Most people Welding thin, white Kindle electronic book reader probably springs to mind, thinking. But this may be about to change.E-readers a waterfall this year, with touch-sensitive navigation and video chat features such as gray-scale screens to the market far beyond the device to receive - and possibly lowering prices, too.
These mobile phones and other gadgets such as tablet computers, such as people dive into their favorite books to give more options for going on. Perhaps the only negative about a company belonging to an e-reader does not enter the purchased may be alarming.
This week, nearly two dozen companies to make devices or reading materials delivered to the International Consumer Electronics Show, a section devoted to this e-book products that are showing for the first time.
E-book company to reach mainstream status as a signal of hope for good, they like Las Vegas Convention Center and most Microsoft Corp. by Amazon is not even in the exhibition have inherited are clustered in a prime location.
E-books that make up a very small fraction of book sales, but popularity is growing rapidly. Consumer Electronics Association, the trade fair earlier, 2.2 million e-readers were shipped to stores in 2009, nearly four times the year, according to organize. This year, the group expects 5 million will be sold.
"This incredible growth of the category," Jason Oxman, vice president, said the electronics association industry relations.
E-readers from Sony and other companies make impulse purchases more easily around the Amazon Kindle in 2007 and published before, but the first was presented Kindle wireless book downloads.
Since the $ 399 Kindle, Amazon, and that approximately $ 10 to $ 259 price drop, for each book buyers with the new version of cheap materials, such as certificates tucked entered. Christmas Day, Amazon E-first time sold more copies than the physical book.
, Barnes & Noble to hold the output, and Sony Corp. for its $ 259 Corner play in it with readers, entry-level model has remained $ 200. Each one has a relatively small number Exclusives offers hundreds of thousands of books - publishers showed little interest on the favor to another device.
Now other companies are getting in the game. Samsung Electronics Co., phones and TVs in the U.S. the leading producer, will launch this year, an e-reader.
Interead Ltd is already $ 249 device called COOL-ER sale and trade show two new models: a smaller, compact and lightweight version of the touch screen model called Interead books online store called Connect can be downloaded if the user Wi-Fi hot spot.
Also plans to start in the first quarter Interead. At the same time a "3G" cellular network access, Wi-Fi roll out a model for use at outside locations, summer plans.
Entourage Systems Inc., two screens - 10.1-inch color touch screen has the right and fair de-black-9.7 inches and the left-and-white screen is showing off $ 490 e-reader. This is controlled with the stylus.
Corner, such as Entourage's device, EDGE, Google Inc. s Android operating software works, therefore, to browse the Web and watch videos on a color display can be also. Even a small camera will be video chatting.
Wi-Fi Entourage e-store customers and the company will be able to buy books through the service with a wireless carrier is waiting for a version. EDGE is expected to ship to customers in February.
Small version of the Kindle costs twice what price. But Doug Atkinson, vice president of marketing and business development Entourage's because it combines Web browsing and reading people to believe that the company withdrew the device.
Success in this market, but more may require a specific device sales. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony, for example, but also for people in other devices like iPhone to sell electronic books to read.
If the most popular reading device, a tablet-style computers such as Apple was expected to say this year comes to pass, this company provides a way to profit.
Another company that hedging bets in this way skiff LLC, e-media holding company of reading developed by the Hearst Corp. is hoping a funnel device for content from various manufacturers.
In the pages of a book because we are accustomed to seeing a more complex text layout is one column I am trying to newspapers and magazines skiff good e-reader - which is difficult to look focused. Skiff plans to add the ads.
First product skiff, skiff Reader, a 11.5 in., skiff can also download materials from the online store will have a gray-scale touch screen. Companies that are common to Spring Nextel Corp., and wireless delivery. But has not announced a price or a skiff called the manufacturer of the device is expected to be released this year's.
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