The Nook competes against Amazon's Kindle e-reader, as well as Apple and Google in the e-book market.
There has been speculation on and off about a free e-reader hitting the market for years.
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Many other smaller players in the e-reader market would further increase pressure on the Kindle.
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Amazon's second-generation e-reader is easy on the eyes, long on battery life, and so on.
It's a small detail, and if it were absent, it wouldn't detract from the e-reader.
Since then, the e-reader has become more of a mainstay especially for travelers and commuters.
At that price, nearly everyone who reads would consider buying an e-reader, contends Burchers.
E-reader sales will double this year, with more than 16.5 million units being shipped.
The biggest functional improvement in Amazon's e-reader may, in fact, have been a gradual one.
Pricing pressure aside, Mish says the recent changes should ultimately benefit the e-reader industry.
Last week Plastic Logic announced that it will never sell a Que e-reader.
The same goes for Plastic Logic, which has developed a high-end e-reader meant to replace paper.
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Among other findings from the latest Outsell study, "Device Wars, ": a possible shift in the e-reader market.
The reader had an interactive note pad on one side and the e-reader on the other side.
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With a track record of technology innovations, he developed an e-reader years before the iPad and Kindle.
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The more flexible layout allows employees to easily replace a netbook with an e-reader or a tablet.
The underlying platform is really the true make-it-or-break-it feature of any e-reader, and Amazon has this dialed.
And, of course, the iPad weighs very little, especially the new Mini, and is a good e-reader.
For a real-world example of the effect of lower search costs, think of today's e-reader price wars.
But Yota is working on dynamic apps like an e-reader and email notification system for the back screen.
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Amazon's move paves the way for it to launch its Kindle e-reader devices in the country, analysts predict.
In addition, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet has arrived at the FCC from Asia, a large Linux-based e-reader.
More recently, Amazon has taken advantage of the shift to digitization by developing and launching its Kindle e-reader.
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That's where iRex could take a lesson: A good e-reader doesn't need to show off--it needs to disappear.
"The trouble comes when you start to think of your e-reader as more than an e-reader, " he wrote.
Some are skeptical of even Forrester's projections, given that no e-reader manufacturers will reveal their total sales numbers.
Owners of Amazon's Kindle e-reader are constantly on the lookout for new reading material, especially if it's free.
Toronto-based Kobo, the e-reader and digital book company, is one of the first users of Rypple Flow.
Amazon, buoyed by the success of its Kindle e-reader, is expected to launch an Android tablet within weeks.
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