The phrase
"ereader market" refers to the industry or space where electronic reading devices are bought, sold, and used. It includes the various devices, such as Kindles or Nooks, that allow people to read digital books, magazines, and newspapers.
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It's not making the hard investment of making an eReader — it's leaving the core
eReader market alone.
Not only B&N has gone through a tough year, Sony is nearly a no - show
in eReader market with the disappointing sale of its supposedly flagship model PRS - T3 and the 13.3 digital slate.
This last entry in the list of new items might be the most overlooked to the biggest news seekers, but it's set to overtake a still massive
ereader market with technology that's set to dash standard E-Ink's brains out - and it's relatively inexpensive, too!
«The Kindle has a dominant 82 % market share» — Kindle has 66 %
of eReaders market in Poland according to this survey.
Neonode believes it is well positioned to take advantage of the growth in this market because its zForce ® product line allows it to address the entire
eReader market as the migration from traditional buttons to touch screen accelerates.
... [Although] multipurpose devices such as the iPad and low - cost Android tablets will eventually eradicate this
dedicated eReader market entirely.
Borders has been trying for some time to enter into the Kindle
dominated eReader market, but buying the company currently making the second most popular eReader on sale today (sometimes estimated to hold as much as 10 % of the market) would give them some real hope of making a place for themselves.
Well, to be perfectly honest, I still believe that multipurpose devices such as the iPad and low - cost Android tablets will eventually eradicate this dedicated
eReader market entirely, like the meteor that plowed its way into the Yucatan 65 million years ago and laid waste to almost all life on this world.
Kobo, which owns 20 percent of the
global eReader market [source: DigiTimes] and has users in 190 countries, has established localized eReading services in 12 countries around the world and is continuing its momentum in 2013 with plans for aggressive growth.
E-ink (at least in it's current technological form) is truly only relevant in the stand alone
ereader market which is quickly being surpassed by very low priced low end tablets.
Of course, given its Amazon it's probably going to be a Kindle DX WiFi that comes in at $ 250 and helps Amazon dominate the large
screen eReader market totally.
Sony will hand a big part of their own
ereader market over to the competition if they do not invest in a good front lighting technology, just like Kobo and Onyx did.
Since Amazon discontinued the 9.7 - inch Kindle DX, the M96 pretty much has no competition in the
large ereader market, which is a shame because larger E Ink screens have a lot of advantages.
«During this holiday season, Kobo has demonstrated strong sales and continued leadership within the
competitive eReading market; we are very excited to complete the acquisition of Kobo and look forward in supporting its global expansion,» said Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten.
Essentially, B&N is willing to take a deeper cut on hardware sales now for a longer - term gain in ebook sales, and ultimately a greater share of the
UK ereading market.
My main complaint with the
saturated ereader market in general is that there are three or four devices that do things perfectly while the competition seems an entire generation or more behind yet keeps the prices of current - gen products.
Amazon knows that there is zero competition in the 9.7 ″
eInk eReader market and is making the most of it.
Already transitioning from the early adopters phase to mainstream, the
emerging eReader market is showing us the potency of the publishing digital revolution.
Although the Nook is popular in the US, it has failed to lauch internationally and the deal with Microsoft could give it the help it needs to take on Amazon in the
lucrative eReader market.
We're basically seeing the eBooks and
eReader markets break up into segments — Nook Color threatens to steal casual readers and Google Editions threatens to steal book sales to casual and hardcore readers.
Kobo, which Serbinis said was «neck and neck» for third place in the
U.S. eReader market dominated by Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook eReaders, is looking to gain market share on being the most affordable digital reading device available.
«We're confident Que is going to remain on the most wanted list of mobile business professionals — and that there's still ample room in the
nascent eReader market to compete, especially for those who are not solely focused on the crowded eBook space,» she wrote.
Sharp, meanwhile, has taken a more unusual step and abandoned its traditional PC business in favor of chasing the
tablet ereader market with its Galapagos range, though beyond talk of a carrier partnership with Verizon the US details are still scarce.
«We are very excited to be entering the
explosive eReader market with a device that brings the best of a traditional reading experience into the digital age,» Reid Sullivan, senior vice president at Samsung Electronics America, said.
Adapting to the
growing ereader market is smart, but a branding change (Kindlegraph to Authorgraph) is always painful.
This is wild speculation — and yet, if Amazon releases a super Kindle or a color Kindle for Christmas that wins it the holiday season then Amazon would get a death grip on the
dedicated eReader market.
If everything pans out and device manufacturers and publishers buy into the secure system, FBReader has a promising future in the
competitive eReader market and could be worth your while downloading.
The truth is that if you release in the
biggest eReader market and the Press won't even review your devices you are just a few steps away from becoming invisible and irrelevant.
The eReader market is still confusing, but hopefully Griffey's post will help you understand some of the differences of the filetypes and DRM.
Nook Color is a relatively decent tablet story, but Barnes & Noble still trails well behind Amazon in
the ereader market (it has roughly 25 %.
Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba were the initial players in this segment, and the ebook and
ereader markets have seen massive overhaul since then, and ebooks and other digital content are a thriving business in Japan.
And as for Amazon, personally I could care less if they abandon
the eReader market as they refuse to build anything bigger then a 6 ″ Kindle anyway.