Kobo chose to tailor its tablet to book readers in response to research showing that users who read on dedicated readers consume five times as many books as those who read on tablets.
FORBES: Beyond Borders: Kobo Moves On With New E-Readers And Indie Bookstores Pact
Currently 28% of Americans age 18 and older own at least one tablet or an e-book reader.
It also comes with a mess of features, some of which are too tablet-like for my book experience.
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.
When I read a Kindle book on my tablet, I often notice how poor the actual content design tends to be, ignoring the rich controls and interactive possibilities that you get in a digital format.
FORBES: The New Stage for Business Thought Leadership Writing
Years later, Apple realized the potential of the e-book format with the tablet computer.
FORBES: Shooting the Proscenium Arch: How People Fail to Realize Technology's Potential
Rather than write a number of separate articles, I plan to periodically release an updated e-book that you can download to your tablet or other device and read at your leisure.
And tablet computers, GPS navigation devices and e-book readers.
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).
FORBES: Who Reads the Most in the US? The Answer Might Surprise You
While I might not be able to get my 60-year-old mom to play Infinity Blade on her tablet, I could probably get her to read the book and she could enjoy the universe that way.
Book people want it to be less like a tablet, tablet people want to play Angry Birds.
The company announced that the SanDisk U100 SSD is being used by ASUS in the ASUS Transformer Book, the world's first notebook with a detachable tablet.
ENGADGET: SanDisk releases Ultra Plus and X110 SSDs with speed on a budget
The HarperCollins negotiations with Apple represent a direct challenge to Amazon, which dominates the fast-growing e-book market but which could face significant competition from an Apple tablet.
She said the popularity of e-readers and tablet computers as Christmas presents had also helped to make January Surrey's busiest e-book month so far, with 2, 469 e-book loans.
To take advantage of large and extra large, high-resolution Android tablet screens, NOOK for Android now offers customers an optimized library grid view and reading experience with enhanced book margins and line spacing, as well as an improved shopping experience and more.
ENGADGET: Barnes and Noble's Nook Android app now supports magazines, tablets, your Cosmo obsession
应用推荐