We know our way around eBook readers and were one of
the few eReader companies who survived the massive flood of competition.
Not exact matches
I know Onyx has been selling large
eReaders for a
few years now but with the popularity and success of the Aura One, not to mention the new Sony DPT and
companies like Onyx now in the fold with their larger offerings, I can't imagine Amazon not releasing a larger Kindle for their anniversary.
Elonex is a UK electronics
company that has had a
few different
ereaders on the market over the past 2 years, and they just released another one, the Elonex 500EB, a color
ereader and multimedia player rolled into one.
There are a
few threats — multi-purpose devices becoming much better for reading, multi-purpose devices becoming much cheaper, Publishers choking off the supply of ebooks, the major
eReader companies collapsing.
It does, however, promise to provide a
few things we haven't seen before in
eReaders — lots of individual developers and
companies of all sizes offering new features to users, attempts to expand the usefulness of the Kindle without taking away too much from the focus on reading, use of the wireless for features other than book downloads and basic browsing, the ability to cater to the needs of specific demographics, personalization and customization.
Kobo is a
company that joined a
few years late and that has perhaps 1 % market share — It's absurd for Kobo to be claiming credit for what's going on with
eReaders and eBooks.
«With
few companies willing to bid on Borders during the bankruptcy, markets agree that the bookstore industry is shifting into a more technology driven environment with online sales and
ereaders,» Mary Gotaas, an analyst at Santa Monica, California - based market - research firm IBISWorld, said in an e-mailed statement.
The screen tech
company has reported a marked drop in income, indicating that
fewer ereaders were being made this year than last.
The emergence of ePub as the alternative to the Kindle, the entry of so many
eReader companies, and the gradual change in mindsets certainly points to a time when a lot more than a
few hundred, or even a
few thousand, authors can make a good living from writing.
The
company's troubled
ereader devices received a needed and surprising refresh with the NOOK Tablet 7, a 7 - inch tablet with a $ 50 price tag unveiled just a
few months ago.
Amazon has cornered the
eReader market with the Kindle: The
company unveiled a
few refreshed devices in September, just a month after reports indicated Amazon would sell $ 4.5 billion worth of
eReaders this year.
The
company's troubled
ereader devices received a needed and surprising refresh with the NOOK Tablet 7, a 7 - inch tablet with a $ 50 price tag unveiled just a
few months ago.