Sony has introduced an e-book reader that uses electrophoretic materials to provide a high-resolution, high-contrast display.
Currently 28% of Americans age 18 and older own at least one tablet or an e-book reader.
The company has spent heavily on promoting its e-book reader, the Nook, and e-book sales in its stores.
Amazon has just unveiled a new, larger version of the Kindle, its e-book reader, better suited to displaying newspapers.
The Reader Daily Edition is the third new e-book reader the company has introduced in the last few weeks.
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The display self-adjusts to become an ultra-high contrast e-book reader in bright sunlight, and a bright full-color backlit display in normal light.
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Can Barnes and Noble or Sony really take a bite out of the e-book reader market by dethroning the iPad or the Kindle?
As for the original bookstore chain, its chairman, Leonard Riggio earlier this year said he wanted to buy its 700-strong chain himself, but not the e-book reader.
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Forrester says the e-book reader market will grow to 15.5 million units in the U.S. this year, up from an estimated 10.3 million units in 2010.
The tiny super-computer also boasts an impressive array of mega-hot software like Word, Excel, a picture browser, an e-book reader, paint brush -- the list literally goes on and on.
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However, the same customer most likely was on the Facebook page, and before that did a Google search, clicked on an ad, maybe interacted through an e-book reader or tablet.
As well as being used for in-store signage, E Ink's technology powers Sony's e-book reader, and in April, Seiko, a watchmaker, unveiled a digital watch built around an E Ink display.
Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader.
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The Kindle should be a pretty straight forward proposition, but this just goes to show you how sometimes folks can stir up controversy even with something as innocuous as an e-book reader.
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Sony's move is also seen as a response to the widely perceived success of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader - although so far the online store has declined to reveal how many devices it has sold.
Amazon had been hoping to target the market with its 9.7-inch screen Kindle DX e-book reader, for example, but schools said the device wasn't sufficiently interactive and lacked basics such as page numbers and color graphics.
Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).
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At ant rate, glitch or hoax or real, this is a reminder that many commentators believe that the new, smaller iPad ( Mini, Air or just iPad) will be presented with a heavy emphasis on its book reader capabilities.
"If the newspaper has one reader, and the book store has another reader and the magazine publisher has another reader, it just doesn't make any sense, " he said.
Travelling through the book, the reader is introduced to a range of character studies complemented by descriptions of real people, including Marilyn Monroe, whose early sorrows blighted the rest of her life.
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Why can I read this book on one eBook reader and not another when it costs the same as a physical book?
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Indeed, the two have already written a book for the general reader outlining their model, Endless Universe, which includes the notion that the universe is the product of a collision between multi-dimensional membranes.
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When the company reported on Wednesday that e-book and e-reader sales were up 30% over last year and that pre-orders for the new line of Nook e-readers were up 240% over past versions of the device, shares jumped.
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Toronto-based Kobo, the e-reader and digital book company, is one of the first users of Rypple Flow.
Hildick-Smith explained that a book purchase has three meaningful components: availability of the book, discovery by the reader, and conversion to purchase.
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Quietly ambitious, it is a book that stays in the reader's mind.
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