were finally to be enforced, and major changes were noticed this weekend
by The Digital Reader that include the removal of Google Books from the iTunes App Store.
Amazon may be coy, but CEO Russ Wilcox of e-Ink, the Cambridge, MA
company that manufactures the revolutionary display technology used
by the Kindle and the Sony
eReader, recently provided the Boston Globe «s Robert Weisman with a detailed, forward - looking chronology in which he laid out exactly what features we can reasonably expect in the Kindle 3.0 and beyond during 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Financial services
company Credit Suisse has issued a report that predicts
eReader ownership
by one third of adult book readers within 5 years.
Overall it seems that many
companies were inspired
by success of Kindle and Sony
eReader and decided to jump into what seems to be a promising market.
When it first debuted, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet went head - to - head with Amazon's Kindle Fire with a great screen, microSD card slot and a stylish design, but the
company may have done itself a disservice
by pricing its 7 - inch color
eReader $ 50 higher.
Used
by most
eReader companies.
Many, if not most, ebooks have geographical restrictions and I would suppose that
eReader / Fictionwse now has access to a larger staff who can take the time to vet such things — and, of course, is now owned
by a
company who takes such stuff pretty seriously.
Note: This is still heavily limited
by the reluctance of
eReader companies to open up their devices, especially when it comes to apps that could be used to organize, manipulate, or process ebooks.
The
ereader market is dominated
by Amazon devices, and the
company has three other Kindle products to choose from.
It seems the
ereader market may be a little less crowded than we expected, with word that the German txtr device has been abandoned
by parent
company Txtr.
eReader companies are coming in with their own angle and it's heavily skewed
by what's best for them.
Acer kindly gets us started in the
eReading section
by showing Google Books and the
company's LumiRead app, which can read PDFs and ePubs you transfer to the device, but is intended for downloading content in countries where Acer has agreements with publishers (for now, the U.S. market is not one of those).
The thing is, PocketBook — the
company — doesn't have the benefit of selling zillions of ebooks to generate extra cash flow like Amazon, Sony, and B&N, who all can afford to sell their
ereaders for cheaper because they can make up the difference
by selling ebooks.
Clients frequently ask if I provide conversion to ebook formats, and I invariably refer them to one or another
company where the people already know all about EPUB and MOBI (the variant HTML used
by Kindle) and the idiosyncracies of the other
ereaders.
It is a convincing theory, one reinforced
by Amazon's announcement that in 2010 the
company sold more books for the Kindle
ereader than paper copies, along with the popularity of the Kindle, the Nook and the iPad, a point Eisler highlights early on.
NextBook
ereaders and tablets are all based on the Android platform and are made
by a
company called E-FUN, whom also make a pen that can digitize any written text.
Released in July 2009, the Cool - er is new to the
ereader crowd and is made
by a UK - based
company called Interead, and is sold to many countries.
Well, only hours after my speculation that Amazon might intend to make a huge impact
by being the first
company to make the next obvious step in
eReader innovation
by jumping in with a Color Kindle they have leaked some information to the contrary.
There were already more established
ereaders, offered
by more well - known
companies, when they entered the market, and they had no big retailer support, whereas in many of the international markets where they've gained a substantial following they were partnered with a major bookstore chain and arrived before the Kindle was available.
An article
by the New York Times shows that the bookselling
company has 27 percent of the
eReader market.
The
company's managing director, James Daunt, said that he had been inspired
by the Nook, US bookseller Barnes & Noble's
ereader.
The
company's Kindle eBook readers led to a boom in the
eReader market, and then Amazon became the only
company to contend with Apple's iPad lineup
by offering solid tablets at rock bottom prices.