Some newspaper and magazine companies, feeling let down by the Kindle electronic reader from Amazon.com Inc.
The popular electronic reader, the Kindle, was introduced less than six years ago.
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The social publishing startup launched a feature Wednesday that lets users zap reading material to their electronic reader or smartphone.
Sony was interested in using E Ink screens in an electronic reader.
The group gathered to watch Steve Cook drive his Chevrolet Astro van up to a judging platform with colored lights and electronic reader boards.
That's because, just two years after Amazon's Kindle kicked open the e-book category, consumers' attention span for yet another electronic reader launch looks to have waned.
When fish from Boston reach Newark, a clerk can--without even cracking open the bay door--wave an electronic reader and learn whether the fish got too warm en route.
Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.
The startup wants to turn almost everything with a display into an electronic document reader.
Bob Morris, ARM's director of mobile computing, says his company is tracking about 40 tablet-style devices being designed with ARM-based chips, plus about 10 more e-reader devices for electronic books.
Glassbook Reader: This free reader lets you read electronic books on your notebook or desktop PC.
It's going to be the first time, staying with our accessibility and transparency, it will be available in electronic form for your Kindle and your Sony Reader and whatever.
Even with its outsized price, the new iRex reader won't offer two features also missing from other electronic books: color and video capability.
Bookeen's Cybook Opus is now definitely the best eBook Reader of its kind: thanks to the very latest E-Ink electronic ink technology, its screen offers the most comfortable reading experience, comparable to paper.
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It also enables users to carry multiple books, all in electronic form, at the same time and read them wherever they want, while at the same time providing the reader some privacy from their surroundings.
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