I could understand that Amazon and
other eBook manufacturers might not have wanted to include full hyphenation in their devices because the dictionaries necessary to do so might have bloated the firmware, while the actual look - up might have slowed down the page display.
Not exact matches
The
other different pure
ebook reader
manufacturers include Pandigital which got 16.1 % of market share, Barnes and Noble got 15.4 % of the total share followed by
other manufacturer Sony, Hanvon and
others.
In such a context, Amazon is more insulated than
other ebook reader
manufacturers, because the giant bookseller can recoup some of its losses through the huge sales generated from
ebooks and
other content available through its online store.
iSuppli also notes Amazon is more insulated than
other ebook reader
manufacturers because it can recoup its losses through sales generated from
ebooks and
other content available on its online store.
ND: A unified
ebook standard embraced by all e-reader
manufacturers, top - notch publishing tools that embrace that standard, and a community that cares more about what we're saying to each
other than the best ways to turn discourse into a numbers game.
The proposal was to get together a «starter» list of, say, 800-1000 quality commercial New Zealand titles, to create them in a simple and inexpensive way through bulk - buying of
ebook production services (particularly for indie publishers, the major publishers already have a lot of
ebook inventory), and to market them as a package to early market makers such as e-reader device
manufacturers,
ebook retailers, libraries, and
others.
Second, since it's the best
ebook reader, it puts a lot of pressure on Amazon, Sony and
other ebook reader
manufacturers to follow suit.
One year ago I believed and I still do that if someone were to dethrone Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as
eBook leader, it would be Google and not
other eInk reader
manufacturers and definitely not Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
While catching up with Amazon's Kindle
eBook reader is quite a tough task for any company involved in the portable
eBook reader's market that's not stopping various
other manufacturers from trying, the latest to unveil such a product being Pandigital, who's upgraded its Novel series of eReaders featuring the integrated Barnes & Noble eBookstore with the Personal eReader model.